Office 2011 Settings Guide for InstaDMG

[dead2sin]

I looked over Office 2011 and figured out how to suppress the Setup Assistant and customize it per user just like with Office 2008.

Here is the guide for doing so: [url]http://www.osxdeployment.info/wiki/Office_2011_Settings[/url]

If anyone has any issues or questions, feel free to ask.

Nate

[Allister Banks]

Great work as always, thanks for this! Now just to get our hands on it… but since new volume licensing for 2008 is no longer being sold its inevitable at this point.

Allister

[dead2sin]

I wanted to note that this screws up communicator. I just discovered it today and I am kicking myself for not realizing it sooner. So FYI, if you use communicator, do NOT use this method 👿

Nate

*edit* This was microsoft being stupid again with their postflight scripts. See my latest post on this thread – [url]https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=27797[/url]

[tristan_mason]

Hi Nate

I have a small problem with the Office 2011 installer which may be linked to the user account install also. When I put the Plist files in the user template they don’t work, well the problem is that they don’t get transferred to the new user account when it is created hence they don’t work and Office runs as if new with the setup assistant etc. If I install them in the user account, Libs/Prefs then it’s all good but this is not ideal for obvious reasons. Also the Public and Sites folders are not created in the new user account so there is something screwy with the new user account pkg or my implimentation of it. I’m just trying to get this method working before moving on to the first boot stuff. One step at a time eh?

Any thoughts greatly received.

Tristan

[dead2sin]

On a image you created, don’t apply it to a machine, just double click to mount it and then browse to the User Template and make sure all the files are there. I would bet there is a small typo in the full path to the User Template or something of that sort (I’ve done it a few times myself).

Check out the new Office installer patcher, it fixes the Communicator issue I referenced in my post.

Nate

[tristan_mason]

roger wilco. i’ll report back once the current image has baked. may be a while as it contains Final Cut Studio…

T

[rbwong]

Hey guys …. that link to osxdeployment seems to be off the air … is there another site with that write up?

[Goldberg]

The site was updated to a .com

The new address is http://www.osxdeployment.com and for the Office 2011 Settings http://www.osxdeployment.com/wiki/Office_2011_Settings

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