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Office 2011 packaging

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
May 2, 2012
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ImAMacGuy
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Since we are finally getting ready to deploy office 2011, I decided to make an official package for it. I've been following teh scripted steps in http://www.officeformachelp.com/office/administration/deployment/casper/

Some of the stuff is a little wonky with composer 8.52 (postflight scripts refused to save until I deleted the default one and then recopied the proper one).

Anyway - to make a long story short - the directions said to put 'must be installed at image time' does that mean I can't push the install/config separate? do I need another bundle to handle that portion?

Best answer by mm2270

If you're referring to the "This package must be installed to the boot volume at imaging time" setting, that only applies to actual imaging, meaning the package should run the install AFTER the Mac has booted up into its new OS. Some packages don't play nice with trying to install on the hard drive while they are in an imaging state like NetBoot or Target Disk Mode, so that's what that setting is for.
Shouldn't affect anything with a regular policy push, so you should be OK.

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geoffreykobrien
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Forum|Forum|11 years ago
July 24, 2014

I too am using the configs based on @bentoms presentation, works slick.

I just download the installer from Microsoft, and drop the pkg into Admin, index it and deploy on reboot during imaging and through self service.

Strange thing started yesterday, I newly imaged machine when outlook is configured ,you can't create a new email, calendar event, etc, it's strange. Im in the process of downloading SP4 now to see if there is an issue with 10.9.4 and 14.3.0 that I was running. Fingers crossed.

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