Some background:In my organisation I deploy software with Munki, previously with Office 2011, it was pretty easy to deploy and get a fully up to date install of Office 2011. Install the full volume licence installer from the VLSC site which was version 14.3.0 and around 1Gb. Let Munki apply the latest combo updater it has (14.5.8) and around 120MbAnd we’re done. Pretty easy and painless and about 1.1Gb of data to send to the client.However, in Office 2016, Microsoft has sandboxed their applications, which is the right thing do™. However what this means is that any shared content the apps use such as frameworks, fonts, and proofing tools all need to be contained within each application bundle.
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Previously in Office 2011, the apps could get this content from a shared location such as /Library/Application SupportThis means that our Office 2016 installer package is only about 1.3Gb, the installer then just copies the same files into each app bundle at install time via a postinstall script. That results in each app being rather large as you can see here.It also means that the Office 2016 updates that Microsoft offer for each app are huge, approx 800Mb per app.So now if we applied our same methodology of deploying Office 2011 to Office 2016 we would end up with something like this:. Install the full Office 2016 VL installer (1.3GB).
Microsoft Volume Activation - Converting Microsoft Office 2013 or 2016 to and from KMS and MAK Activation This document shows how to convert Microsoft Office 2013 or Microsoft Office 2016 to and from KMS activation and MAK activation, as well as help determine which activation type is currently in use.
Let Munki apply each app update 800Mb times 5 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook)That means we are pushing about 5gb to the client just to install office. Thats insane.Solution?Well we only need the full VL installer for its special licensing package that generates the volume licence plist (/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plist)Microsoft offer the latest version of the suite in a package that contains all the apps and is SKU-less, meaning no licensing (It can be licenced as 0365 or VL)So we could just download the latest suite package which is about 1.3GB, then install that on our client machines, install the special licensing package on top to licence the suite and we’re done. We would only need to push about 1.3Gb to the client to have a fully up to date office 2016 installation.
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