Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations Mike Lewis on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

We have a lot of remote users. They are bringing their laptops in next week, but we're not ready to deploy R5 yet. What should I do?

R5

We have a lot of remote users. They are bringing their laptops in next week, but we're not ready to deploy R5 yet. What should I do?

by  PghMikeH  Posted    (Edited  )
I've done this trick before, and it works really well. I assume that the hard drives have at least 100 MB free to accomplish this.

Copy the contents of the \clients\w32intel directory from the CD into some directory on the hard drive that your users won't easily find. I'm thinking something like c:\notes\upgrade.r5. This way, when you're ready to deploy R5 using the automated install, you can drop the setup.iss file into that directory via an e-mail message and then send out the automated upgrade message. Users won't need to do this over a dial-up connection because the installation files will be stored locally.
Register to add this FAQ to your archive
Register to rate this FAQ  : BAD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 GOOD
Please Note: 1 is Bad, 10 is Good :-)

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top