Re: Office 2003 Setup
From: Popeye (Popeye_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/18/05
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:01:01 -0800
Hi
Thank you for both responses. I wasn't sure where to post this question in
the first place! The suggestion that you've made is logical and I'll get on
to it. I'm sure that I could use it for other programs, such as WinZip, to
determine which users can use them.
"Leythos" wrote:
> In article <537B515B-6C02-483E-AE4C-103837F0713D@microsoft.com>,
> Popeye@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> > Hello everyone
> >
> > I have XP Pro SP2 and have several accounts set up on my computer. There is
> > a mixture of Admin and Limited rights in additional to the pre-determined
> > Administrator and Guest accounts. How do I set it up to determine exactly
> > which users can have access to specific applications within Office?
> > For instance, I might want:
> >
> > User1 (Admin) to have access to Outlook and Word
> > User2 (Limited) to have access to Word and Excel
> > User3 (Limited) to have access to Excel and Outlook and
> > Guest (pre-determined Guest) to have access to Outlook
> >
> > I've tried installing as Administrator but can't use *anything* if logged on
> > as Guest or a user who doesn't have Admin rights. It stalls and says that
> > there's a problem with the Office Source Engine and to reinstall or repair.
> > I've done this but still can't access anything which does not have Admin
> > rights.
> >
> > Thanks in anticipation of a simple solution!
>
> Ha!
>
> If it were that simple it would be nice - With Office products that user
> must be a local administrator in order to use them the first time,
> sometimes after the initialization you can switch them to Users, but
> it's more hassle than it's worth - almost all systems that provide MS
> Office 2000/XP/2003 require that the users be Administrator level (like
> QuickBooks does) and even PowerUser don't provide enough access to allow
> everything to run.
>
> With that aside - you need to create local groups (assuming you're not
> in a domain) and then apply permission to the Executable files based on
> group membership - this means that you create a group called
> MS_Outlook_Users, MS_Word_Users.... Now, add in the people you want to
> being those groups, now right click on Outlook.exe and select
> Properties, then Security, then change the permissions so that EVERYONE
> is removed, and add in the GROUP you want to have access to it - make
> sure that you add in the Administrators group.... Do the same with the
> others.
>
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