Office 2010 and laptops/netbooks

[Leethenewf]

So, I am planning on pushing Office 2010 to our computers. The issue I am foreseeing is....we are a school board that has a number of laptops and netbooks for students. Generally, they stay on for an hour at a time at most. Some are 20-30 minutes or less. So, what can I do to ensure the application gets installed properly even when the laptops keeps getting turned off before the install finish's???

[Jeremy]

vb script the install and display a "installing office 2010... do not shut down" message

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Configure the install with Display level set to Basic and select Supress Modal. This will display the installation status bar.

 

Are you saying that people will turn off the laptop in the middle of the install or that it will just loose network connectivity?

 

You can set the advertisement to Download the content from the distribution point to ensure that the package is run locally wether or not the laptop is on the network.

 

I just completed an Office 2010 deployment and had a 97% success rate. I found in most cases that people were excited to receive an Office upgrade and wanted to make sure it finished.

 

Hope that helps a little...