Rather than using psexec with these silent install programs (and lots of stuff will silently install, particularly installshield) I've used the "windows installer wrapper wizard" - http://www.sywan.nl/download/
This allows you to specify a program to be run by the MSI (basically, it creates an MSI with a custom action) and gives a painless way to make MSIs from standard installs. http://www.jordanmills.com/deploy.asp has a similar product (Universal MSI wrapper) Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Jessop > Sent: 19 July 2005 16:50 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Logon script with Admin rights > > There is simple way of doing this that works if > a) the .exe has a quiet option (-q for example) with no gui output > b) it is not necessary to install the program from a logon script > > > Simply install the program from another machine using > psexec.exe i.e logon remote machine with sufficient > privileges and run psexec -c \\remotemachine "install.exe -q" > where install.exe is the installation program > > This method has several advantages if you put it in a script > 1) It can easily be extended to install over a range of computers > 2) You can get feedback as to whether it has installed or not. > > As Rick points out preparing .msi files has it's drawbacks, > not least of which is access to a clean machine to prepare it on. > > > Regards > > Peter Jessop > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
