Internet Explorer 6 SP1 GPO Deployment

[Teccy]

I was wondering if anyone has had any luck in rolling out IE6 SP1 via GPO. The MSI wrapper that MS supply:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=810011

still requires an admin to logon, although it is at least a step in the right direction I still refuse to pay the support costs just for the privilege of downloading something that doesn't even work as it should.
I would like to be able to roll it out using GPO as I do with my other software, such as Office XP to my Windows 2000 workstations, and not have to go around to each of the machines and have to logon in order for the installation to complete.
Has anyone had any luck in producing a properly working MSI for IE6?

 

[ReddLefty]

I spent 3 weeks trying to figure it out and make an MSI, but for one, I couldn't find any MSI installations of IE6, so I ended up making a large batch file that installs IE 6 SP1 and all the patches for Win2K / IE6.

Here is what I ended up doing:

- Used the IEAK (Internet Explorer Administration Kit) to extract a copy of the IE I wanted with the setting I desired.

- In the batch file, I simply run the following command from a shared network folder:

Rem Check for IE 6
if exist == "c:\program files\internet explorer\readme.txt" goto ie6installed
Echo Need to install IE6 SP1
y:
cd\"Internet Explorer 6 SP1"
call &quot;\\<server>\software setup\Internet Explorer 6 SP1\ie6setup.exe&quot; /q:u /r:s
pause
goto ie6installed

:ie6installed
<continue batch file>


This launches an unattended setup that will reboot automatically after the installation is completed.


The latest service pack for Windows 2K must be installed prior to installation of IE6 also.


This might not be the best way, but it works for me. I think IE 6 integrates too much into the Windows 2k operating system and it cannot just use an MSI package install itself. Just like the patches... I need to run those in the batch file also, but since these are things you install only once and that are never removed, I do them during the initial setup of the computer. This might not be the best solution if you have 1000 computers, but for a couple of hundred, it does the trick.