MS Office 2010

Detect, what Service Pack is installed

File -> Help -> Version -> Additional Version Information:

... SP1 ...

(only at Addition Version Information not at normal Version)

or

• Version >= 14.0.7015.1000 => MS Office 2010 SP2
• Version >= 14.0.6023.1000 => MS Office 2010 SP1

see

• ​http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687455/en-us
• ​http://geekswithblogs.net/ChrisHeacock/archive/2011/06/30/verifying-office-2010-sp1-installation.aspx

Installation Order for MS Office in English and German

• full-de
• languagepack-en
• sp1-de
• languagepack-sp1-en

or

• full-sp1-en
• languagepack-de
• languagepack-de-sp1

Silent Install

MS Office Customization Tool

create custom MSP file:

setup.exe /admin

Install Custom Settings

setup.exe /adminfile msoffice2010-custom.msp

Activation

[DosInAnIcon_activate]
cscript "$InstallDir32$\ospp.vbs" /osppsvcrestart
cscript "$InstallDir32$\ospp.vbs" /inpkey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
cscript "$InstallDir32$\ospp.vbs" /act
cscript "$InstallDir32$\ospp.vbs" /dstatus

Normal.dotx: Global Word Template

By registry key it is possible to define a SharedTemplates directory, which Word uses to search its Normal.dotx file.

For detailed information, take a look at ​http://www.wordarticles.com/Articles/Templates/Normal.php

Lets assume, to set it to c:\templates:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\General]
"SharedTemplates" = REG_EXPAND_SZ:"c:\templates"

It is also required to set Beginning with MS Office 2010, starting Word results in migrating the Normal.dotx and renaming the original file. To prevent this, following registy key must be set:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Options]
"MigrateNormalOnFirstBoot"=REG_dword:00000001

Word will use c:\templates\normal.dotx if

• SharedTemplates is defined in the registry
• there is no file %AppdataDir%\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dotx

If Word modifies Normal.dotx, it will overwrite c:\templates\normal.dotx. If this file/directory is write protected (which is a good idea for a global template), Word will ask for an alternate location to store this file.

If the user chooses a file name different to %AppdataDir%\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dotx, this new Normal.dotx habe limited influence. To archive the assumed behavior, the user has to select the path %AppdataDir%\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dotx. At the next start of Word, this modified Normal.dotx is taken as default.

Default Fonts

• ​http://blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/archive/2009/04/24/how-to-deploy-specific-fonts-in-office-2007.aspx