Awesome, great work, Nate! I will try this out next week and report results.

-Andy

Thanks d2s. I didn’t really look into 2011.. having some troubles even getting a base image here 🙂 but thats another story.

It looks like some changes took place in the office_update script that may explain why this installer is not cooperating.

[code]# Get install location
#install_location=os.path.dirname(mso_folder)
# 2011-02-25 – The updater now uses the full path in the updatables, so used installer volume (“/”) instead of mso_folder (“/Applications/”)]
# This also allows us to use updatables in /Library
install_location=os.path.dirname(install_volume)[/code]

This distributes fine through ARD, but not through DeployStudio, nor Instadmg. I’m kind of surprised as nary a search engine pulls anything much up on people trying to distribute this update.

So I’ve been doing some research and I found this interesting piece of information: http://mailman.intermedia.net/pipermail/casper/2010-October/008795.html

I was comparing a modified 14.0.2 patch to a non-modified 14.1.0 patch (when I say modified, I’m talking about using the droplet app provided in this thread). I looked at the distribution.dist file for both patches and noticed this piece of information in the 14.1.0 distribution.dist file

[code]
function VolumeMeetsOSRequirements() {
return (TargetVolumeMountpointIsRoot() && volumeOs1058OrHigher() && volumeHasUpdatableVersion()) ;
}

function TargetVolumeMountpointIsRoot()
{
var result = false;
try
{
result = my.target.mountpoint == "/";
} catch (e) {}

if (!result)
{
my.result.type = ‘Fatal’;
}
return result;
[/code]
The link I provided earlier indicates that this was only a problem for Casper, not InstaDMG. But I’m wondering if there has been a change since then? Maybe I’m getting close to the issue or I’m completely off base. But I’ll continue to do some more research and testing.