Hi all,
I need your help with “Set up Network Share for Office 365 - Office 2013”.
I am trying to set up an older version than “15.0.4823.1004” of office 2013 - how can I do that?
(Specific version I need is: 15.0.4797.1003)
Also:
After I will finish configuring that one I will need to use: “Configure the Update Path of Office 365 - Office 2013” - should I run this patch on all computers in my AD?
How can I make sure the computers don’t contact Microsoft CDN?
Thanks,
Smadi
Hi Samadi,
For older version, you will have to create a custom copy from fixlet 365015 Set up Network Share for Office 365 - Office 2013.
After creating the custom copy, inside the action script change from:
appendfile <Add SourcePath="{pathname of folder "bigfix.O365ProPlusRetail.2013" of drive of windows folder}" OfficeClientEdition="32">
to:
appendfile <Add SourcePath="{pathname of folder "bigfix.O365ProPlusRetail.2013" of drive of windows folder}" Version="15.0.4797.1003" OfficeClientEdition="32">
and from:
appendfile <Add SourcePath="{pathname of folder "bigfix.O365ProPlusRetail.2013" of drive of windows folder}" OfficeClientEdition="64">
to:
appendfile <Add SourcePath="{pathname of folder "bigfix.O365ProPlusRetail.2013" of drive of windows folder}" Version="15.0.4797.1003" OfficeClientEdition="64">
And yes, after configuring that one, you will need to use “Configure the Update Path of Office 365 - Office 2013” only on the computers that you want to patch through network share. After this deployment, the registry information for CDN on configured computers will change to the configured path. This will make sure that the computers won’t contact Microsoft CDN.
thanks, that helped a lot.
my only issue now is that I cannot distribute this patch to the server I want.
The relevance look like this:
(((if( name of operating system starts with “Win” ) then platform id of operating system != 3 else false) AND (if exists property “in proxy agent context” then ( not in proxy agent context ) else true )) AND (“Win98|WinME|Win2000|WinXP|Win2003|WinXP-2003|WinVista|Win2008” does not contain name of operating system)) AND (not exist value of settings “_BESClient_PatchMgmt_O365ProPlusRetail_2013” of client)
My server is Windows 2012 R2 and comunicating with BigFix, it is the same server I use for my PXE.
Any idea how to resolve it?
Hi Smadi,
Can you check whether your server has this setting “_BESClient_PatchMgmt_0365ProPlusRetail_2013”? If this value has been set, then the relevance might return False.
thanks, it does - should I remove it?
Ok, removed it. the relevance fixed.
thanks
Hi again,
Need your help with this one again please.
I had to pause it in order to do some other tasks 
I am able to start running the fixlet- but its get stuck on: pending download
I checked the client log under: “C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client__BESData__Global\Logs”
This is what is see there:
ActionLogMessage: (action:15500) Non-Distributed - DownloadsAvailable
ActionLogMessage: (action:15500) Cannot empty _Download directory
I tried stopping the “BESClient” service and changing the name of: “C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client__BESData” folder - to re-create it - was not able to:
Tried renaming only the _Download folder:" C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client__BESData__Global__Download" - that worked, the folder was recreated and I could see the “officedeploymenttool.exe” file in the new _Download folder.
But still - no luck - the fixlet stuck, the log keep saying: “Cannot empty _Download directory”
By the way, I checked the ports:
TCP: 139, 445
UDP: 137, 138
All are open.
Please help,
Smadi
It means that some action created by BigFix Client is still running and using files inside that directory.
Please check if you don’t have any process created by BigFix action that you launched before.
I checked again, nothing is currently running on this server other then the "Set up Network Share for Office 365 - Office 2013"
Other ideas?
Check this link.