Mac / Office 2016 deployment - has anyone already built this out?

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Hi all - I’m building a fixlet to deploy Office 2016 standard (volume license) for Macs.

I started with the mac software distribution wizard using the ISO from the VL site, but that process is failing (download failed status). I verified I can download the file through a browser using the URL and that the sha hash values are all accurate. Not really sure why it’s failing to download. seems really strange.

after digging around a bit more, I ran into others that are building custom .pkg’s to deploy on other software solutions (like this guy using kace: http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/creating-an-office-2016-package-for-mac-deployment )

my question for you: have you already built out a method for deploying Office 2016 for macs? Are you doing it from the ISO, or did you build a .pkg file for deployment? I am new to deploying to macs and my bash is pretty weak, so I wanted to check in here for advice before I went off on tangent and started to try this route.

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Hi Entaille,

You may install it by custom fixlet as well if you are having silent installer of Office 2016.

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I built a fixlet to deploy office 2016 silently to PC’s without issue - working on mac next when I have enough time to.

I was just curious if anyone else had already built this out and didn’t mind sharing what they had learned about the process.

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I set up a fixlet back in January, so I’m not 100% sure of what I used for the installer package. However, I believe I downloaded the Office 2016 for Mac Standard ISO, opened the ISO, then uploaded the Microsoft_Office_2016_Volume_Installer.pkg file to the BigFix server (using the Windows Software Distribution Wizard as I was just uploading it, then editing the fixlet manually).

I just checked and my file doesn’t include the version number whereas the current download from Microsoft’s VL download site has “Microsoft_Office_2016_15.23.0_160611_Volume_Installer.pkg” in it. Maybe they changed something since January that’s causing issues for you?

The relevance for the fixlet includes (1) mac of operating system; (2) system version >= “10.10.0” and (3) exists application whose (name of it = “Microsoft Word.app” and version of it < “15.0”) OR not exists application whose (name of it = “Microsoft Word.app”)

The action script downloads the PKG, then:

extract Microsoft_Office_2016_Volume_Installerpkg.tmp

wait installer -pkg “__Download/Microsoft_Office_2016_Volume_Installer.pkg” -target /

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thanks a bunch, very helpful. I was going straight from the iso, not the pkg. I’ll give that a whirl and see how it goes!