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Join our two-part Desktop Deployment: Planning, Deploying, and Managing Office 2007 Labcast to learn about new tools and technologies to deploy the 2007 Microsoft® Office system. 

During these sessions, you will receive practical technical information and proven techniques to help simply your 2007 Office deployment.  Click here for more information about the 2007 Office labcast series.

Part 1 of 2 – Topics covered include:

• Deploying the 2007 Microsoft Office system with the Deployment Workbench
• Add the 2007 Office system to the Deployment Workbench
• Perform multi-language integration
• Learn about the Office Customization Tool (OCT)
• Use SMS 2003 for 2007 Office system deployment

Part 2 of 2 – Topics covered include:

• 2007 Microsoft Office system Planning and Migration Tools: Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM)
• Install and configure OMPM
• Perform a scan on a user system
• Convert documents with no issues to the new file formats
• Managing the 2007 Microsoft Office system with Group Policy
• Import the new Group Policy Administrative Templates for the 2007 Office release
• Use Group Policy to configure the Default File Save options in the 2007 Office release
• Use Group Policy to configure the Default File Save options for Office 2003 (to support a mixed Office environment)

REGISTRATION:
Register soon – capacity is limited because of the usage of virtual machines.

Part 1 – Click a date and time to register

• October 21, 2008 at 9:00 A.M. (Pacific Time Zone)
• October 21, 2008 at 1 P.M. (Pacific Time Zone)
• October 14, 2008 at 9 A.M. (Central Time Zone)
• October 14, 2008 at 1 P.M. (Central Time Zone)

Part 2 – Click a date and time to register

• October 23, 2008 at 8:30 A.M. (Pacific Time Zone)
• October 23, 2008 at 1 P.M. (Pacific Time Zone)
• October 16, 2008 at 8:30 A.M. (Central Time Zone)
• October 16, 2008 at 1 P.M. (Central Time Zone)