[wpkg-users] using psexec to push client

[Paul McGrath]

It is a combination of things, psexec wants quotes around your command and windows wants quotes around the filename which has spaces in it.  You also have to put \" infront of embedded quotes (quotes within quotes).

something like this:
c:\PsTools\psexec -u usdsu.local\username -p password @ucs186.xml -d "msiexec /i \"\\usdsu.local\storage\its\uc-its\wpkg\WPKG Client 1.2.1.msi\" --SETTINGSFILE=\\usdsu.local\storage\its\uc-its\wpkg\settings.xml /qb"


You could just remove the spaces from the file name

c:\PsTools\psexec -u usdsu.local\username -p password @ucs186.xml -d "msiexec /i \\usdsu.local\storage\its\uc-its\wpkg\WPKGClient1.2.1.msi --SETTINGSFILE=\\usdsu.local\storage\its\uc-its\wpkg\settings.xml /qb"

Hope that helps

Check it just for one machine first without the computer list xml file
Paul

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From: wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org [wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Petersen, Tom [Tom.Petersen at sduniversitycenter.org]
Sent: 09 October 2009 20:56
To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
Subject: [wpkg-users] using psexec to push client

I am new to all of this but actually managed to get things working for the most part using the documentation online.
Once the client is installed my packages install ok.

I tried using this to push the client:
c:\PsTools\psexec -u usdsu.local\username -p password @ucs186.xml -d msiexec /i "\\usdsu.local\storage\its\uc-its\wpkg\WPKG Client 1.2.1.msi" /qb SETTINGSFILE=\\usdsu.local\storage\its\uc-its\wpkg\settings.xml

(replacing username and password with the correct ones)

I then get this for all 32 machines. (correct machine names, and different process ID on each of the 32 machines)
\\UCS18602:

msiexec started on UCS18602 with process ID 692.


That is all I get, not sure if I was supposed to get any feedback on if it was successful or not.  And the client is not installed on the machines.  Is there a way to look at that process id somewhere???

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, hope this is the right place to post this question.

TIA!
Tom