[Unattended] Parameters for automating application installation.

2003-11-11 Thread DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1)
In our win2000 clients we often have to install software that requires the input of some parameters in order to customize the user connection data. Is there a way to easily add additional questions in the initial phase of the Unattended installation in order to provide extra parameters that could

RE: [Unattended] Creating Dial-Up connections during installation.

2003-11-11 Thread Administrator
I use dial up magic, which is a small program that makes an exe file to duplicate an existing DUN connectoid, it is cheap and seems to work reasonably well, the home page is http://www.techmagic.com/ I run the resulting .exe by hand since it only applies to very few of my machines, but I see no

[Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

2003-11-11 Thread Steven D. Pretlove
Title: Message Hi all, when todo.pl processes .reboot (or one of its variations) it places the run command in theHKCU Run reg key I have need to set the computer to logon as a administrator (using autolog.pl), reboot the machine, log on as admin, install program, clear autologon and then

RE: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

2003-11-11 Thread Administrator
Title: Message I do something similar, but I have a shutdown script make the registry change, the system has permission to change the registry. In my case it is triggered by a change to a central database (a grand name for a shared ini file), however you could use any trigger you like. as

RE: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

2003-11-11 Thread Kevin P. Jacobson
ASP can execute, but it will execute at the server because ASP is server- side. Change the *WWW Service* to allow it to interact with the desktop, and set the IIS web that is hosting the ASP page to a Low Process so things are executed as SYSTEM, not IUSR_MACHINE_NAME. That will allow for

RE: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

2003-11-11 Thread Steven D. Pretlove
This was how I was spawning the process % Sub tst() strComputer = ACOMPUTER Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts: _ {impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\ strComputer \root\cimv2:Win32_Process) 'process = c:\netinst\mapznrun.bat z:\bin\todo.pl install.bat Error =

[Unattended] Automating RAS connections

2003-11-11 Thread AMagnay
Checkout Microsoft Connection Manager Administration Kit, you'll find it in Add/Remove windows components on W2k Server. It was also in NT4 Option pack. With it you can create a dailler with phonebook and pre post connection commands. Eg after connecting you can make it run a login script, fetch

Re: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

2003-11-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Steven D. Pretlove [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My first attempt was to create an asp page that created the remote process on the clients machine running the mapznrun program under its context, but microsoft has put a stop to that by not allowing the spawned process to interact with the desktop.

RE: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

2003-11-11 Thread Steven D. Pretlove
Pat, There is no failure the procedure works fine, see my last post for example. The only problem is that it does not all the user to see whats going on, so I can not trouble shoot when something goes wrong, when testing I was running the mapznrun batch file with a batch file that contained

RE: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

2003-11-11 Thread Steven D. Pretlove
P.s See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/ wmi/win32_process.asp For info on the w32_process.create method Steve (01908) 580623 -Original Message- From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 November 2003 16:03 To:

Re: [Unattended] Parameters for automating application installation.

2003-11-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to easily add additional questions in the initial phase of the Unattended installation in order to provide extra parameters that could be then be available during the execution of the application installation scripts?

Re: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

2003-11-11 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Steven D. Pretlove [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only problem is that it does not all the user to see whats going on, so I can not trouble shoot when something goes wrong, when testing I was running the mapznrun batch file with a batch file that contained three lines todo.pl .restart