Office 2011 SP 2 12.2.0 full installer sets Office 2011 application folder to

[rtrouton]

FYI. It looks like the Office 2011 SP 2 12.2.0 full installer makes the /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011 folder and all of the enclosed files and applications readable and writable by all users on the system. There are a couple of posts on this describing the problem available here:

http://thisisdave.posterous.com/microsoft-office-2011-for-mac-leaving-you-ope

http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/fixing-permissions-after-installing-the-office-2011-sp-2...

It looks like the problem applies to new installs using the Office 2011 SP 2 12.2.0 full installer. Installs made using the older Office 2011 and Office 2011 SP 1 installers, then updated to Office 2011 SP 2, do not appear to have this problem.

I've written a script that fixes the permissions problem after the installation finishes. For those interested, it's available here on my GitHub repository:

https://github.com/rtrouton/rtrouton_scripts/tree/master/rtrouton_scripts/office_2011_sp2_installer_...

Thanks,
Rich

(Same information also posted to the MacEnterprise list, apologies for those seeing it twice.)

[nessts]

you could do that same thing in two lines
chown -R root:admin /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011
chmod -R o-w /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011

and this way you do not make stuff executable that does not need it.

[tkimpton]

I agree with Todd I though the samething reading through the script.