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• Silent Microsoft Office 2011 Installing For Macbook Air
• Silent Microsoft Office 2011 Install For Macbook Air
• Install Office 2011

Silent Microsoft Office 2011 Installing For Macbook Air

I've been googling and searching itninja all day and not getting the info I need, so I'm putting out this question in the hopes of a KBOX Mac deployment veteran helping me (I consider myself something of a KBOX Windows deployment veteran in that I've got it to install quite a few things with quite a bit of custom code). You are on the right track.

You are correct that the Mac client won't first unzip the archive so your install command has to include that first. Here is my install command for Microsoft Office 2011: unzip 'Office Installer.zip'; installer -pkg 'Office Installer.pkg' -target / I wasn't worried about removing Office 2008 first so I didn't need a script, but if you do need a script then you could put everything in script.sh and then call that script instead. For instance, we use Druva InSync as our backup solution and here's the install command in KACE: tar -zxvf druvamacinstall522.tar.gz && install.sh Typically a shell script on Mac can use either the bash shell or the sh shell and there can be a header on the first line indicating which shell to use but in my experience scripts run through KACE do not require it. Also, the managed install runs in the system context so there is no need to sudo the commands. Thanks chucksteel, good to know I'm in the right area.

I've made a install.sh which should remove the old versions, install the new one and then (just for good measure) run a kbox inventory, I've set Managed Install to 'Configure Manually' and put in: tar -zxvf officemacstandard2011wsp2.tar.gz && install.sh setup.log I can see it download the file, it extracts it, and it creates a setup.log file, but the log file is empty and nothing appears to happen on the Mac. Contents of my install.sh written in Notepad on Windows and saved and included in the tar.gz file (it's extracted ok along with 'Office Installer.pkg' #!/bin/sh # # install.sh # # Uninstall Previous Versions rm -rf '/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008' rm -rf '/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011' # # # Install Software installer -pkg 'Office Installer.pkg' -target / # # Run Inventory /Library/Application Support/Dell/KACE/bin/runkbot 2 0 # End. I've amended the end of my MI command line to && install.sh setup.log 2&1 and now I've actually got something in the setup.log file sh: /Library/Application Support/Dell/KACE/data/downloads/25284/install.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Could be what you said about line ending or the format of the script? I really don't want to have to write and update this script solely on a Mac, is there anyway to do it on Windows?

I figured Notepad would be alright (obviously not using notepad or MS Word! Once I've got this script working, I'd like it to delete all these files in the current directory so as not to leave the install on the Mac for them to find and copy off.

Silent Microsoft Office 2011 Install For Macbook Air

Also, do I need to worry about the 'Dock'? Removing any current 2008 icons, and adding 2011 ones? Some of them could be like 'you removed my office! I've called the helpdesk, panic, panic, panic' (or maybe I'm tarring them with the Windows user brush, but I'm a pessimist and it's worked for me so far). Yes, the ^M is probably causing the problem.

I use pico in Terminal, it's a basic text editor. I'm not hardcore enough to use vi or emacs. We actually made the decision to leave 2008 on machines because of the dock issue.

Install Office 2011

Since the dock is a user preference it's difficult to make the changes for all users. There are ways to script the changes but you would have to make that script run at login for every user. In the end we decided to push out 2011 and as techs visited computers we made the changes to the dock. For lab systems we changed the default user profile and we have now moved to managing more system settings with Workgroup Manager (now called Profiles in 10.8) so we can place items on the dock for users.

To remove the files once the install is complete check the box in the managed install to delete downloaded files. If you don't trust that then your script should be able to delete the package and the archive, too.