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  • March 14, 2019

Forgive me if this has already been addressed, has anyone addressed the issue with reverting to a prior version? Eample: We recently discovered that the latest Webex utility breaks when Outlook is updated to 16.23. How would one go about reverting to 16.22?


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  • March 15, 2019

@BB_jamf its a good question. No way to do this through the Mac App Store. To revert to 16.22 you would need to download from https://macadmins.software.

Thanks, Paul.


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  • April 4, 2019

So, just found this thread because we're running into something odd trying to move from CDN to VPP MAS.

We have a policy that runs that nukes office, unlicenses and nukes the keychain (the latter being pbowden scripts). Then runs a recon that throws the computer into a "MAS Install" smart group and a VPP MAS install (push) scope. This then starts the Office MAS installs. Those SEEM to run successfully, BUT, they then seem to start running again! And then THOSE stubs get left behind/stall. Oddly triggering the VPP MAS installs of office also seems to trigger other VPP MAS installs as well (like on my machine iWork reinstalled, as did Microsoft Remote Desktop).

The first installed versions work fine. This is on a 10.14.4 machine.

Anyone else seen this odd behavior?


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  • April 23, 2019

@rstasel How did you get the nuke keychain script setup? I can't seem to figure out how to get it to do anything. I've set the parameters in the script and then called those in the policy but I'm positive I'm doing something wrong.


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  • April 23, 2019

@LovelessinSEA We just put the script into jamf, with no options. Then call it via a policy with parameter 4 set to "--All".

I don't believe we ever had to modify the script (actually, we did, but since then pbowden has modified his script on github to account for calling from Jamf), it turned out we were just doing it wrong (setting the parameter label in options for the script rather than actually passing it a parameter via the policy).


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  • April 23, 2019

@rstasel so i tried that and it's still not doing anything that I can tell.


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@rstasel I believe you need to include the --Jamf flag so the script ignores the first three arguments


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  • April 24, 2019

@rstasel --Jamf in Parameter 4, and --All in Paramter 5 did the trick. Thanks!


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  • April 25, 2019

@LovelessinSEA

Can you share screenshot please? of what you did.

Thanks.


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  • April 25, 2019

@aaelic24 @rstasel Before I couldn't figure out how to use the script I was getting a lot of popups for outlook(more that 7 in most cases) and 2 for excel, word, and power point, now I'm just getting 1 per app. Still not perfect and I still may be doing something wrong. Hopefully someone can help us out. But this is what I have.


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  • April 25, 2019

Not sure if you guys have run into this.. but

I had All the 0365 apps in self service. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook only (scoped) available to certain (Helpdesk) user group. My idea was to have the (helpdesk) group login to self service and install the apps for the customer. Issue was that once the app was selected for installation it would direct the user to the app store. The fix was to move the machine into scope of the VPP app. This brought up another Problem! Doing this the 0365 Apps would start installing automatically with out using self service install. Called JAMF support and after troubleshooting we found out that (product issue) if you have under the VPP all "Automatically Force App Updates" option checked, this will force the App to be installed without prompting the user. For me this is not good, since I need to work on removing the old version of Office First. Just wanted to share this info.. .Thanks.


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  • April 25, 2019

@LovelessinSEA

Cool.. thanks! One more thing.. can you point me to the same scrip you used please!


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  • April 25, 2019

@rstasel Replying to your MAS stubs, I've seen two different scenarios, I've seen one where the stubs were left behind. but yesterday after the app installs twice one of them disappears. O.O


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  • April 25, 2019

@aaelic24

You can find it here: https://github.com/pbowden-msft/NukeOffKeychain


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  • June 11, 2019

what is the best practise to go from Office VPP back to normal PKG ?. Must a removal and then re-install be made, or does there exist some kind of script in one "package"


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  • June 11, 2019

I believe you just need to delete the apps from Applications and then reinstall via pkg. If you want to switch back to a volume license, you'll need to unlicense (via here: https://github.com/pbowden-msft/Unlicense). It does seem like you may also want to nuke the office keychain (https://github.com/pbowden-msft/NukeOffKeychain). Those three things should clear the way for reinstalling the CDN version.


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