Hello,

We deploy Office 2013 via the volume licensing ISO however this ISO is RTM. I am aware of the updates folder and putting the updates in there. The problem is there are so many hotfixes for office and there doesn't appear to be a cumulative update for it? So rather than download every hotfix from RTM and extracting it is there an easier way to get a fully patched iso?

I'm probably missing something but even my google skills are letting me down!

Thanks

Rob

"Office 2013 with SP1" as an ISO, is available from VLSC. But that's basically the RTM with the SP1 MSPfiles unpacked into the \Updates\ folder, last time I checked ;)

The Office team abandoned the concept of slipstreaming or re-baselining, a long time, AFAIK.

We also use Office2013ProfessionalPlus, and have a similar as-yet-unsatisfied challenge.

Office365ProPlus C2R doesn't suffer this problem, if you grab the monthly "build" via download and then deploy that, instead of a previous "build".

I don't have a great answer for you, but there are a few ambiguous/confusing/contradictory articles around the web, which may enlighten you a little bit.

It seems to me that for the Office client software suite, the Office team uses words like "cumulative" and "rollup" in slightly different ways to other MSFT product/engineering teams [e.g. the Windows team, the SQL Server team]..

http://blogs.technet.com/b/gray_knowlton/archive/2013/08/07/how-office-updates.aspx

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/824684 
[Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates]

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn789213(v=office.14)
[After the December 2014 CU, all updates will be included in the PU. CUs will no longer be released.]

http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/

If you figure it out, let us know ;)