Mass deployment of MS Office and Adobe CS2 updates

[Anonymous]

Both companies release updaters that are almost worthless using ARD to deploy. Anyone have any ideas on how they can be remotely deployed without babysitting each computer when updating. Does anyone know if there is method for converting these installers to a package (packagemaker snapshot for deploying the whole 500mb folder is unrealistic as well). I must be missing something. I can not imaging we are ALL making new images everytime Microsoft or Adobe updates something… I welcome any ideas. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

How do you “repackage” their update?

[Anonymous]

Is there a quick way to repackage MS Office updaters?

[mhelman]

macshome wrote:

I install it and then look at the install log. From there I build a tree and process with Package Maker.

Using ARD 3 to copy the entire (basic install) Office folder from an updated machine is really quite fast. However, I would like to learn how to use PackageMaker for these kinds of updates.
How are you building your tree. Have you automated any or all of the steps involved?
Based on the log generated from the 10.1.7 update, I don’t think building a tree manually would be the preffered method.
Thanks for any info.
Mark

[macsamurai]

The CS2 updates really have us stumped. The initial CS2 install is a piece of cake using the silent install method, but we’ve yet to find a way to silently install the CS2 updates, which take forever and require admin intervention at every step.

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