Office 2007 Activation Wizard

[Andree Vandestreek]

Does creating personalized, compliant, and consistent documents and presentations across seem like a daunting task for your organization? Is it difficult to retrieve real-time data into documents and presentations?

The Wizard is designed to boost productivity for every employee in your organization. It empowers users to personalize documents swiftly with a few clicks, simplifying the document customization process. This ensures consistency, adherence to design standards, and legal compliance across all documents.

This product allows users to easily choose specific personal and organizational data within Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Through intelligent placeholders then automatically apply this data throughout the document, including updating headers and footers, streamlining the creation of various documents such as letters, contracts, reports, and more, making the process more efficient and user-friendly.

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My issue is that I have recently installed Microsoft Office 2013 (subscription version) and I can't seem to turn off the "First Run wizard". The "Welcome to your new Office" wizard appears every single time an Office program is launched for the mandatory/default profile.

To get this to work we can use a little-known feature of Office which allows you to specify some HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE keys that are automatically migrated into HKEY_CURRENT_USER when an Office application is first run for that user. There is no worthwhile documentation of this process except on this Deployment Guys blog post.

The MyCustomSettings part of the key can be anything you like. You can even have multiple different names for different groups of settings. Then under this key make another key called Create and under this create the registry settings that you want to set in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. The 15.0 part refers to Office 2013 / Office 365.

When a user runs an Office application it checks to see if it has previously migrated these settings before and if not it creates the relevant keys in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. This is done before any user interface is shown so can successfully be used to set the options that hide the first run dialogs.

It figures - I've been working on this for days, and shortly after posting I figured out the answer. I examined the registry for a difference between a working user and the mandatory profile user and sure enough, the entire section of Office registry keys was missing from the mandatory profile user. It turns out that only one key was needed to fix the issue, so here is what I had to do.

Logged on as the mandatory profile user and lo and behold, the first run wizard finally did not appear! A little disappointed that the Local GPO templates didn't do what they were supposed to, but glad I have a working solution.

We are preparing to move from Office/Project 2010 to 2013. So far the config for Office has gone well but I am currently stuck with trying to hide the Planning Wizard prompt when Project 2013 is opened for the first time. I have tried the solutions given in this post ( -wizard-microsoft-project-2010) however, it doesn't appear to be working for me in this instance.

I first tried installing Project 2013, which is configured to unisntall 2010 if it exists, and then added the registry keys manually afterwards before opening Project. No luck. then I tried importing the keys into the MSP file for Project 2013 so they would be applied during the installtion. Still no luck. The keys appear in the registry but do not seem to have any affect when I launch the application.

I should have mentioned I had changed the path to account for 2013. Right now I am installing as the user so there is not service account in the way at this point. We use SCCM 2012 to deploy and thus far, I haven't had issues adding CU registry keys to Office 2013 and deploying via SCCM which uses its own account to run the install.

I am trying to build a PDF form. Everything is great until I try to enter a group object. The group wizard does not open. On the Controls Box there is no Wizard On/Off button. When I click the View Buttons down arrow, the Wizard On/Off button is there but no selection box to turn it on is available.
I am using writer in the default mode, LibreOffice version 5.
Thanks.

@ov10fac Came back to this today and finally figured out what is happening. Had never used this before so was not aware of it. The Visible Button selection is a toggle for what appears on the toolbar. So if the Forms Control Wizard is not on the Forms Control toolbar, click it on the Visible Button selection and it will be there. Click it again and it is removed from the toolbar. Once on the toolbar it too is a toggle for the wizards.

By establishing a hybrid deployment, you can extend the feature-rich experience and administrative control you have with your existing on-premises Exchange Server organization to the cloud. A hybrid deployment also offers support for a cloud-based archiving solution for your on-premises mailboxes with Exchange Online Archiving and may also serve as an intermediate step towards a complete migration of your on-premises mailboxes to Exchange Online.

This topic covers configuring a hybrid deployment for your on-premises Exchange organization and your Exchange Online organization in Microsoft 365 or Office 365 using the Hybrid Configuration wizard. In this topic, a hybrid deployment is created for the following organization configuration:

The on-premises organization doesn't have Edge Transport servers deployed. The Hybrid Configuration wizard supports configuring Edge Transport servers as part of a hybrid deployment, but configuring Edge Transport servers in the wizard isn't covered in this topic.

Configuring a hybrid deployment with the Hybrid Configuration wizard requires several important prerequisites for the wizard to complete successfully and for the hybrid deployment features to function correctly. You must complete all the prerequisites outlined in Hybrid deployment prerequisites before you use the Hybrid Configuration wizard to create and configure your hybrid deployment. > Additionally, the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant is a free web-based tool that helps you configure a hybrid deployment between your on-premises organization and Microsoft 365 or Office 365, or to migrate completely to Microsoft 365 or Office 365. The tool asks you a small set of simple questions and then, based on your answers, creates a customized checklist with instructions to configure your hybrid deployment. We strongly recommend that you use the Deployment Assistant to generate a customized hybrid deployment checklist for your specific organization's needs.

Configuring the requirements for a hybrid deployment will take considerably longer than the estimated time to complete the Hybrid Configuration wizard procedures outlined in this topic. For example, signing up for Microsoft 365 or Office 365 for enterprises, configuring Active Directory synchronization, and assigning Exchange Online licenses require a larger time investment and may also include network topology changes. You should plan for more than the time listed to complete this procedure for the overall time to complete the end-to-end hybrid deployment configuration.

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the "Hybrid deployments" entry in the Exchange and PowerShell infrastructure permissions topic.

You need to run the Hybrid Configuration Wizard from a computer running the latest release of a supported version of on-premises Exchange, or from any domain-joined server or workstation capable of establishing remote PowerShell connections to the Client Access Server or Mailbox Server chosen for hybrid configuration.

The Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer tool checks the external connectivity of your on-premises Exchange organization and makes sure that you're ready to configure your hybrid deployment. We strongly recommend that you check your on-premises organization with the Remote Connectivity Analyzer tool prior to configuring your hybrid deployment with the Hybrid Configuration wizard. Learn more at Remote Connectivity Analyzer.

Click Next, and then, in the On-premises Exchange Server Organization section, select Detect the optimal Exchange server. The wizard attempts to detect an on-premises Exchange server. If the wizard doesn't detect an Exchange server, or if you want to use a different server, select Specify a server running Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, or Exchange 2016. Then specify the internal FQDN of an Exchange Client Access Server for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 or an Exchange Mailbox server for Exchange 2016.

On the On-premises Exchange account page, in the Please provide your on-premises Exchange administrator account credentials section, select change if you don't want that the wizard to use the account you're logged into to access your on-premises Active Directory and Exchange servers. If you want to use the same credentials, continue to the next step.

On the Gathering Configuration Information page, the wizard connects to both your on-premises organization and your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organization to validate credentials and examine the current configuration of both organizations. Click Next when it's done.

On the Hybrid Features page, select Full Hybrid Configuration and then click Next. On this page, you can also select Organization Configuration Transfer if you want to perform a one-time transfer of organization objects from your on-premises environment to Exchange Online. For more information, see Hybrid Organization Configuration Transfer V2.

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