microsoft office 2011 for mac 14.2.4 update

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 FOR MAC 14.2.4 UPDATE LICENSE KEY
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 FOR MAC 14.2.4 UPDATE INSTALL

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 FOR MAC 14.2.4 UPDATE LICENSE KEY

If you’re running an individually-licensed copy of Office 2011, that is no big deal: the Office apps themselves are able to prompt for a license key and activation. It deletes the contents of /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Office Setup Assistant.app/Contents/Resources/XX.lproj/Main.nib (which is a bundle-style NIB), however (unlike probably everything else listed in removables.txt) the update does not contain updated versions of them. Office 2011 14.2.X Update.mpkg/Contents/Packages/Office2011_all_core_14.2.X.combo.pkg/Contents/Resources/removables.txt, which gets run by ./Office 2011 14.2.X Update.mpkg/Contents/Packages/Office2011_all_core_14.2.X.combo.pkg/Contents/Resources/postflight. If you update to version 14.2.0, 14.2.1, 14.2.2, 14.2.3, 14.2.4 (or possibly future versions) right after installing from the DVD however, Microsoft Office Setup Assistant.app gets corrupted.

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 FOR MAC 14.2.4 UPDATE INSTALL

If you install from the DVD, launch one of the Office apps to activate the license, quit it and then install all the available updates from Microsoft, everything is fine. If that file is not valid (such as after doing a fresh install of Microsoft Office 2011), it launches /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Microsoft Office Setup Assistant.app. Microsoft Office Setup Assistant checks whether the DVD from which you installed is a volume licensed copy if it is, it silently populates that plist and quits (allowing the app you initially started to start up) if it is not, it prompts you for a product key and activation.

When you run Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook 2011, it checks /Library/Preferences/.plist. If you didn’t replace your installer ISO with a newer version, you will again need to apply the fix mentioned below when installing this update. UPDATE : The 14.3.2 updater again contains a removables.txt which breaks Microsoft Office Setup Assistant.app. The newer installer ships with flat-file Main.nib files that do not get removed by the removables.txt script. Copies of Office installed from it (or probably any 14.2.0+ installer ISO) do not exhibit the behavior explained here. UPDATE : I just obtained a copy of the 14.2.3 installer ISO from Microsoft VLSC. Since it requires 14.2.3 as a prerequisite, you’ll still need to apply the fix mentioned below to 14.2.3 when chaining updates. UPDATE : The 14.2.5 installer no longer has this weird behavior (it does not include removables.txt files at all, however the postinstall script would still process them if they were there).

Microsoft office 2011 for mac 14.2.4 update