How to get/download a full version of IE6 for later install 1

[rjkrash]

This link at Microsoft tells you how:

Download-Only Setup of Internet Explorer on Windows 2000 and Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q257/2/49.ASP

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[Masterpjz9]

you have to download the IE 6 Administration Kit which is available at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ieak/default.asp

 

[rjkrash]

No you don't, the link shows how you first download the little setup app like normal, then you use the setup app to just download, NOT INSTALL, a full version of IE6 to a directory on your disk. You don't have to download the admin kit. Read the link you'll understand.
The two rules for success are:
1. Never tell them everything you know.

 

[Masterpjz9]

the IEAK 6 downloads the setup files automatically and will put them in an output folder for you, but you can also choose what to include and you can customize it.

 

[rjkrash]

Ok, I knew that. I was just talking about how to download a standard copy with none of the other IEAk 6 stuff.
The two rules for success are:
1. Never tell them everything you know.

 

[dilettante]

rjkrash -

You're right. I thought this was fairly common knowledge myself, but it appears to be quite confusing for people.

We went through the same thing at work when our box jockeys went into a Nimda panic back in September. All they could do was tell people to upgrade IE (I think it was IE 5.2 at the time) and they passes them the regular public download link.

Using the technique described in the article you reference above would have allowed them download ONE copy of the full install package. This package could have been deployed to building-local public (maintenance/support) file servers throughout the organization. Then simply direct users to install from these "Y:\ drive" sources.

Instead, we flooded out network AND the public Internet with over 1000 web-setups of IE!

I tried to forestall this early by providing these guys with the information above, but they just didn't get it. I even downloaded the full setup for them and "handed" it to them. No dice.

I'm raging far off topic here, but this is just one more example of how dissatisfied I am with "network administrators" as a class. When it isn't something like this it is something like having to configure FTP services for them, or showing them how to use Windows Scheduler, or what to look for in NT logs, or explaining (for the nth time) how IP subnetting works.

And about a third of the "administrators" I have to deal with are MSCEs!

Something is very wrong out here.

I guess I just miss the days when the career path to administration involved knowledge of fundamentals and experience as a systems programmer before they handed you the keys to the kingdom. Today the career path seems to be "fetch and carry PCs," "install simples PC applications," "take a couple 3 day classes," and you're in!

"Flame off!"

 

[dilettante]

Gee, maybe the answer is decaf, huh? Look at all the typos above! ;-)

 

[Hungster]

What i had been doing is the collect the IE 6 upgrade from downloading for a couple machine

i collected 3 versions, from Win2k, Win NT, Win 98
thru one upgrade, it puts it in the Windows update folder and just copy it over and i put them onto a cd where i can install them onto the client machine rather than sitting there downloading everytime

Hung

 

[kelsen]

"Gee, maybe the answer is decaf, huh? Look at all the typos above!"

FWIW, there were only two typos in his entire message; the first being a word left out - "have allowed them download ONE copy", missing the word 'to', the second where he had the word 'out' where he meant 'our' - one letter off, and a very common typo, as the 'r' and 't' are next to one another.

I'm not sure I understand the gist of your comment.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen.
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If at first you don't succeed, try management.

 

[Hungster]

yayaya, you get the idea

lol
Mr. Perfect Speller