Patcher for the Office 2011 Installer

[dead2sin]

The office 2011 Installer sets the permissions on its licensing LaunchDaemon by absolute path instead of target ($3), so when used with InstaDMG, the permissions don’t get set correctly and the Licensing Daemon fails to run.

Note: This is for Volume Licensed Office 2011 only.

The fix is this:
1. Right click on “Office Installer.mpkg” and select “Show Package Contents”
2. Browse to Contents–>Packages.
3. Right click on “Office2011_en_licensing.pkg” and select “Show Package Contents”
4. Browse to Contents–>Resources–>postflight and open with your favorite test editor (Or use the droplet I’ve posted below).
5. In the postflight, make it look like this by adding $3 before the paths and commenting out the launchctl command:

#!/bin/sh

chown root:wheel "$3"/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
chmod 644 "$3"/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
chown root:wheel "$3"/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper
chmod 755 "$3"/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

#launchctl load -w "$3"/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist

exit $?

6. Make sure the postflight is still executable (chmod +x it if you are paranoid) and you should be ready to use it with InstaDMG.

I made a Droplet .app using Platypus that automates this process. Download it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11466/PatchOffice2011Installer.dmg

Feel free to ask questions or if you have issues with the droplet, let me know.

Nate

[dead2sin]

To clarify, with that droplet , just drop the Office Installer on it and it will do the rest 😀

Nate

[bostonmacosx]

link is broken… :question:

[dead2sin]

I just tested the link and asked several others to test it and it seems to be working. Perhaps an internet filter is getting in the way?

Nate

[mosen]

Thanks for doing the research on the 2011 installer dead2sin, and pasting up the bash script 🙂

[andyinindy]

Sweet, this works well for me.

One request for the author of the “PatchOfficeUpdate” script/droplet (mosen?); could you please update your script for Office 2011? I would like to include the 14.0.1 update in my build train, but it fails to install. Incidentally, I edited the existing patcher with the path to my Office 2011 installation as follows, but it did not allow the update to be installed in InstaDMG:

#!/bin/sh

#
# $1 - The update bundle folder
#

DISTRIBUTION_FILE="$1/Contents/distribution.dist"
RESOURCES="$1/Contents/Resources"

# Remove the volume check from the distribution script.
sed '/function volumeOs1049OrHigher/a \ 
	return true;
	' "$DISTRIBUTION_FILE" > "$DISTRIBUTION_FILE.tmp"

rm "$DISTRIBUTION_FILE"
mv "$DISTRIBUTION_FILE.tmp" "$DISTRIBUTION_FILE"

# Delete find_office binary
rm "$RESOURCES/find_office"

# Create dummy find_office script
printf "#!/bin/sh\necho \"\$1/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011\"" > "$RESOURCES/find_office"
chmod +x "$RESOURCES/find_office"

Otherwise, thanks!!

–Andy

[dead2sin]

The function for check volume has a new name, so that code didn’t work with the new update. I’ve taken to Liberty of updating Mosen’s patcher. I’ll post it in a new thread.

Nate

[dead2sin]

I updated this patcher to fix the communicator issue and the font issue (duplicated fonts).

Here is vesion 2:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11466/Patch%20Office%202011%20Installer/Version%202/PatchOffice2011Installer.dmg

If anyone experiences issues, feel free to let me know.

Nate

[dead2sin]

Version 3 of this Patcher can be found here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11466/Patch%20Office%202011%20Installer/Version%203/PatchOffice2011Installer.dmg

This version should patch all localizations instead of just EN.

Nate

[mosen]

Thanks again Nate! 😀

[bw38]

This patcher works with Update 14.0.2. Wish I could find a direct link to Communicator Update 13.1.0 to test that out as well. It seems it’s only available through Microsoft AutoUpdate.

[dead2sin]

bw38 wrote:

This patcher works with Update 14.0.2. Wish I could find a direct link to Communicator Update 13.1.0 to test that out as well. It seems it’s only available through Microsoft AutoUpdate.

That is driving me crazy too. If you figure out a good way of getting your hands on it, let me know.

Nate

[andyinindy]

Here’s the download URL for Communicator 13.1.0:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/6/2/6622B710-155F-4CB8-B625-6CA0421455DC/Communicator13.1_ALL.dmg

Yay, Wireshark!

[bw38]

I was looking for a url sniffer. I’ll add that app to my arsenal!

Btw I also did a before and after snapshot which seems to do the trick as well. Only three files are really changed the Communicator.app and a .plist for AutoUpdate under /Library and /User/Library.

[bw38]

Hmm, I ran the patcher on that installer and it did not work for me. IT says “Microsoft Communicator cannot find a valid license. Something is wrong with this copy of Microsoft Communicator. Please re-install with the original installer and then apply updates.” Very strange. Is anyone else getting this?

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