Unattended Software Installations

[FJC148]

My organisation wants to use SMS to distribute software to clients throughout the network. However they want it accomplished with little or preferably no end user interaction.

I've used the standard package and advertisement options but they often seem to require quite a degree of input from the user.

Is this easy to accomplish through SMS? If so could someone give some tips on how to do this, or point me to a useful website detailing how I go about it?

Thanks

 

[tbrennans]

Most msi's can be configured to use a transform file that will be used to answer all "questions" an install can ask.

This along with the proper switches will make an install silent.

 

[ncotton]

This site has wrappers for most common apps, otherwise will guide you to creating your own wrapper.

http://www.appdeploy.com/

Neil J Cotton
Technical Consultant
Anix Group Ltd