From: <
mactug-bounces@lists.uwaterloo.ca> on behalf of Donald Duff-McCracken
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 2:24 PM
To: MacTUG
Subject: [MacTUG] Office 2016 & repackaging
Background info:
Despite the fact that the official Office 2016 installer is in PKG format, it usually does not deploy well remotely via ARD or Deploystudio. The issue is that installing remotely with the Microsoft_Office_2016_Volume_Installer.pkg results in a first-run
startup screen that does not let you ‘skip’ signing in to office 365. See
https://derflounder.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/screen-shot-2015-08-05-at-2-50-18-pm.png?w=289&h=347 for
a screenshot of the issue. When you run this installer locally, the first-run startup screen includes a ‘skip’ option to not sign in. When one installs Office locally, com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plist is created in /Library/Preferences. Usually copying
this file to the correct location on a mac with a problematic install resolves the issue.
As someone had suggested earlier on, I used Composer to build a package (which included capturing the first-run thereby creating the com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plist file, and did the updates). This worked fine. Yesterday at MacTUG I mentioned that
I was still encountering problems but it looks like my com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plist file had for some reason not registered the changes that a first time login created. I replaced the com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plist with another copy in my
package and it worked no probs.
Disclaimer:
These installation issues are above and beyond some of the issues that Dani reported, such as updates not happening, some layout discrepancies, etc. Frankly most of the mac users over in ENV have switched over (myself included) and I have not heard of
these issues being reported.
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