You never know - Matt works for a school, and I hear MS has pretty decent discounts for NPOs and Educational customers.
Just making sure we put all the options out there... Jim -----Original Message----- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSI deployment software Well, yeah. Perfect solution, but It may be overkill for Matt though. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSI deployment software 6) SCCM Not free, cheap or easy - but pretty reliable. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com -----Original Message----- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSI deployment software Forgot a couple -- both free and cheap. :) (4) Link sent in email to a network share (5) Custom Intranet page linking to MSI The big issue with free, is that you have no way of knowing if the installation was successful, if there were any issues until the user calls, etc. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MSI deployment software Hey list, I know of only a few ways to deploy software that is packaged in an MSI: (1) Launching the MSI at the console. (2) Using PSTool's PSExec to run it remotely from the command line. (3) Using Group Policy. (1) is tedious for large groups of computers, (2) is not simple nor does it run in parallel, and (3) seems a bit heavy handed in this case. Is there a utility that allows me to remotely deploy a .MSI installer? Hopefully something free/cheap. 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