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Microsoft Office 2013 Post deployment updating

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We are using SCCM 2012 R2 to push out Office 2013 to all of our systems.  Up until 2 weeks ago, Office was being pushed with both Lync and Visio Viewer not available to the user, but Lync 2013 from a different package was being pushed.  I have found a useable script that is already setup that would do a silent uninstall of that version.  I want then to be able to then apply a post deployment update that will install Lync from the Office Suite that was used to initially deploy this. I also have update the MSP file so Office is now being deployed on new systems with Lync installed the way it was intended. I also found that I could go and modify the config.xml file within the office suite which would also update and add Lync once it is removed. Here is what I update:

<Configuration Product="ProPlus">

                <Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes"

AcceptEula="yes" />

               <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office

Professional Plus Setup(*).txt" />

               <USERNAME Value="Company Name" />

                <COMPANYNAME Value="Company Name" />

                <!-- <INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Office" /> -->

                <!-- <LIS CACHEACTION="CacheOnly" /> -->

                <!-- <LIS SOURCELIST="\\server1\share\Office;\\server2\share\Office" /> -->

                <!-- <DistributionPoint Location="\\server\share\Office" /> -->

               <OptionState Id="LyncCoreFiles" State="local" Children="force" />

                <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" />

                <!-- <Command Path="%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\server\share

\my.msi" QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" /> -->

</Configuration>

Those that are highlighted are what I changed to effect this update.

Here is where I run into my confusion.  I already have a package with Office setup to install correctly in a task sequence, but how do I apply this without breaking the other.  Do I have to make an additional copy of the office folder and use that then to make the updates post deployment?  I know that the task sequence is using the MSP file, so I don't want to break that by putting this back in its original location.  If I place it in the root of where Office resides then I should be able to use: \\server\share\Office15\setup.exe /config and create a new application package to push out the above update to install Lync. 

Thank You for any assistance........

Mark Reny

 

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