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1. MICROSOFT AUTOUPDATE 4.0 FOR MAC IN A LOOP INSTALL
2. MICROSOFT AUTOUPDATE 4.0 FOR MAC IN A LOOP UPDATE

This script will only install Ms Office 2016 updates to computers that have an operating system higher or equal to 10.10.įor JSS, a package was created that contains the following: 2 plist file with this script and the Binary Installer.Įach function is activated with a boolean variable.

MICROSOFT AUTOUPDATE 4.0 FOR MAC IN A LOOP UPDATE

This script is designed to check and update Microsoft Office to the latest available version. This script was written by Christian Orellana. You can find the package I use for this script on my github here: The package contains a pre-configured plist file for helping msupdate properly (but this method doesn't work), and it also contains a Microsoft Auto Update 4.0 installer. It is working fine and does find updates only if a user had previously opened a Microsoft Office app and then it will find updates. It is a lengthy script.I feel like it can be a lot shorter.I added a lot of echo's for testing. Maybe if someone else tested this could they see if it works fine? I attached a screenshot of his solution here: Paul Bowden from Microsoft was able to direct me to another way of correcting the plist file that should help msupdate find updates correctly but when I tested his method it ended up corrupting the plist file.Or the Autoupdate app that is located in /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app check for updates.

You can test this by doing a clean install of Microsoft Office 2016 and the Auto Update 3.18 or above. I am unable to catch updates for MS Office applications even after copying and pasting the correct plist file that has the registered applications in the Preferences folder.The binary is installed in /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app/Contents/MacOS/msupdate.The 2 file is installed under /Users/~/Library/Application Support/Preferences/2.It is not very clean as I am an amateur programmer, but these have been my findings testing this new binary package from Microsoft: I have been working on this code for about two weeks. It will then use the binary to check and install updates. If it is not properly configured, it will basically copy and paste the plist into the local user's Preference folder.ĥ. To shoot up to cloud what MS Office applications have been registered on the computer and check for updates. Checks for the proper configured file that allows the binary If not it will install MAU 4.0 that comes with binary.Ĥ. Checks if Office 365 is installed (with my lazy way of checking)ģ. I wrote a handy script and created a package that does the following:Ģ. If you have downloaded Microsoft Autoupdate v3.18 and above, you will find that it comes with a handy binary "msupdate" to help us IT folk deploy updates for Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac.