Office 2011 Installation tarball
              for version 14.7.7
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                       11/10/2017

Office 2011 14.7.7  supports a wide-range of macos - from Leopard to 
the current High Sierra.

The tarball here, Office-2011.tgz, contains the apps for Office 2011 14.7.7
plus the supporting files.  MS now says this is the last update for 
Office 2011.  Our version came from an install of the original Office 2011 
volume licensing updated to  14.1.0  which then allows the install of the 
cumulative update package Office2011-14.7.7-Update.pkg.  We had first 
install the cumulative package  Office2011-14.7.1-Update.pkg, but this
is not required.  You can update to 14.7.7  from 14.1.0.

Our tarball contains the necessary licensing for these Office apps.

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LOCATION (not for public distribution)
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http://localweb.cns.nyu.edu/unixadmin/Office2011-distro/
  and
/share/erda/macos/.soft/.ab/office/Office2011/

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INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
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Execute the following with root privileges.

Install:
# tar xzf /share/erda/macos/.soft/.ab/office/Office2011/Office-2011.tgz -C /
  or
# tar xzf ~/Downloads/Office-2011.tgz -C /

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LICENSING
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The "licensing helper" daemon must be running otherwise the
Office apps will ask for a license key.  So either restart the machine
or launch/restart com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist.

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UNINSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
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If you need to uninstall, just remove the items in  Office-2011.tgz 
that are listed below.  As root, do rm -rf  on the list of items
below which you may carefully copy and paste.

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BUILDING THE TARBALL
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Don't build the tarballs with absolute paths.  We now put everything
into one tarball.

# cd /
# tar czf Office-2011.tgz  Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011 Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft Library/Fonts/Microsoft Library/Spotlight/Microsoft\ Office.mdimporter Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/SharePoint*plugin private/var/db/receipts/com.microsoft.*14.*

Licensing tarball
# cd /
# tar czf Office-2011-licensing.tgz Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist


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ORIGINAL INSTALL
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- install the package from the volume licensed dvd
- install 14.1.0 cumulative update or higher
- install the 14.7.7 cumulative update

# installer -pkg Office_Installer.mpkg -target /
# installer -pkg Office2011-14.1.0-Update.mpkg -target /
# installer -pkg Office2011-14.7.7-Update.pkg -target /


Command-line install:
The first one must be done from a root console login.  The reason is that
either a preinstall or postinstall script launches a GUI app
Microsoft Office Setup Assistant.app  that runs for couple of seconds
and quits.  I suspect it does the volume licensing.  
The other two may be done from any root privilege shell.

GUI install
Double click on the packages from an admin user.


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UPDATING OUR LEGACY DISTRO
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The version we were distributing previously was  14.1.4.
To update it, you could just delete the items in the above
tarball and then install the current Office-2011.tgz.
This assumes no one has installed any Office extensions
into the old version.

You could also do the Office updates via the MS autoupdater.
However some Office updater may kill the volume licensing
and the Office apps will then ask to be activated.  In that
case, try installing the licensing tarball.


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REFERENCES
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Office 2011
14.7.7  culmulative update requires 14.1.0 or later and Leopard or above.
 
Cumulative Updates for Office 2011
14.7.7
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55942
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/messaging_with_communications/2017/10/17/current-cumulative-updates-for-office-q4-2017/

14.7.1
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3198808
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54504
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/messaging_with_communications/2017/01/03/current-cumulative-updates-for-office-q1-2017/

For Office 2016 and 2011
MS Update history for Mac
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Update-history-for-Office-2016-for-Mac-700cab62-0d67-4f23-947b-3686cb1a8eb7

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LICENSING IN DETAIL
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To license, just launch the MS license daemon via the appropriate
command below.

$msplist = com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
# launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/$msplist
or
# launchctl bootstrap system /Library/LaunchDaemons/$msplist

Or if it is running already, then reload it.
# launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/$msplist
# launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/$msplist
or
# launchctl kickstart -k system/com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper

If licensing has been whacked, install the following and then
reload the licensing daemon.
# tar xzf /share/erda/macos/.soft/.ab/office/Office2011/Office-2011-licensing.tgz -C /

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LICENSE KEY
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We do have a volume license key but I never had to use it.
Installing the volume licensed Office 2011 packages seems to
install the licensing.