[Casper] Office 2008 enterprise package

[Cyrus Vahhaji]

I¹ve done minimal testing too. Pushed package to a machine with an existing
Entourage DB, AD profile, and left FUT and FEU unchecked and everything has
been working smoothly.

Cyrus


From: "Smith, William" <william.smith at merrillcorp.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:00:34 -0600
To: <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [Casper] Office 2008 enterprise package

I¹ve done just a little testing with the script and it does work for Office
2008 on Mac OS X 10.4. I haven¹t yet tested with Office 2008 on Mac OS X
10.5. Some new definitions were added to Entourage¹s AppleScript dictionary
to specify the use of Kerberos but I haven¹t updated the script to include
them yet.

I¹m not understanding the problem regarding the identity. A new identity
will be created or an older identity will be upgraded. There¹s little reason
to pre-populate an identity for someone. Keep in mind that you can
pre-populate script items using the /Applications/Microsoft Office
2008/Office/Office First Run folder. (Office 2004 had an Entourage First Run
folder but that seems to be non-existent in Office 2008. I¹m not sure if
Office 2008 would still honor the folder if it were created.)

As for Casper the package as it arrives should be able to go directly into
the repository via Casper Admin without any modifications (I haven¹t tested
yet, so I¹m speculating). But a couple of security exploits have been found
so you¹ll want to be aware of those and plan accordingly. Check the ³Office
2008 Known Issues² link here
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/itpros/default.mspx>.

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
Digital Information Systems Support
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492


On 2/29/08 2:25 PM, "Leacy, Miles" <Miles.Leacy at PoloRalphLauren.com> wrote:

> I haven¹t done it yet, but I plan to test this soon to see if it will still
> work with 2008:
> 
> http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/setup_script.html
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/29/08 3:23 PM, "Cory Ranschau" <CRanschau at RoomAndBoard.com> wrote:
> 
>> Anyone else taken a stab at this?  The packaging itself isn¹t bad but getting
>> the Office Identity to populate in an Active Directory managed environment
>> seems to be a chore so far.
>>  
>>  
>> 
>> From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com
>> [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Dagel, Rich
>> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 11:48 AM
>> To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com
>> Subject: [Casper] Office 2008 enterprise package
>>  
>> We just received our enterprise version of office 2008.  Has anyone made a
>> package yet?  Any tips or tricks on making the package?  Also any way to
>> import existing accounts or dose this need to be done by hand.
>> 
>> 
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