Active Desktop and office 2003

[SwimmerB]

My problem that I am having here is when a user with a laptop disconnects from the network the office icons on the desktop do not run the office 2003 programs. I am using the active desktop to force a set wallpaper down to them and the icons that the users see. The thing is is that if I search into windows explorer and into the all users profile I can run the office programs fine using the icons there just not the ones on the desktop. We are currently using Windows XP along with server 2003.

I have a guess it is how active desktop is being used in conjuction with the use of syncronization anf offline files but not really sure how to fix this. Has anyone else run into a problem with this??

Edited July 14, 2005 by SwimmerB

[ripken204]

is office 2003 on the network or on the laptop? the only reason the icons wouldnt work is if office 2003 was not installed on the laptop but if it is installed then then can the user just go the install directory of office 2003 and open it from there? and have u tried turning of active desktop to see if it works?

[SwimmerB]

It is installed locally on the laptop. And the way we have the systems locked down they don't have anything in their start menu to open it up from there. I am trying to figure out a way to do this on my existing configuration to not make the user have to do something special everytime she goes off the network. And about turning off active desktop not sure how Group policy would let me do that sort of thing.