Office 2008 for Mac

Office 2008 Operations
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To access these settings, on the
Apple menu, click System Preferences, and then under Internet
& Network, click Network. On the Show pop-up menu, click the interface that you are
configuring.
Several tools are available that can be used to set system preferences on users' computers:
• Apple Workgroup Manager
• Apple Remote Desktop command-line interface
• AppleScript written to control the Mac OS X Terminal utility and deployed by using
Apple Remote Desktop. Terminal is located in /Applications/Utilities.
For information about Workgroup Manager, see Client Management
in the Mac OS X Server
area of the Apple Web site (www.apple.com/server). For detailed information about managing
preferences with Workgroup Manager, see the Mac OS X Server User Management
documentation available for download from the Apple Web site
(www.apple.com/server/documentation).
For an introduction to Apple Remote Desktop, see Apple Remote Desktop 3
on the Apple Web
site (www.apple.com/remotedesktop). For detailed information, see the Apple Remote Desktop
Administrator's Guide documentation available for download from the Resources page in the
same area of the Apple Web site.
For information about the Terminal utility, see Terminal Help.
Distributing Office 2008 product updates
You can configure Microsoft AutoUpdate for installing updates automatically at scheduled
intervals from a central location. The changes that you make to AutoUpdate configuration is
stored in /Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist. For information
about planning your Office 2008 product updates, see Planning for Office 2008 product
updates in
the Office 2008 Planning section. For more information about configuring AutoUpdate
preferences, see Configuring AutoUpdate for Office 2008
in the Office 2008 Deployment section.
After you configure your preferences in the com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist file, you can deploy
your preferences to user computers by using Apple Remote Desktop or Workgroup Manager.
Perform the following steps to distribute product updates.