[ms office - 2010] Changing settings for all users

[Micrawave]

Hi, newbie here (well lurker of several years, but my colleague who had an account here left for pastures new!)

 

We've got to use the EnlightKS system fro ECDL for a year, and I need to change the default settings for all the pupils across the network. Now yes, I can use a Group Policy, and that's the way I planned to do it. My Manager says No, she doesn't want any more Group Policies for some reason....

 

 

So any idea how to do this... how to change 3 settings in a Word 2010 document and fix those settings on that PC for anyone who logs into it, not just the admin account making the changes - and they are security/view type changes, not template related ones? All the stuff I find on the net points to Group Policies!

[HPlum78]

errr, GP is the way! anything else would just be another way to well group policy! I don't understand why you would not use/ add another policy to manage your office settings? I have worked on some big networks in and out of education and seen some big and i mean big group policy structures, one more/ add the setting to a default student policy that is already in use will not make any difference.

[PaulBM]

Office changes for ECDL, I've just been on the phone to EnlightKS. I asked for GPO settings for the three changes, but they do not have that information. Sadly it seems 'all installations are different and they cannot document every combination'.

 

After seaching through the GPOs, having added the Office and Word ADMX files, I've found two... so far. Untested at the time of writing, I'm still looking for the Status bar one.

 

User Config / Policies / Admin Templates / Microsoft Word 2010 / Word Options / Customise Ribbon / Display Developer tab in the Ribbon

 

User Config / Policies / Admin Templates / Microsoft Word 2010 / Word Options / Security / Trust Center / VBA Macro Notification Settings / Enable All (Not recommended)

[PaulBM]

It seems that the Section change to the Status Bar is a per user setting. Thankfully after a lot of searching I found a way to add Registry entries for every user to turn Sections on.

 

This site explains how to do it.

 

Deploying Custom Registry Settings for Office 2010 - The Deployment Guys - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

 

And finally... my allow PopUps in Chrome via GPO were not working either. Turns out the correct syntax for wildcards is [*.]enlight.net.

 

Just Java to sort now!

[Jaymate]

Hi Paul,

 

Just trying to do this ourselves - do you know which registry settings that you changed?

[PaulBM]

Here's the contents of our .reg file to turn on Sections in Word status bar. We did find that applying it via GPO was intermittent. Some we had to apply by hand.

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\User Settings\EPA_Settings]

"Count"=dword:00000001

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\User Settings\EPA_Settings\Create]

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\User Settings\EPA_Settings\Create\Software]

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\User Settings\EPA_Settings\Create\Software\Microsoft]

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\User Settings\EPA_Settings\Create\Software\Microsoft\Office]

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\User Settings\EPA_Settings\Create\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0]

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\User Settings\EPA_Settings\Create\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word]

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\User Settings\EPA_Settings\Create\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\StatusBar]

"Section"=dword:00000001

 

By the way, the 'EPA_Settings' part can be anything.