Agreed, but the one big advantage is that you can deploy the wrapped setup.exe with a GPO without having to use scripts.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO msi packages On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:21 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I am learning GPO's, I think. > How do I make a .msi from a setup.exe??? The short answer is, you can't, not really. You can make an "MSI" that wraps a SETUP.EXE and will fire it off, but in doing so, you loose all of the benefits of an MSI, so why bother? However, many SETUP.EXE's actually include a "real" MSI inside them. 7-Zip will unpack many of them. The resources others have posted are still good. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
