[Casper] Casper remote window

[Smith, William]

The original Office 2008 DVDs contained version 12.0.0, which had a few
permissions issues. If you can get a hold of a DVD that was later released
with Office 2008 12.1.0 then this problem will likely go away.

We have the 12.0.0 installer and so I made a 12.1.4 package at the time we
were ready to deploy. I start with that and then deploy the latest update
from Microsoft. Installing my 12.1.4 package along with the 12.2.0 update
worked just fine for me.

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bill

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


From: Jeff Strauss <jstrauss at loyolahs.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:35:58 -0700

> Yeah, metapackage files have never worked for me for Office updates. It could
> be because there are user-configurable options inluded in the mpkg or because
> the mpkg calls other pkgs to install, but I'm not sure. Interestingly,
> extracting the individual pkgs from the Office mpkg and throwing them into
> Casper Admin hasn't worked for me, either. The "New and Modified Files"
> snapshot in Composer has proved reliable in this regard. :)
> 
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:34, "Yakoob, Toufiq" <Toufiq.Yakoob at searshc.com> wrote:
> 
>> No we just used the MS mpkg file, so we will try your idea.. thanks
>> 
>> From: Jeff Strauss [mailto:jstrauss at loyolahs.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:25 PM
>> To: Yakoob, Toufiq
>> Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com; Bachuwa, Patrick
>> Subject: Re: [Casper] Casper remote window
>>  
>> 
>> What I've done in the past is use Composer to install the update by taking a
>> "New and Modified Files" snapshot, packaging it as a DMG and deploying it to
>> managed clients. That has worked every time. Is that what you're doing?
>> 
>> On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:22, "Yakoob, Toufiq" <Toufiq.Yakoob at searshc.com
>> <mailto:Toufiq.Yakoob at searshc.com> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> We have created two packages Office 2008 package and the 12.2.0 office 2008
>>> update package. The issue is when we deploy office 2008 it works fine but
>>> when we deploy the update package on top of it, it breaks the office
>>> install. 
>>> None of the office icons launch any appsŠ Anybody had any idea what are we
>>> doing wrong here?