Questions about software installation

[Lorrec]

I am new to working with VBScripting and thought I would post here for some assistance. Any help would be appreciated.

Currently, I have a script that installs Adobe Reader 8 from a central server. I am going to deploy the script through SMS and would like to set it up to pull the files locally instead of from the central server. Below is the code I have been using. Is it possible to make it pull from the SMS distribution points with changing each script manually? For example, using a %inst% or something like that.

'-------------------------------------------
' Installing AdobeReader8
'-------------------------------------------
function InstReader8()

Set msi = CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer")

msi.UILevel = 2

msi.InstallProduct "\\centralsms0\software\AdobeAcrobatReader8.0AcroRead.msi", "TRANSFORMS=\\centralsms0\software\AdobeAcrobatReader8.0\AcroRead.mst"

Set msi = Nothing

End Function

 

[BillDoor]

Yes, if all the files are in the same folder then you could just use the folder names:

msi.InstallProduct "AdobeAcrobatReader8.0AcroRead.msi", "TRANSFORMS=AcroRead.mst"

if that doesn't work you can get the script to figure out where it is and insert the path into the function:

Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
MyPath = objShell.CurrentDirectory
...
msi.InstallProduct MyPath & "\AdobeAcrobatReader8.0AcroRead.msi", "TRANSFORMS=" & MyPath & "\AcroRead.mst"

However you shouldn't need to use a script to perform the install with SMS, if you put the following directly in the SMS command line field, it should work:

msiexec /qn /i AdobeAcrobatReader8.0AcroRead.msi /t AcroRead.mst

 

[BillDoor]

Forgot to add, you will need to set the advertisement to download the install files from the Distribution point.

 

[Lorrec]

Thanks for the quick reply. I will try it right away.