Table of contents
Introducing Office 2008 for Mac ...........................................................................................................................1
Office 2008 Evaluation .......................................................................................................................................................2
How Office 2008 delivers business value............................................................................................................2
What's new in Office 2008........................................................................................................................................6
What's new for the IT professional ...............................................................................................................6
What's new for the end user ........................................................................................................................10
Compare versions of Office for Mac.................................................................................................................. 17
Office 2008 system requirements.......................................................................................................................26
About Microsoft Volume Licensing programs...............................................................................................27
Office 2008 Planning........................................................................................................................................................27
Planning a deployment...........................................................................................................................................27
Deployment methods for Office 2008......................................................................................................27
Deployment methods for Office 2008 preferences.............................................................................29
Setup sequence of events.............................................................................................................................. 30
Planning for Office 2008 product updates ............................................................................................. 35
Planning your e-mail system........................................................................................................................36
Planning for Entourage 2008 ............................................................................................................................... 41
Default ports for Entourage 2008 .............................................................................................................. 41
Exchange Server and related requirements for Entourage 2008 ................................................... 42
Entourage 2008 deployments in an Active Directory infrastructure.............................................43
How the Account Setup Assistant works .................................................................................................45
How e-mail rules work in Entourage 2008 .............................................................................................46
How information is synchronized between Entourage 2008 and Exchange Server ...............46
How Entourage 2008 works with free/busy data.................................................................................49
Entourage 2008 features supported by different versions of Exchange Server........................ 50
Differences between Entourage 2008 and Outlook 2007................................................................. 51
Planning Entourage security.........................................................................................................................53
Planning to use Office 2008 with related Microsoft products.................................................................67
Working with SharePoint sites and Office Live Workspace by using
Document Connection for Mac...................................................................................................................67
Working with external data sources in Excel.......................................................................................... 71
Working with macros...................................................................................................................................... 72
Office 2008 Deployment ................................................................................................................................................ 73
Deploying Office 2008 applications................................................................................................................... 73
Creating the installation image...................................................................................................................73