Deploying Office 2003 on a Terminal/Citrix Server
These are the correct proceedures for creating an MST file for deployment of Office 2003 on a Terminal/Citrix Server.
To prevent CTFMON from
running refer to the following
KB article:
How to turn off the speech
recognition and the handwriting
recognition features in
Office 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823586
Ctfmon.exe activates the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (TIP) and the Microsoft Office Language Bar. It monitors the active windows and provides text input service support for speech recognition, handwriting recognition, keyboard, translation, and other alternative user input technologies.
This is typically not needed in a Terminal/Citrix Server environment. Furthermore, the CTFMON.exe process runs in every session, therefore using a lot of extra resources (memory).
From experience, I have seen Ctfmon cause problems with other applications.
Microsoft Photo Editor is no longer included (supported) with Office 2003. Office 2003 includes Microsoft Office Picture Manager, but this has limitations and issues of its own when it comes to editing/resizing pictures (photos). So make sure you remove Microsoft Office Picture Manager. If possible, use a 3rd party tool such as Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/) instead. Otherwise refer to Microsoft KB article 817095 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817095), which will explain how to deploy Photo Editor from your Office XP installation source.
However, if you do not need to edit/resize pictutures (photos), use the default Operating System viewers.
The default Image viewers are:
- Windows 2000: Kodak Imaging
- Windows XP/2003: Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional SP2 Components that are disabled by the MST:
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office Excel
X Text To Speech
Microsoft Office Outlook
Microsoft Office PowerPoint
X Animation Sound Effects
X Microsoft Office Publisher
X Microsoft Office InfoPath
Office Shared Featues
Alternate User Input
X Speech
X Handwriting
X Microsoft Handwriting Component
International Support
X Universal Font
X Syriac Font
X Office Assistant
X New and Open Office Document Shortcuts
Proofing Tools
French
X English - French Translation
Spanish
X English - Spanish Translation
Office Tools
X Microsoft Office Picture Manager
HTML Source Editing
Web Scripting
X Web Debugging
Remove the following Microsoft Office Tools shortcuts:
- Digital Certificate for VBA Projects
- Microsoft Clip Organizer
- Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings
- Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard
- Microsoft Office Access Snapshot Viewer
- Microsoft Office Application Recovery
- Microsoft Office Document Imaging
- Microsoft Office Document Scanning
- Microsoft Office Picture Manager
NOTE: If you are installing Microsoft Office Outlook, be sure to add the Collaboration Data Objects component. This seems to be a requirement for many of todays modern applications that integrate with the Outlook/Exchange messaging components.
To Install run...
"\\server\share$\Microsoft\Office
2003 SP2\setup.exe
TRANSFORMS="\\server\share$\Microsoft\Office
2003 SP2\setupts.mst" /qb-
or
msiexec /i "\\server\share$\Microsoft\Office
2003 SP2\PRO11.MSI" TRANSFORMS="\\server\share$\Microsoft\Office
2003 SP2\setupts.mst" /qb-
