That's right, since WPKG is essentially the same as SMS, some applications need to use "SMS Mode" to install properly. We found this to be the case with AutoCAD 2010 products... check the AutoCAD Deployment help files, they are quite detailed and useful. I believe the /W switch has something to do with "waiting" until all the other dependencies are installed before returning the installation is complete... We use the workdir and %SOFTWARE% variable to make our "Install Commands" more human-readable and not as long... WPKG Express allows you to do this very simply... Cant imagine the pain in having to edit XML files for our 300 hosts, 40 packages (some with 7 or more install commands) and 30 profiles... Very easy to manage in a web interface. Cheers, Damian Hi Mark, On 19.04.2010 07:00, Mark Nienberg wrote: > Interesting. Can you explain what "SMS mode" is? And what is the > workdir used for? SMS refers to the Microsoft Systems Management Server. More information can be found here <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Center_Configuration_Manager>. The workdir attribute is used by WPKG in order to switch the working directory of the command to the specified folder. In this case it's used in order to execute the installation binary within the setup source folder and allows to specify relative paths to the INI file. Just note that using the "%SOFTWARE%" variable within the workdir attribute might not always work since UNC paths are not supported by all installers/scripts/binaries as a working path. For example cmd.exe will not accept an UNC working directory. br, Rainer |