AD Software installation

[JoelDee]

I have a peace of software that needs to be installed on 30 computers in a IT suite is there a way to push it out over the network rather than logging on to each individual computer, running setup.exe and then opening up the software to put in the licence key

Cheers

 

[Rob Clark]

yes, you have to make an msi script with all the required fields and apply it via the group policy for your ad

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Group-Policy-Deploy-Applications.html

 

[Andy.]

or use altiris instead.

 

[KDF]

I have a peace of software that needs to be installed on 30 computers in a IT suite is there a way to push it out over the network rather than logging on to each individual computer, running setup.exe and then opening up the software to put in the licence key

Cheers

First off.. you need this website in your bookmarks

http://www.appdeploy.com


Now..

Is the software in an MSI format ? if so

Open it up with Orca, go to the properties and set your serial number in there. You can also remove things like desktop shortcuts etc.

Create group policy and add select 'new package' make it an assigned package (not advertised). Select the package MSI. Now apply it to the correct OU or the correct users/group under the scope settings.

Reboot systems and software will automatically deploy with the correct serial.


Job done !




You can get Orca in the Windows SDK or if you don't want to download the whole thing just for orca (like me) just go here.

http://www.brentnorris.net/blog/?p=319



No msi ? If there is a big setup.exe and when you double click it its says extracting.. check your local settings folder as it will extract the msi from the setup.exe to your local folder and you can just grab it from there....