Brian Madden Logo
Your independent source for application and desktop virtualization.
Discussion Forums » Tech Support Forums » Citrix XenApp / Presentation Server » Office 2007 conversion pack
Marketplace

advertisement

Office 2007 conversion pack, in the Citrix XenApp / Presentation Server forum on BrianMadden.com

rated by 0 users
Not Answered This post has 0 verified answers | 5 Replies | 0 Followers

Top 500 Contributor
Points 425
Bruce Bodart posted on 10-12-2007 3:20 PM
hello,

Has anyone used the Office 2007 conversion Pack for Office 2003?

Have new 4.5 farm setup with Office 2003 SP2. Have need told that we are getting Office 2007 files from customers. We are not ready to go to Office 2007 yet for our end-user base. I was looking to put the conversion pack on my servers.

Anyone put it on, any gotcha's or problems?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Bruce

All Replies

Top 25 Contributor
Points 4,662
Reply
Ryan Campbell replied on 10-12-2007 4:31 PM
Rolled it out on my 4.0 farm just recently, no problems to speak of, pretty simple actually.
Ryan
  • | Post Points: 20
Top 500 Contributor
Points 425
Reply
Bruce Bodart replied on 10-12-2007 4:42 PM
Ryan,

yes it looks pretty simple. I did put it on my desktop but not on my servers yet.

I ran across this:
http://support.citrix.com/forums/thread.jspa?forumID=62&threadID=90965&tstart=15

That is why I posted the question.

Do you publish just the applications or do you publish a desktop?

All my end-users are on Wyse 1125 or S10's with a published desktop.

I am trying to make my new farm deployment an smooth as possible.

thanks for the reply.
Bruce
  • | Post Points: 20
Top 500 Contributor
Points 515
Reply
Andy Eccles replied on 10-14-2007 2:33 AM
Hi Bruce

I have it on two customer's sites, about 20 servers in total between them, and no issues of any kind. I think the file association *does* come up as 'Microsoft XML document format' or similar, as mentioned in that Citrix support forum post, but that is the format of Office2007 docs!

Both of these sites use published apps, not desktops. One has several language MUI packs installed for Office and they work with the compatibility pack too.

Cheers
Andy
  • | Post Points: 20
Top 500 Contributor
Points 425
Reply
Bruce Bodart replied on 10-15-2007 9:15 AM
Thanks for the info.

I am going to install it today. from testing it seems like no big deal but until I get some end-users really using it I wont know for sure.

thanks again.
Bruce
  • | Post Points: 20
Top 25 Contributor
Points 4,662
Reply
Ryan Campbell replied on 10-15-2007 4:44 PM
Did run into an interesting one with some of the new PPT extensions with the FTA's not set by default. I opened a case with MS on it and was basically told that was by design? Who knows why that would be but I added a reg script to my install to assoc the file types upon install.

.potx, .potm, and .potmhtml files do not get associated with Powerpoint.

Also make sure you have the latest version of the converter pack.
Ryan
  • | Post Points: 5
Page 1 of 1 (6 items) | RSS
Copyright © 1997-2008 The Brian Madden Company, LLC | Disclosures | Privacy | Terms of Use | Contact Info