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The Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Administrator's Guide is for system implementers, IT managers, system administrators, or others who are responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining Office 2008 in their organizations.

The Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Administrator's Guide covers the following:

Introducing Office 2008 for Mac

• Office 2008 Evaluation
  How Office 2008 delivers business value
  What's new in Office 2008
  Compare versions of Office for Mac
  Office 2008 system requirements
  About Microsoft Volume Licensing programs

 
• Office 2008 Planning
  Planning a deployment
  Planning for Entourage 2008
  Planning to use Office 2008 with related Microsoft products

 
• Office 2008 Deployment
  Deploying Office 2008 applications
  Configuring and deploying Office 2008 preferences
  Configuring Office 2008 applications

 
• Office 2008 Operations
  Maintaining Entourage 2008
  Managing Mac OS X system preferences
  Distributing Office 2008 product updates

 
• Office 2008 Security
  Planning for security in Office 2008
  Configuring and deploying security settings for Office 2008
  Mac OS X security

 
• Office 2008 Technical Reference
  Messaging reference
  About Open XML Formats
  Attachment file types in Entourage 2008
  Play voice mail messages received from Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging

 
• Office 2008 Known Issues
  Security issue in Office 2008 remote installation to Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger)
  I can't download the volume license version of Office 2008 for Mac by using Safari
  Restricted users might have unauthorized access to Office 2008 for Mac program files
  Known issues for installation and removal of Office 2008
  Office Setup Assistant quits unexpectedly during installation of Office 2008 for Mac to network home folders
  When I deploy Office 2008 for Mac SP1, the update is not installed on client computers
  Office 2008 Troubleshooting
  Troubleshooting Entourage

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Supported operating systems: Mac OS X

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