Yes, that is what we opted to do. The installer works fine when pushed from LANrev....so we will tell them to move forward and set-up their accounts and just click past that dialog...then update sometime in the future.
Thank you. -Mike On 8/14/08 8:51 AM, "William Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mike! I can certainly appreciate the idea but I think you're asking for trouble. First, the Office applications aren't really stand-alone. They all share common components. If you attempt to only update Entourage you may fail to update some of the common components it requires. You could also break some features such as Word's mail merge or its ability to use the Entourage Address Book. Also, we've have a lot of reports in the Microsoft Entourage newsgroup of folks who have run Monolingual on their Office 2008 installs. Monolingual removes extra language support files from Office. (In a sense, you're also trying to alter the install to something unsupported by Microsoft.) Now, because they've altered the installed files, they can't apply any updates. Their only option is to completely uninstall and then install again. My suggestion is to distribute documentation with the laptops about the SSL problem so that folks are aware of it and then begin the process of properly updating. Those who don't read your documentation can be updated when they contact you for help. Not an ideal solution but safer IMHO. -- bill Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/><http://entourage.mvps.org/> Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/><http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/> YouTalk <http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/youtalk><http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/youtalk> Twitter: follow meck On Thursday 8/14/08 7:28 AM, "Perbix, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason I only want Entourage, is it is 13 megs to push out, as opposed to > the whole update which is a 164 meg push out. I would then followup with the > full update after the rush of the beginning of school is done. > > On 8/13/08 4:26 PM, "Perbix, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well the main reason is MS was kind enough to use an Apple Distribution > meta-package...so I can simply enclose that in LANrev and push it out to > laptops, and they get it and install (I do this with Shockwave, full installer > for one example)...if the package has no user options, or requires any input. > > The update does fix the SSL issue for us. We tested on a few already. > > I was trying to avoid installing and re-packaging...but of course, that is one > option. > > On 8/13/08 4:07 PM, "Paul Teeter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mike: > > Why not re-package the entire update with Iceberg or PackageMaker, then > deploy to all the laptops with Apple Remote Desktop? > > 6500 laptops might take while, but at least they'll get uniformly updated? > > On 8/13/08 12:33 PM, "Diane Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is not advised. FYI, the SSL is still broken for me and a few others. >> I'm working with the developers to see if we can find a fix. >> >> If this is your main reason for updating, I would do one test case. >> >> Perbix, Michael wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to only apply an update to Entourage? It fixes the SSL error >>> we were having, and we are already into 6500 laptops imaged. What I would >>> like to do is push out the update for Entourage only to resolve this issue, >>> unless it causes an issue with other components or future updates. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/><http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/><http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
