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CSUEB Deployment Plan for Office 2007 and Vista
Office 2007 Enterprise and Windows Vista Enterprise will be deployed to the campus community starting this year. Due to the major changes between these new versions and previous versions of the Microsoft products (Office 2003 and Windows XP), there are some compatibility and configuration issues that need to be addressed. Therefore, ITS is strategically planning a deployment schedule which includes testing, access to documentation and training resources. Please see the tables below for details on the gradual roll-out schedule.
Since most CSUEB faculty need to work from home as well as from campus, ITS will centrally fund Work-At-Home licenses for faculty. Administrative departments may a choose to fund for staff who also need to work from home. For more information about Work-At-Home (WAH) go to the WAH website.
Note on Office 2007:
Files that are saved in Office 2007 are saved in a different format than older versions of Office. For example a Word 2003 file named test would be saved as test.doc while a Word 2007 file named test would be saved as test.docx. You can download the Compatibility Pack for Office 2007 which allows users on older versions of Office to view Office 2007 files. During the transition period those who are using Office 2007 can save their files in the older 97-2003 format so it’ll be easier to share files.
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Microsoft Office 2007 Deployment |
March 2007 – May 2007 |
ITS staff will install and begin testing new suite to get familiar with the product. |
May 2007 – July 2007 |
The Compatibility Pack will be installed on Windows computers on campus.
Office 2007 will be available for staff and faculty who request it but there will be limited, best-effort support for the suite. |
August 2007 -October 2007 |
Training for Office 2007 will be available to the campus community (online, through documentation, workshops). Monthly workshops in Excel and Word will offered in the Fall and as needed. |
October 2007 |
Office 2007 will be available for installation on University computers. |
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Microsoft Windows Vista Deployment |
February 2007 – March 2007 |
KMS server installed. 25 Vista machines activate the server. |
April 2007 |
ITS staff will install and begin testing Vista to get familiar with the product. |
July 2007 – December 2007 |
ITS staff will setup Vista with standard CSUEB software on it for testing. Test machine will be made available for faculty and staff who need to check compatibility with specialized software.
ITS will convene a Vista test committee that will work to solve compatibility issues and share resources. The committee will post findings and issues online for the campus community. (on-going)
Support for Vista will be limited. |
February 2008 – April 2008 |
ITS staff will be trained on managing and supporting Vista |
June 2008 – December 2008 |
ITS Staff will test application compatibility with Vista.
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January 2009 - June 2009 |
Vista will be available for installation on University owned Vista ready computers subject to compatibility with University applications and systems.
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Microsoft training links for Office 2007:
Access 2007
Excel 2007
Outlook 2007
Powerpoint 2007
Word 2007
Microsoft training links for Vista:
Desktop Basics Demo
Keyboard Shortcuts
Tips and Tricks
Link to the CSUEB Vista Committee findings (coming soon)
Email ITS Help Desk or call the ATSC at ext. 5-ATSC (x. 5-2872)
Last updated
01/31/2008
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