[wpkg-users] [Bug 141] Unable to install client through software group policy

[Peter Gough]

AFAIK in MS world it doesn't really matter. You can use switches if you're
installing packages using scripts.but if you assign a package via GP then
the user sees a message at startup or logon telling them that Windows is
installing (or removing) a package. Obviously this isn't a true silent
install but I've never met a user who complained about it.

Quite happy to be corrected on this but that's the way I've always seen it
done.

Peter

2009/3/16 Chris Wilcox <not_rich_yet at hotmail.com>

>  Hi,
>
> I'm not a big user of the AD for package allocation but as far as I was
> aware you can specify parameters to use during installation when using the
> AD?
>
> If not then how do you do silent installs of MSI's?  That uses additional
> parameters (e.g. /q) so the parameters needed to roll out the WPKG client
> should be fine to use?
>
> Not all MSI apps use MST files to set install parameters...
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:10:37 +1100
> From: pmgough at gmail.com
> To: bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.wpkg.org
> CC: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 141] Unable to install client through
> software group policy
>
>
> The MS approach is that you must use transform files (.mst) to modify the
> package. There are apps which will let you work with these (Orca and InstEd
> both spring to mind) but there is no way to directly enter command line
> switches in AD.
>
> Peter
>
> On 16/03/2009, *bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.wpkg.org* <
> bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.wpkg.org> wrote:
>
> http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Comment #4 from Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org>  2009-03-15
> 14:01:44 ---
> I think we could do it.
>
> Although it's really hard for me to believe that Active Directory really
> does
> not allow setting parameters to MSI packages it deploys via GPO.
>
> What a system for deploying MSI packages it is if it can't really deploy
> MSI
> packages?
>
> Every second MSI installer has such parameters - activation key, inf file
> with
> settings, other options.
>
>
> Did anyone try asking at a Windows-specific mailing list if such parameters
> are
> somehow settable via GPO?
>
>
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