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I'm imaging Mac notebook computers for our faculty with Casper (both full and thin workflows) and noticed the following pkg installers from the macadmins site are not getting installed:



Microsoft_Word_2016_15.25.0_160817_Installer.pkg
Microsoft_Excel_2016_15.25.0_160817_Installer.pkg



Outlook and PowerPoint are there, as is the latest AutoUpdater 3.6.0. It was awfully nice not to have to capture anything in Office 2016 with Composer.



Anyone else seeing this and/or have suggestions to overcome these problems? I'm using Casper 9.93 and booting from a NetBoot restorable stick created with AutoCasperNBI.



Cheers from the Great White North.



My workflow sorted by priority:



osx_updated_160719-10.11.6-15G31.hfs.dmg
AdminToolBox-AdobeSerialize2016.pkg
TypeClassicsSubset.pkg
CC2015forDCAug16_Install.pkg.zip
InstallersSW100.dmg
VirusBarrier.pkg
launchdaemons_postimage.pkg
Microsoft_AutoUpdate_3.6.0_160803_Updater.pkg
Microsoft_Outlook_2016_15.25.0_160817_Installer.pkg
FileZilla.dmg
Firefox.pkg
Google Chrome.pkg
Microsoft_Excel_2016_15.25.0_160817_Installer.pkg
Microsoft_PowerPoint_2016_15.25.0_160817_Installer.pkg
Microsoft_Word_2016_15.25.0_160817_Installer.pkg
TextWrangler.pkg
VirusBarrierX9-Settings.pkg
VLC.pkg
Microsoft_Office_2016_VL_Serializer_2.0.pkg
Acrobat Customized.pkg

Hi. I too am from the Great White North (Canada..Home of Bob and Doug)
What if any errors do u see from the imaging logs? I just have a policy that installs the software after it completes the imaging process

I must confess I haven't checked the logs, but I did package just Word and Excel, deleting anything that wasn't in the Applications folder and that is working as a quick work-around.



I am testing again with the original PKG files and will post log snippets.

Strangely, after testing it again it is working fine. Although I did see something interesting. I'm booting from a USB stick created with AutoCasperNBI. At the end of the workflow it said rebooting and then suddenly went back to the top of the workflow and said "installing" for the OS X image file which should be a block copy. I force quit Casper Imaging after a while of this and started again but the strange symptom did not repeat itself. I did get a screen shot before doing the force quit, however.

This stick was booting a MacBook Air and was originally created (after I upgraded to Casper 9.93) on a 5K iMac.

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