Some Office 2010 Resources

A trial copy of Office 2010 is available for download.

• Evaluation Center: Download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
• Evaluation is for 60 days.
• Trial product must be uninstalled prior to installing RTM.
• Evaluation Version Release Notes.

The Office 2010 user guides are a good source for learning the product’s various abilities.

• Microsoft Download Center: Office 2010- Product Guides

We manage our client’s Microsoft Office deployments using Group Policy. To do so, we need to create and link a custom GPO and import the respective templates into that GPO.

• Microsoft Download Center: Office 2010 Administrative Templates and OCT

Since there are now two architecture based versions of Office, one for x86 (32bit) and amd64/x64 (64bit), we need to be mindful of any caveats to running the newly created 64bit version.

• Microsoft Download Center: 64-bit Client Installation of Office 2010
• MSDN: What is the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office 2010?

And finally, Microsoft has simplified the number of versions of Office down to three.

• Office 2010: Which suite is right for you?

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

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