Yeah, this isn’t the same repackaging – which can be hit or miss, depending on complexity. This basically creates an MSI that includes setup.exe and the initial command for the MSI is “setup /unattend” or whatever. The install wont be a real Windows Installer installation since it won’t support things like auto healing and advertisements and such, but it is a way to get an app installed through GP.
From: Harry Singh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Rod Trent Subject: Re: MSI deployment software I've had success with deploying MSI's via GPO. Thanks Rod. We had Zenworks a few years ago and they had an application that we used on occasion, but had limited success with making MSI's. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Rod Trent <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Practically any software installation/scripting technology can do that. SMS Installer will do that… http://myitforum.com/cs2/files/folders/sms2003/entry125224.aspx From: Harry Singh [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 1:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Crawford, Scott Subject: Re: MSI deployment software Which software application have you used to wrap a legacy install inside an MSI ? On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: You can also wrap a legacy install inside of an MSI. That would allow you to do your command line install with GPO. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSI deployment software Recently I needed to remotely deploy a small software package. The vendor did not support GPO because there was a special license code that had to be entered. It did, however, support command line. I was using PSExec and a small batch that I wrote to map a drive, copy the needed files, run the setup, then delete the files. It was more work than I had time for. I stumbled across a FREE product called PDQ Deploy. I was able to roll out the software very quickly with it. BF -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]<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. Thanks all. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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
