Plan the Strategy for Collections and Program Advertisements

The Office XP package definition file creates the Microsoft Office XP Applications 10.0 English package, a package that contains eight previously created programs. These programs are templates to deliver Office XP to different clients or under different situations. With SMS 2003, you can create collections based on whether or not clients need the SFU, and advertise the appropriate programs to each collection. For example, you might want to create collections as shown in Table A.5.

Table A.5 Collections Based on SFU Requirement

Then you can advertise the appropriate programs to each collection, as shown in Table A.6.

Table A.6 Target Collections

Note

• The Office Setup command line with the SFU runs successfully on computers that do not require the SFU. SFU installation does not occur, but those computers still restart. To make the deployment simpler, you can target all computers by using the SFU and restart instructions in the program. Installation is successful on all clients that can install Office XP. However, clients that did not require the SFU are restarted, even though a restart was not required.

The following table describes how each SMS program included in the package definition file installs the SFU on the supported operating systems, where:

Targeted indicates that the client receives the program advertisement.

Not targeted indicates that the client does not receive the program advertisement.

Fails indicates that the Office XP installation fails.

Table A.7 Office XP Programs to Use with Each Supported Operating System

1. User logging on after the SFU restart does not have local Administrator rights on the client.

2. User logging on after the SFU restart has local Administrator rights on the client.

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