Hi Paul, Thank you for your videos. They are really useful and informative due to some factors: I am new in MAC ( just 8 months) in MAC support and my current job is focusing on Windows and and MAC patching and deployment in conjunction with Cyber team and help-desk. For MACs, I mostly patch their machines via terminal or bomgar or guide one by one via Jamf's real-time monitor if they don't feel compatible to let me access their machines. As said, just months but I am feeling very confident and I will continue watching and studying your videos and training in order to improve my personal skills.
We want an specific office version installed. So if we get a new mac we don´t want it to download the latest as you showed with CURL. Is it possible to download specific version from permalinks
Hi Peder. You can find the fully-qualified URL to each version on macadmins.software (in the Office for Mac Release History table). For example, the direct download link to the 16.25 build is officecdn-microsoft-com.akamaized.net/pr/C1297A47-86C4-4C1F-97FA-950631F94777/MacAutoupdate/Microsoft_Office_16.25.19051201_Installer.pkg
@@paulbowden3724 thanks great. Regarding autosignin with email adress is there any option that it takes the current mac user named signed in , as to define user login for every user would be bit of a work
@@pederjensen7288 If you're using Jamf Pro, take a look at the blog post that Bill Smith wrote about using the $EMAIL variable option to auto-populate the autosignin value. www.jamf.com/blog/help-users-activate-microsoft-office-365-and-configure-outlook-in-one-click/
Thanks Paul. In your example you are logged into bash/zsh as as the same user who is also the GUI console user too (i.e.; not SShed in as a IT admin remotely). So when you are executing the "defaults read/write" commands, are you referencing Microsoft plist files in the /Library (global domain) or in /Users/user_name/Library (user domain)? You aren't specifying a hard path.
Hi Dan ...when using the 'defaults' command without a filepath, macOS will resolve to a registered CFPreferences domain. For the main Office apps (W/X/P/OL/ON), they are sanbdboxed, so the backing plist file is ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Library/Preferences (for example). However, for MAU, the backing plist is in ~/Library/Preferences. It's always best to let macOS resolve the location of the plist instead of specifying it directly. There are several reasons for this 1) you don't have to worry about caching/killing cfprefsd when you make changes 2) the location could change at any time if the app transitions from non-sandboxed to sandboxed 3) a future version of macOS might change the backing store.
Hi Paul,
Thank you for your videos. They are really useful and informative due to some factors: I am new in MAC ( just 8 months) in MAC support and my current job is focusing on Windows and and MAC patching and deployment in conjunction with Cyber team and help-desk. For MACs, I mostly patch their machines via terminal or bomgar or guide one by one via Jamf's real-time monitor if they don't feel compatible to let me access their machines.
As said, just months but I am feeling very confident and I will continue watching and studying your videos and training in order to improve my personal skills.
We want an specific office version installed. So if we get a new mac we don´t want it to download the latest as you showed with CURL. Is it possible to download specific version from permalinks
Hi Peder. You can find the fully-qualified URL to each version on macadmins.software (in the Office for Mac Release History table). For example, the direct download link to the 16.25 build is officecdn-microsoft-com.akamaized.net/pr/C1297A47-86C4-4C1F-97FA-950631F94777/MacAutoupdate/Microsoft_Office_16.25.19051201_Installer.pkg
@@paulbowden3724 thanks great. Regarding autosignin with email adress is there any option that it takes the current mac user named signed in , as to define user login for every user would be bit of a work
@@pederjensen7288 If you're using Jamf Pro, take a look at the blog post that Bill Smith wrote about using the $EMAIL variable option to auto-populate the autosignin value. www.jamf.com/blog/help-users-activate-microsoft-office-365-and-configure-outlook-in-one-click/
Thanks Paul.
In your example you are logged into bash/zsh as as the same user who is also the GUI console user too (i.e.; not SShed in as a IT admin remotely). So when you are executing the "defaults read/write" commands, are you referencing Microsoft plist files in the /Library (global domain) or in /Users/user_name/Library (user domain)? You aren't specifying a hard path.
Hi Dan ...when using the 'defaults' command without a filepath, macOS will resolve to a registered CFPreferences domain. For the main Office apps (W/X/P/OL/ON), they are sanbdboxed, so the backing plist file is ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Library/Preferences (for example). However, for MAU, the backing plist is in ~/Library/Preferences. It's always best to let macOS resolve the location of the plist instead of specifying it directly. There are several reasons for this 1) you don't have to worry about caching/killing cfprefsd when you make changes 2) the location could change at any time if the app transitions from non-sandboxed to sandboxed 3) a future version of macOS might change the backing store.