How To: Deploy MS Office to Mac
One of the biggest pains in deploying MS Office to OS X in a business or education environment is making sure that the serial number deploys too.
To do this, you need to also deploy the following files:
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.autoupdate2.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.error_reporting.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.setupassistant.plist
Deploying these files will keep also keep the initial setup assistant from running upon first launch.
Deployment can be via any of your normal methods, Apple Remote Desktop being the “Apple Preferred Way,” of course.