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Donnerstag April 07, 2005

Just switch! - Managing Hundreds of StarOffice Users
Today I want to talk about how administrators can deal with hundreds of StarOffice users in a network environment. Administrators don't have the time to walk from PC to PC in order to change the user configurations for all users or just one department. Therefore, StarOffice comes with the so-called Sun Java Desktop System Configuration Manager.

The name of the tool might be a bit confusing, but a brief explanation of the history will make everything clear. The tool started its life as the StarOffice Configuration Manager in StarOffice 7. Later when Sun introduced the Sun Java Desktop System, the tool was extended to also support Mozilla, Evolution and GNOME in addition to StarOffice. Since the tool can handle more than StarOffice today, it evolved into the Sun Java Desktop System Configuration Manager.

The LDAP-based tool can be accessed via the browser from any workstation in the network. In my case everything including the server software is installed on my workstation, and thus I access localhost. After logging in with the administrator password and selecting the StarOffice component, the following screen appears:

On the left side of the screen one can select the department or individual user, and on the right side one can make the modifications to the settings.

One example of what one can do with the tool is the management of the StarOffice security configuration. Configurations can be changed for all users at once, groups/departments or individuals. The following screenshot shows the security settings in StarOffice 8 before we change them via the Sun Java Desktop System Configuration Manager:

Within the Configuration Manager the settings for the file-save password and the included personal information can be changed like shown here:

After a few seconds the settings have changed for all the affected StarOffice users ...

... and in the file save dialog the password option is selected per default.

Similarly the Configuration Manager allows to set document template paths, macro settings, etc.
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