I tested the Office 2013 Deployment Tool today, and discovered an interesting phenomenon. The first time I asked it to download the installation media, I had only enabled the Add element, the one that specifies the products and edition to download. I left all the other elements, including Updates, commented out.
When I tried to use the tool in /configure mode to set up Office on another computer, it failed, leaving a message in the log about not being able to find a certain CAB file in the installation media. That file was in fact absent.
After a bit of trial and error, I found that enabling the Updates element for the /download phase seemed to make the tool download more/bigger files, including the one that had been absent. It's entirely possible that I did something wrong, but maybe it's required to declare whether you're getting updates?
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