Re: Office Install

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 07/12/05 

Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:10:54 -0700

This is a permissions issue. Make sure that the links (in the account's
profile .\desktop folder have grants to the account rather than to the
Administrators group). I am not sure about the parts of Outlook that
did not work, but again, the cause is likely the same, that there needs
to be a grant to such as Users or the account rather than to the group
Administrators. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
"Kirk Bay" <KirkBay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8E342361-E4A1-44B5-93E6-05F69718F46F@microsoft.com...
> Office 2003 on XP Pro.
>
> On the machines I've changed, I moved the user from the local admin group
to
> the user group. When i did this, all office, and most other, shortcuts on
the
> desktop changed icons to the generic, unknown, icon.
>
> In addition, certain parts (can't remember which at the moment) of Outlook
> failed to work correctly until we put the user account back in the admin
> group.
>
> "Roger Abell" wrote:
>
> > The Lanwench is right on about needing to know the version of Office,
> > as Office 2000 was in some ways fairly brain-dead about running as
> > a plain user.
> >
> > Other than that you mostly answered your own question when you said
> > > change permissions without breaking the whole thing
> > IOW, you are changing the memberships of the accounts, so in order to
> > keep from breaking things you need to make sure that the permissions
> > on them grant Users group what is needed instead of only granting to
> > Administrators group.
> > For a shortcut this would be both the shortcut lnk itself and what it
> > targets.
> >
> > -- 
> > Roger Abell
> > Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
> >
> > "Kirk Bay" <KirkBay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:F566BBDD-A2BF-46FA-A93D-875136061930@microsoft.com...
> > > I work in an organization where all users are local admins are their
PC's
> > > (all running XP Pro).
> > >
> > > We're in the process of changing the security model so that the user's
> > will
> > > have user access rather than administrator. One big problem we've hit
so
> > far
> > > is that changing the user's permissons breaks all shortcuts and in
some
> > cases
> > > access to the apps altogether.
> > >
> > > Our biggest application concern in MS Office. Anybody know of a way to
> > > change permissions without breaking the whole thing.
> > >
> > > Thx
> > >
> > > Kirk
> > >
> >
> >
> >

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