Describes and illustrates the client deployment methods for Microsoft Office 2010.

The Microsoft Office 2010 deployment and configuration articles listed in the table below include information about deployment scenarios, step-by-step installation instructions, and various methods that you can use to deploy Office 2010. Before you deploy Office 2010, we recommend that you review the information in Planning the deployment of Office 2010.

This article provides detailed technical guidance on the processes and procedures when you use Group Policy to assign computer startup scripts to deploy Microsoft Office 2010. A script can be written in any language that is supported by the client computer. Windows Script Host-supported languages, such as VBScript and Jscript, and command files, such as a batch file, are the most common.

Deploying Office 2010 in a test environment

This section provides an illustration and description of the test network environment for the Group Policy computer startup script infrastructure. It also includes procedural steps for deploying Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 by using a Group Policy computer startup script.

The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V enables Office 2010 client products to be sequenced and deployed with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).