[MacTUG] Office doesn't update to latest

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

Sometimes when you are doing a complex and NEW task – such as building a task sequence in Parallels Mac Management for SCCM – you assume it is the complex and new task that is messing things up haha.

I saw Dani’s initial note but somehow missed Glenn and your comments, so I guess park this “Task Sequence” project for a while until we get the new VL serializer. I believe Sandra is on the MacTug mailing list could Sandra (or other IST person) keep an eye on its appearance? From the line Will posted (thanks Will)
“The final 2019 VL Serializer will be available September 24 on the Microsoft Volume License Service Center<https://www.microsoft.com/Licensing/servicecenter/default.aspx>.”

We really do need to get this new Serializer, ASAP, as we are going to have folks download 16.17 on their own and mess their machines up. (I just confirmed, manually updating a good machine to 16.17 does mess it up).

It is also interesting as that link notes that MSoft has changed its naming conventions, which buggers up things if you are going any automation. I have a script that goes out and looks for an update and downloads it, and send me an update in Mattermost. It it still working but the mattermost note is messed up now haha

Again, thanks Dani for first noticing something weird, Glenn for pointing our the serializer issue, and Will for finding an answer.

don


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From: <mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca> on behalf of William Lewis <rwlewis at uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Friday, September 14, 2018 at 10:14 AM
To: Glenn Anderson <glenn.anderson at uwaterloo.ca>, Dani Roloson <daroloson at uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: [MacTUG] Office doesn't update to latest

Apparently 16.17 is Office 2019 and needs a new serializer or an Office 365 subscription/account. Read this:

https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/26775/ms-changed-version-numbering-for-2016#responseChild170749

Will

From: mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca <mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca> On Behalf Of Glenn Anderson
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 9:31 AM
To: Dani Roloson <daroloson at uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: MacTUG ‎[mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca]‎ <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: [MacTUG] Office doesn't update to latest

A quick update…

Microsoft Auto updater just popup up and updated by Excel to 16.17 ( I hadn’t manually updated it )
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Word wasn’t updated, but then again it was updated due to my manually doing it.

It still wants me to activate office….

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Could someone try running the Office update and see if everything now gets updated correctly/nicely and let the group know.

Thanks,

Glenn






On Sep 14, 2018, at 9:08 AM, Glenn Anderson <anderson at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:anderson at uwaterloo.ca>> wrote:

It does appear that the version of Office the campus uses doesn’t update to the latest version at this time.

I manually downloaded the provided update and updated Word, it worked but now I am being prompted to sign in or activate Office.

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I ran the office serializer but that didn’t seem to work as it is still asking me to activate office after doing so.

- Glenn





On Sep 13, 2018, at 3:03 PM, Dani Roloson <daroloso at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:daroloso at uwaterloo.ca>> wrote:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/officeupdates/update-history-office-for-mac
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Update history for Office for Mac | Microsoft Docs<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/officeupdates/update-history-office-for-mac>
docs.microsoft.com<http://docs.microsoft.com/>
Provides IT Pros with information about the latest updates for Office for Mac, including links to download packages, and an update history


says 16.17.0 is the latest but MAU and Word - check for updates won't go past 16.16.2.
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