Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 4 and MS Sysprep

Hi :)
Sorry this is not a great answer!  If e-letter starts his normal rant then please ignore it and 
accept my apologies for it and my apologies for this answer too, in advance.  

Btw how can i find out more about sys-prep?  It sounds like it might be useful for me too.  Errr, 
there is this link for corporate users but i'm not sure if it covers what you need
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Other_Documentation_and_Resources#Corporate_Users

Converting to MS Formats on every save is not always flawless.  It's better for people to keep an 
original in ODF format and only save as to MS formats when/if they need to share the document with 
ousiders.  

It's also worth knowing that MS Office can now read ODF formats too.  It's just their 2007 and 2010 
that is not perfect with spreadsheets, so it's only the Ods format that MS Office has trouble with. 
 

The best MS formats to use are their older ones as it's their newer OOXML formats that have the 
most compatibility problems between different versions of their own programs let alone with any 
other programs. I have just found yet another LibreOffice user that regularly finds himself used as 
a go-between for people using different versions of MS Office that can't read each others files.  

Another option is to use the Adobe Pdf route.  For many years anyone sending a Pdf or putting a Pdf 
on their websites also gave a link to help people download and install Adobe/Acrobat Pdf Reader.  
There were seldom complaints  to that so why not try the same method for ODF formats?  They are 
becoming recognised and used more widely.  Many people have both Adobe Acrobat, MS Office and 
LibreOffice on their systems nowadays.  

Good luck, thanks and regards from 
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: "Hallenberger, John - FSC Tech" <HallenbergerJ@fox.k12.mo.us>
> To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2013, 18:44
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 4 and MS Sysprep
>
> I have created an image of Windows 7 x64 and LO4 using sysprep. Sysprep is setup to copy the 
> current user to the default profile yet all preconfigured settings are gone and desktop icons have 
> disappeared when the system comes back up. Other desktop icons/settings make it through this 
> process fine but Libre seems to revert to a generic default install. Is this by design or are 
> there special steps I need to take during the sysprep process?
>
> Basically what I would like is for all LO programs to have their default "save type" as their 
> Microsoft equivalents and icons on the desktop already setup in the default user so that whoever 
> logs in is basically ready to go. I know LO pushes ODF but until we get a larger portion of our 
> population changed over this is the most realistic for us. Any help would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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