Office 2008 12.1.5 Update

[jarednichols]

Has anyone tried deploying the .mpkg for the 12.1.5 update? Does it work as is?

Thanks

j
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Jared Nichols
ISD Infrastructure and Operations - Desktop Engineering
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood St.
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
(781) 981-5500

[talkingmoose]

I've deployed it to about five machines that are all running 10.4.x. No
On 12/17/08 12:55 PM, "Nichols, Jared" <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
problems for us so far.

Several folks in the Microsoft Entourage newsgroup are reporting problems
with Entourage not saving account passwords to the Keychain after the
install. No one is sure why yet but a couple of us think it may be specific
to users updating from a certain point level. If this happens then the
workaround is to remove Office, re-install Office and then apply the 12.1.0
and 12.1.5 updates. Some folks may have received later Office 2008 DVDs that
are already patched to 12.1.0 and will only need to apply the 12.1.5 update.

This is a mini-combo update that will update 12.1.0 through 12.1.4
installations.

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bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492

[Bukira]

Yes I've deployed and it worked d
Fine

[John_Wetter]

Everyone that says you've deployed it, did you deploy it using Casper? We've had an issue where if we tried deploying any of the office 2008 updates using Casper, we get this error: "A version of the software required to install this update was not found on this volume."

Are you guys trying Casper on 12.1.5 and it is no longer doing this? At least through 12.1.4 we've tried everything here: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/error/not_found.html and haven't been able to get Casper to deploy updates.

I had hoped that with Office 2008 I could stop doing the "uninstall/reinstall the whole thing" just to deploy a simple update now that the updaters were mpkg's.

-John

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John Wetter
Technology Support Administrator
Technology & Information Services
Hopkins Public Schools
952-988-5373
john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us

[Bukira]

Hi John,

Yes i use capser 6 and os x 10.5.5, i got that error and what i meant
was a permissions issue or the contents of the mpkg, what you need to do
is propergate the permissions on the casper share, then it worked fine,

Criss

Criss Myers
Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services)
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5
LIS Business Support Team
Library 301
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
Ex 5054
01772 895054

[Eyoung]

I've not tried deploying via the .pkg (or .mpkg) I use the tried and true composer route. it has worked well for 3 Office updates now.

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Eric Young
eyoung at thayer.org

[talkingmoose]

Yes, using Casper. I've heard many reports of the error you mention but have
On Thursday 12/18/08 1:20 AM, "John Wetter" <john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us> wrote:
never seen it myself.

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bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492