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Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / January 2007Running Office 2004 with network homes on 10.4
Hi. Im really at the end of my tether with office now, for well over a year it seems as though no matter what I do office just behaves like a spoilt brat. Were talking 10-20 minute load times just to load an office app. It will sit there and first it say configuring microsoft office components. then through a host of other things until eventually as i said about 20 minutes later it will actually open. I've seen things about fonts before, but i can tell its not just (if at all) this. I have a reasonably fast network, so i cant see how it is network issues. All clients have network homes, so i am guessing it is something to do with this and perhaps files are not being put in the right place or something? I would really appreciate it just somebody out there could point me in the direction of whats going wrong here. Yours in desperation Brad Holland I'm sure there are a number of people ready willing & able to help, but you have to give them something to work with: What *version* of Office? What version of Mac OS? What type of Mac(s)? System specs. What does "host of other things" mean? "...no matter what I do..." includes *what*? The symptoms you describe can be caused by any number (or combination) of issues, but you need to share more specifics before anyone can offer a meaningful reply. Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac > Hi. > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Yours in desperation > Brad Holland Hi Bob, Ok so Its Office 2004 with the latest updates that I could download. Were talking about Mac OS 10.4.8 Server and clients. It basically configures each time the client machine runs an office app, subsequent logins are ok, but If the same user logs on to a different machine and tries then to log back into their original machine then it re-configures everything again. It doesnt do the font install, rather sits there configuring excel, word, powerpoint, ole stuff and well Im sure you get the picture! That part of the process can take 15 - 20 minutes. I tried the following. After creating a new user, I ran office and then dumped all the plist files and relevant microsoft stuff i could find and i then put that into my english.lproj folder on the server so that subsequent users I created already had this stuff in their homefolders. I have also tried a little app called network home redirector, again to no avail. Hope this info is enough, I was tired and frustrated yesterday, its taking its toll! Regards, Brad On Jan 30, 6:02 pm, CyberTaz <Cyber...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I'm sure there are a number of people ready willing & able to help, but you > have to give them something to work with: [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > Yours in desperation > > Brad Holland Hi Brad - Thanks for the additional info - at the very least it's enough to confirm that the matter is a little out of my personal realm, as I haven't been directly involved with Mac networking since pre-OS X & haven't used Server at all. However, there are several in the group who do have extensive knowledge & experience in that arena & I'm sure at least one of them will pick up the thread before long... If not I'll try to direct them to it. The issue sounds familiar, but it's pointless for me to get further involved in something of which I'm honestly unsure - you no doubt would prefer (and deserve) more than just a "lucky guess" anyway:) Regards |:>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 1/31/07 4:40 AM, in article 1170236450.311071.148480@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, > Hi Bob, > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] >>> Yours in desperation >>> Brad Holland Bob, i appreciate your honesty in this matter, refreshing that someone can actually be honest rather than leading someone on a wild goose chase or providing purely subjective comments to make themselves look good. Hopefully these people you mentioned will pick up my distress call and i will hear from them soon. Take Care, brad > Hi Brad - > [quoted text clipped - 94 lines] > >>> Yours in desperation > >>> Brad Holland |
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