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May 24, 2011 at 7:13 pm #380774Chris GeorgeParticipant
I created a choices file for Office 2011, to exclude Messenger and Communicator, but it didn’t seem to work – the build process failed miserably, saying “nothing to install” and bombed out of the build at that point.
My choices file looks like this:
[code]
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
office
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
required
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
officecomponents
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
word
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
excel
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
powerpoint
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
outlook
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
dcc
attributeSetting
0
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
messenger
attributeSetting
0
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
communicator
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
rdc
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
vb
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
proofingtools
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
catalan
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
danish
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
dutch
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
english
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
finnish
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
french
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
german
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
italian
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
japanese
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
norwegian
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
portuguese
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
brazilian
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
spanish
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
swedish
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
czech
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
polish
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
russian
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
turkish
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
appsupport
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
fonts
attributeSetting
1
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
automator
attributeSetting
0
choiceAttribute
selected
choiceIdentifier
dock
I’ve placed it in /instadmg/InstallerFiles/InstallerChoices, named InstallerChoicesOffice2011.xml.
The line in the catalog file looks like:
[code] Microsoft Office 2011 SP1 Microsoft Office 2011.dmg sha1:e4687989b15b24eec4d24a3d66cb59952b8c065e /instadmg/InstallerFiles/InstallerChoices/InstallerChoicesOffice2011.xml[/code]
(tabs replaced with spaces)So… what am I doing wrong? Where SHOULD the InstallerChoices file go instead, and how should it be specified in the catalog?
May 24, 2011 at 8:10 pm #380776Allister BanksParticipantHey Chris,
I have a post about this on the mailing list, the line you have for your catalog file would maybe work on a mpkg file, but cygnus2112 reports that the old way still works. That is, if you make a new dmg with your ChoiceChanges file at the root next to the mpkg that should work. Two other alternatives: you could modify the distribution.dist file, which I haven’t tried, or you could do what I do, which is rip the thing apart into a catalog like this:
[url]http://pastie.textmate.org/private/mquert7rzz4fpnwqxwzdw[/url]
You’ll notice I comment out the pkg that forces you to quit any browsers while it installs, and I also leave out silverlight since I don’t have any sharepoint services running anywhere. I wish it was easier, I’ll be moving to either repackaging or having munki doing these installs on firstboot soon, if I can’t get this installerChoices bug fixed. Thanks,Allister
May 25, 2011 at 3:29 pm #380784Tim SuttonParticipant[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Allister[/u][p]Hey Chris,
I have a post about this on the mailing list, the line you have for your catalog file would maybe work on a mpkg file, but cygnus2112 reports that the old way still works. That is, if you make a new dmg with your ChoiceChanges file at the root next to the mpkg that should work. Two other alternatives: you could modify the distribution.dist file, which I haven’t tried, or you could do what I do, which is rip the thing apart into a catalog like this:
[url]http://pastie.textmate.org/private/mquert7rzz4fpnwqxwzdw[/url]
You’ll notice I comment out the pkg that forces you to quit any browsers while it installs, and I also leave out silverlight since I don’t have any sharepoint services running anywhere. I wish it was easier, I’ll be moving to either repackaging or having munki doing these installs on firstboot soon, if I can’t get this installerChoices bug fixed. Thanks,Allister[/p][/QUOTE]
Also, doing it the old way with a choices file at the root of the .dmg containing the package, instadmg.bash expects the choices file to be named “InstallerChoices.xml.” instaDMG will take an alternate choices name for the BaseOS, but not for individual package items. This is strictly instaDMG functionality.
Recently, the functionality of adding a choices XML as a fourth tab-stop-item in an instaUp2Date catalog was added, but I personally haven’t used this method. Since instadmg.bash is hardcoded to expect InstallerChoices.xml, I can only assume instaUp2Date writes out this file to where instaDMG expects it may find it.
June 2, 2011 at 6:08 pm #380801GoldbergParticipantI modified the distribution.dist file and it works perfectly. Directions can be found here:
http://www.officeformachelp.com/office/administration/deployment/distribution-dist/
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June 6, 2011 at 10:05 am #380807AnonymousGuestI use the old toggle method which works fine for me:
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outlook
messenger
communicator
rdc
dcc
dock
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