Sounds like you are doing exactly what we have done and implemented in our environment. We have an Intranet web page that the individual site admins/help desk staff can goto to perform silent, unattended installations of every software we allow in our company. We put this web page in the Trusted Sites category for IE. I believe we also installed an ActiveX component on the client "Image" before deployed the systems. Everything from there is just VBScript. This allows us the opportunity to log info as admins install software. We have records saved (UserID of installer, Time/Date, Title of software installed, Computer-Name) every time another installation is launched.
We setup all the installations to be silent and unattended. This took/takes quite a bit of work. We essentially repackage almost every installation into custom created EXEs that if ran with /s will not require any input from interactive user. We have found many advantages to using this system. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:34 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Batch woes > Check out the PushD and PopD commands. Also, I have seen > batch file move to fast for the Net Use command. Even tho you > may not be using the mapped drive, it thinks that you still > are by the time your Net use /d comes along. You can do one > of two things. PushD and PopD worked very well for this problem, thanks! Secondly . . . Has anyone seen any "Bat2EXE" freeware utilities around that will actually convert a Batch file to a .EXE file, rather than a .COM file? It may sound strange but I think people might be a little scared of launching a .BAT file from their intranet to install some software, and I think they will be more comfortable launching a .EXE file. OR ...! Alternatively, does anyone know *HOW* you go about creating say, an installer applet that can be installed into Internet Explorer that I can use to launch the installer programs automatically without having to have the user click "Open" for each of them? Ultimately, I'd like to have my users be able to click the "Execute" link and have that link launch automatically in the browser with no user interaction. Since it's our Intranet it's a perfectly safe environment for something like this to happen. How can this be done? It would be extremely useful for using the Intranet as a front end to install software and load word templates, etc. Regards, -- Adam Smith Information Technology Officer SAGE Automation Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sageautomation.com Phone : (08) 8276 0703 Fax : (08) 8276 0799 Mobile: 0414 895 273 ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
