MCX settings for Office 2011

I will preface this by referring people to Greg Neagle's excellent article at the following web site: http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/managing-office-2008/ This article was VERY useful to our district. We were able to leverage WGM to set our users to save to automatically to 97-2004 formats by default. We were additionally able to suppress the Setup Assistant, Deactivate automatic updates and by capturing the /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/OfficePID.plist file we were able to identically brand all Office 2008 installs. Alas, now we move on to Office 2011 Volume License edition. Our district needs to fix a stupid problem we are having with our Exchange mail server and Entourage. We've found that the answer to the program seems to be to upgrade to Office 2011 for Mac. This after a very lengthy paid case with Microsoft Tech Support :-( Anyway, after the initial shock of having to be on the bleeding edge, I've found that Office 2011 isn't that bad from the user point of view. I'm not quite willing to deploy to users yet as I cannot seem to suppress the setup assistant for users other than the localadmin login. Steps I've taken to investigate/try to solve this: 1. I took Greg's advice in the article and visited the com.microsoft.office.plist file. I found that Office 2011 stores the setup assistant key as follows (14\FirstRun\SetupComplete integer 1). 2. Again took Greg's advice in the article and visted com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist. His article still seems to apply here. The important key is as follows (HowToCheck string manual) 3. Imported both plist files into a new workgroup called "testmachinegroup" in WGM. Removed all keys save for what I talked about from these two plist files. 4. Took my spare Mac Mini, wiped it, installed Mac OS X 10.6.3 from the boot DVD and applied all applicable OS updates. Bound the Mac Mini to OD successfully and added the machine record to "testmachinegroup" 5. Installed Office 2011, ran through the setup assistant as localadmin answering "no" to updates and error reporting and branding the software. I also assume (perhaps wrongly) that setup assistant is copying fonts and other resources to various locations on the machine. In short: I'm okay with running the Office 2011 setup assistant once per machine, just not for every user that logs in. I am grateful for any advice and if Greg Neagle is viewing this post, thank you again very much. Hopefully it's just something simple as I would like to begin deployment on Office 2011 over the course of the next two weeks. If it helps anyone, I can forward the Microsoft Office 2011 Admin guide from Microsoft. I am still re-reading it for the third time hoping for an answer but not expecting it. blackholemac