Hello,
Yes MSI technology is slower than other installation technologies (Inno Setup, NSIS, etc.) in any environment. Moreover it takes several month to master the art of creating good msi packages. (Even some Microsoft products are not delivered with an msi installer...) For Firefox we do not need repackaging because all the corporate settings are applied separately by another package. But if we needed repackaging we would certainly not use msi repackaging. For all our SCCM packages we create some script that launches the original installer (silent mode), then our script goes on and applies some corporate settings. By using the original installer we have a better chance to obtain a good (and standard) installation or upgrade and we do not spend much time in repackaging. (Yes some of them are .msi packages, we use them but do not try to modify them. Some of them have issues with re-installation, repair, upgrades... Our scripts have to deal with this.) For Firefox we do not disable the autoupdate: in the ESR branch, autoupdate only applies security fixes so why would we disable this? (By the way in our environment the FF auto-update is not efficient: only 50% updated systems after 3 weeks. So we re-deploy the new installation package with SCCM. It updates all the machines in 3 days, 12000 machines all over the world.) If we needed to disable autoupdate I suppose we would try installing with a .ini file containing "MaintenanceService=false" ( see here : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Installer:Command_Line_Arguments ) or figure out some other way to disable or uninstall it inside our script just after the installation.) Hope this will help :) -----Original Message----- From: Enterprise [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Timo Pietilä Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 15:40 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Legit Firefox MSI On 17.3.2016 12:53, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > The MSI installation technology is not mandatory for SCCM : We deploy > Firefox ESR with an SCCM package using the.exe installer. Our > installation script mainly launches the command "Firefox Setup > 38.7.0esr.exe -ms". It works to install for the 1^st time but also to > update an existing Firefox (Very quick installation or update: not > like > MSI...) Could you elaborate a bit that last point? Is msi somehow slower in your environment than exe? Or did you just mean that you don't need to repackage it? Do you add or change any prefs in FF using that (like disable autoupdate)? Timo Pietilä _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with a subject of "unsubscribe" _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message et ses pieces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou privilegiees et ne doivent donc pas etre diffuses, exploites ou copies sans autorisation. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le signaler a l'expediteur et le detruire ainsi que les pieces jointes. Les messages electroniques etant susceptibles d'alteration, Orange decline toute responsabilite si ce message a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. Merci. This message and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information that may be protected by law; they should not be distributed, used or copied without authorisation. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this message and its attachments. As emails may be altered, Orange is not liable for messages that have been modified, changed or falsified. Thank you.
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