Deployment Resources

Microsoft provides a broad array of resources to help IT professionals deploy Office 2000 more easily and efficiently. The resources available from this page are divided into the following sections:

• The Basics
• Beyond the Basics
• Deployment Tools
• Early Experiences

The Basics

Start by reading these essential deployment white papers.

Find a detailed examination of new features in Office 2000 that reduce cost of ownership by making Office easier for large organizations to install and support.

Read a deployment scenario that encompasses a wide variety of hardware and user requirements. Then read about other Office 2000 deployments in the Early Experiences section below.

Find out how Microsoft Systems Management Server simplifies deploying Office 2000 in a client/server environment.

See how Office 2000 runs in a terminal-based environment with the help of Microsoft Windows NT® Terminal Server.

Beyond the Basics

Take our guided tours and read white papers with detailed deployment information.

Choose from our three guided tours covering key aspects of Office 2000: simplified user experience, reduced cost of ownership, and increased integration with the Web and the enterprise.

Learn how to plan, configure, deploy, and maintain Workgroup Webs using Office 2000.

Read a description detailing how users running multiple versions of Microsoft Office, including Office 2000, can share files most efficiently.

View a series of matrices that summarize how each Office 2000 program handles documents from previous versions.

Discover how Office 2000 interacts with software such as Microsoft BackOffice® and Microsoft Internet Explorer to improve the distribution of information and help organizations quickly make informed business decisions.

Read answers to frequently asked questions about Office Server Extensions.

Find out how feedback from IT customers led to features that significantly reduce cost of ownership for Office 2000.

Deployment Tools

Take advantage of the following deployment tools.

Create your own Office 2000 deployment plan using this time-saving workbook that defines the decisions facing deployment planners and identifies potential contingencies.

A companion to the Enterprise Planning Workbook, this Sample Plan uses a fictitious financial institution to illustrate a typical Office 2000 rollout in a large organization working under time constraints.

Use this companion to the Enterprise Planning Workbook to address all the new planning variables in Office 2000, such as multiple install points and feature states, and as an aid in planning for enterprise and desktop integration of messaging and database access.

Read about the upcoming Custom Maintenance Wizard, which will provide for staged rollouts of Office 2000 programs, support ongoing maintenance, and allow IT administrators to change feature states after deployment.

Early Experiences

Get ahead of the curve by reading deployment documents based on the experiences of early Office 2000 adopters. You may also want to read our Case Studies, which focus on the benefits companies are gaining by moving to Office 2000.

Read the specifics of how the Boeing Company customized Office 2000 Help files, alerts, and dialog boxes with company-specific links and information, in order to reduce support calls.

See how one early adopter of Office 2000 is developing business solutions that take advantage of the product's integration with Microsoft BackOffice programs.

See how early adoption of Office 2000 helped Unisys improve document management and team collaboration.

Dig into the details of how a company with more than 6,000 desktops upgraded from Office 97 to Office 2000.

Follow the steps that one organization took in upgrading from Office 4.x to Office 2000.

Read how one company deployed and is using Office 2000 Server Extensions and Web Components to modernize its communication processes.

Find out how the Microsoft Information Technology Group has been deploying Office 2000 at the company—a challenging computing environment involving more than 100,000 computers.

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