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joseo128

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Aug 27, 2009
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Hi there,

I just installed Office 2008 on Mac OS X 10.5.8, but I can't seem to get the system to detect Office updates; it won't even detect Office 2008 SP1. Every time I try to get Office to detect new updates, it gives me the following message:

There are no updates available for your Microsoft software at this time. Please check again later.

...which is funny because there obviously ARE new updates. I know that I can simply download the updates manually from the Microsoft support site (which I did to install SP1), but I am curious as to what the source of the problem is, and if it can be fixed. I have had Office 2008 installed on the same machine before, but had to reinstall it. Before reinstalling, it detected updates just fine. Now it won't!

I also installed the most recent version of Microsoft Autoupdate 2.1.1, but it didn't seem to work. Any ideas?

Thanks!
 
Hi there,

I just installed Office 2008 on Mac OS X 10.5.8, but I can't seem to get the system to detect Office updates; it won't even detect Office 2008 SP1. Every time I try to get Office to detect new updates, it gives me the following message:

There are no updates available for your Microsoft software at this time. Please check again later.

...which is funny because there obviously ARE new updates. I know that I can simply download the updates manually from the Microsoft support site (which I did to install SP1), but I am curious as to what the source of the problem is, and if it can be fixed. I have had Office 2008 installed on the same machine before, but had to reinstall it. Before reinstalling, it detected updates just fine. Now it won't!

I also installed the most recent version of Microsoft Autoupdate 2.1.1, but it didn't seem to work. Any ideas?

Thanks!

I've encountered this situation too.
I downloaded the update of service pack 2 manually.
But, the result is that the update failed, since it cannot search the MS office on my hard disk.
I am looking for anyone else to solve this problem.
 
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