[Casper] Deploying MS Office 2008 12.2.3 Update

[Dan DeRusha]

Correct, our window is 11:45pm to 4:45am.  If the user is not around they can always get it from Self Service.

On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote:

> That could be key as I think when a user is logged in, or even worse - running office - while you try to run updates I think it can cause issue.  Scheduled updates at night when no one is around or done as a log out or boot up policy I think are best practices to deploy such things.
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> >>> Criss Myers <bukira at gmail.com> 11/18/09 1:38 PM >>>
> I just dropped the mkpg into Casper admin and deploy as a policy and works everytime, I run as a logout policy, updates from the previous version of office
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> Criss
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> On 18 Nov 2009, at 18:54, "Dan DeRusha" <DDeRusha at schawk.com> wrote:
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>> I agree with Tom. Sometimes adding the updates go smooth, too many times they have issues. Instead of troubleshooting/investing time why the update didn't work, we decided to take a little more time and effort to create the full suite.  We have the bandwidth to accomidate the extra data. 
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>> Dan De Rusha
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>> On Nov 18, 2009, at 12:39 PM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:
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>>> If you are using compiled configurations you could drop the pkg file into your compiled configuration and recompile it.  This will only update the image though as it won't create an incremental update for you to push out with Casper.
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>>> I, personally, would just recreate the office package and replace it on the JSS then replicate it out.  Then have it install the whole package again.  I have seen too many weird things go on in my environment with partial installs.  Of course, my issues are mostly environmental so many do not apply to the rest of you lucky people that don't have these things happen to you.
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>>> >>> John Wetter <john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us> 11/18/09 10:55 AM >>>
>>> Have you tried just dropping the mpkg into Casper Admin and deploying it that way?  That would be the preferred way to do it I think unless you run into problems there.
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>>> John
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>>> From: Cody Smedsrud <cody.smedsrud at successcharters.org>
>>> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:50:18 -0600
>>> To: Casper List <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
>>> Subject: [Casper] Deploying MS Office 2008 12.2.3 Update
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>>> p>
>>> Has anyone had any luck deploying the MS Office 2008 12.2.3 update that was released on 11-10-09?  I tried dragging the mpkg into composer and converting it to source but it just builds an empty dmg.  
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>>> I viewed the package contents of the mpkg and there are a bunch of different packages inside of it.  I know I could take a snapshot but I just wanted to see if anyone knew a way to deploy the update without doing that.  
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>>> Cody Smedsrud
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