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Forgot to add, I am using the 10.7.0 InstallESD.dmg.
And I also tried re-downloading InstaDMG to a separate folder to start completely from scratch.

Issue still persists. Image created is still a 10.7.0 image and updates are not being applied.

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So it sounds like the trick is not to delete the base image cache if you have it. And if you don’t, rewind the clock back before the certificates expired?

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Thanks for the tip. I will try this out when I get a chance this week. Will let you know how it goes.

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Sorry should have been clearer. That package for Firefox preferences isn’t actually packaging up the Firefox.app. It only packages the preferences located in Library/Preferences (I think that’s the location, can’t check right now) which is copied to the English.lporj folder. These preferences contain the bookmarks and so on.

Do you copy prefs like this? If not, how do you go about it?

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Try to take out the build number of the older installer from the 10.7 catalog. My guess is that it goes through those numbers in sequential order so an older build will probably be used first. You could try to:
1. get rid of it completely and add it back when you’re done.
2. put the older build number at the end of that line.
3. cut (move) the older build number and paste it in a separate line but comment it out in the catalog.

Let me know if any of those work.

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When you say you put the image on your USB drive, what exactly do you mean?
You copied the dmg file to your USB drive?
You applied the dmg image to your entire USB drive and then tried to do a restore based on the USB drive rather than the DMG file?

May sound simple, but just to make sure.
When I copy the dmg file and simply apply it via Disk Utility, I make sure that the dmg file is what I’m ‘restoring from’ and pay close attention to the partition that will be the ‘destination’.
I suppose you could also apply the dmg image to another harddrive and then restore from that harddrive to another harddrive. In all cases, it should just work.

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I think I got Lync 14.0.1 to work. I say think because I’ve only tested it once but it worked fine.

Needed to edit a few files inside the update mpkg:
distribution.dist
Right click the .mpkg, show package contents. Then, open the dist file in a text editor (I used TextWrangler). If you look around in there, you’ll see something that looks like [code]volumeOs1058OrHigher[/code]

Put
[code]return true;[/code]
at the first line of that function.

If you do a find search in the text editor, I edited the last two items found as such:

[code]function volumeOs1058OrHigherTest() {
return true;[/code]

[code]function volumeOs1058OrHigher() {
return true;[/code]

Then I edited the file:
find_lync
Erase everything in it and replace it with:
[code]#!/bin/sh
echo “$1/Applications/Microsoft Lync.app”[/code]

Then I edited the file:
office_updatable

In the file theres a section toward the bottom that reads:
[code]process=Popen3([package_updatable_exe, mpkg_path, install_location, minVersion, maxVersion], False)
status=process.wait()
if (status!=0):
sys.exit(-1) [/code]

Change that to

[code]process=Popen3([package_updatable_exe, mpkg_path, install_location, minVersion, maxVersion], False)
status=process.wait()
if (status!=0):
sys.exit(0) [/code]

Literally all you’re doing is changing “sys.exit(-1)” to “sys.exit(0)”

Then I edited the file:
pu_script

Same as office_updatable.
Change the following from:
[code]process=Popen3([package_updatable_exe, package_path, install_dest, vrs._kMinVersion, vrs._kMaxVersion], False)
status=process.wait()
if (status!=0):
sys.exit(-1)[/code]

to

[code]process=Popen3([package_updatable_exe, package_path, install_dest, vrs._kMinVersion, vrs._kMaxVersion], False)
status=process.wait()
if (status!=0):
sys.exit(0)[/code]

And that’s it. It got my update working at least. I recommend that you create a zip file backup because after it runs through instaDMG, a file called vrs.pyc gets created in under /Contents/Resources/vrs.pyc and I’m not sure what the file does. Hope that helps!

EDIT: just realized, if you apply patchOffice2011_1410Update.app, it will modify everything else but the find_lync and distribution.dist file.

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Same here. Still trying to get the Lync update to work though. It’s frustrating how the original installer package works fine but the update doesn’t.

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Can’t seem to get around spam filter. There is another program which I can’t seem to type out due to the spam filter which is also free.

EDIT: The list of programs are here: h*tp://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B076ltIv-IH-N2YzYWNiNTgtZDVlMS00NDJkLWE2ZmYtMWZmZGQ4Yjg2Y2Ux&hl=en_US
Page 26 includes the 6th program I couldn’t post.

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• JAMF Composer – h*tp://www.jamfsoftware.com/products/composer
• InstallEase – h*tp://www.lanrev.com/solutions/package-building.html
• Apple PackageMaker – h*tp://developer.apple.com/xcode/
• IceBerg – h*tp://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Iceberg.html
• Packages – h*tp://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Packages/about.html

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I simply re-packaged Adobe Flash using Composer. It was pretty straight forward (did a before and after snapshot) to package and include in the InstaDMG image.

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Yup, just like Allister said, it just takes that drag-drop app and adds it to the Applications folder. If you have apps like Firefox, it works great. No modification necessary.

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Accord[/u][p]Sorry but I still cannot get the patches to go in for office 2011

I used the version 4 of the patch installer and I have the volume license of office. It seems communicator patches goes through but not office. I can see there some changes in the office patches installer by going into show package.

Any hints would be great

FYI. Just trying to put 14.1 and 14.2 only.

Thanks [/p][/QUOTE]
Try to use the Office 2011 installer without SP1 included. And follow the guide in the wiki article here: http://www.osxdeployment.com/wiki/Office_2011

Still having problems?

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: freepms[/u][p]Two questions:

1) Does the patchOffice2011_1410Update_v041.dmg patcher (stated to work on the 14.1 and the 14.1.2 updaters) work on the 14.1.3 updater?

2) Has anyone yet dealt with the new MS Lync application (a replacement for Communicator), either manually or through a patch script? It’s only available through the VLSC site, I believe.[/p][/QUOTE]
1. I haven’t had luck getting it to work with 14.1.3. I tried a few weeks ago with no success.

2. I did manage to install Lync without any kind of patching involved! It simply works as is. Just drag the package from the ISO from Microsoft’s website. But keep in mind there is an update for it already Lync 14.0.1. I haven’t tried adding the update on top of Lync in InstaDMG. I’d like to be optimistic and say it also would work without any patching involved but……

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Try copying it to a partition and boot to that partition. See if you can log in.

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