Re: MS01-056

From: Tony Chow (tchow@BLUETENTACLE.COM)
Date: 11/21/01 

Message-ID:  <50B30C640EC48648ABAA34F00D737A9605A539@leto.bluetentacle.local>
Date:         Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:09:32 -0800
From: Tony Chow <tchow@BLUETENTACLE.COM>
Subject:      Re: MS01-056
To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM

Both MS01-55 and MS01-56 installation programs seem to be
Iexpress-based, which means that they support the following switches. I
have used the /q and /r:n switches to automate the installation of both
of these fixes.

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Switches Supported

/Q Bypasses all prompts, error messages, and file extraction animation.
This is
close to Acme/Q1 mode. /Q: defaults to /Q.

/Q:1 Bypasses all prompts except file extraction animation and error
messages.

/QA Assumes that the person running the application is an administrator
or anSMS
and does no checking for administrator rights, disk space and so on. No
prompts
and no errors.

/QU User Quiet Assumes that the application is being used by an end user
but
automated to be semi-quiet.

/R: Restarts OS when complete.

/T: Provides a path to point decompressed files to other than the TEMP
folder.

/C: Calls a different INF file or application then the default specified
in the
CAB file.

/N:Makes Wextract skip setup steps such as file extraction. /? Describes
lists
of possible switches

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What Each Switch Does
/Q Bypasses all prompts, error messages, and file extraction animation
With this mode, administrators would be able to automate basic processes
and
avoid user choices for most cases.

/Q:1 Bypasses all prompts except file extraction animation and error
messages.
With this mode, administrators will be able to see errors occurring in
the
extraction process or examine the file extraction phase.

/QA Assumes user is Admin or SMS. Bypasses all prompts, error messages,
and file
extraction animation
With this mode, administrators would be able to automate basic processes
and
avoid user choices for most cases. Does no checking for adminstrator
rights,
disk space, and so on.

/QU Assumes user is an end user but bypasses extraction animations.
Still checks
for disk space and admin rights
With this mode, users would be able to run in a semi-Quiet mode. Used
when
IExpress packages are shipped on CDs or installed through ActiveSetup.

/R Control or force restart
Administrators would also like the ability to force a restart. This
ensures the
update takes effect right way. This issue was not fixed for SP1 silent
mode CAB
we provided.

Administrators can control the restart logic with the following entries:

R = /R:A (Default)

/R:= /R:A (Default)

/R:N -- Never reboot, overrides INF settings in package

/R:A -- Always reboot, prompt user with reboot choice

/R:I -- Reboot if needed, prompt user with reboot choice

/R:AS -- Always reboot , silent and don't prompt user

/R:IS -- Silent reboot if needed, silent and don't prompt user

/T:"temp dir full path" Provides a path to point decompressed files to
other
than TEMP
With this switch administrators can work around any problems with TEMP
directory
issues. This mainly has been requested though so that CabPack could be
used to
expand files and just drop them in a directory. If the author could
leave the
execution line blank this could be used to expand files in friendly
manner to a
specific folder. Not delete after Wextract is done. /T without colon is
invalid
and will return user to /? command help.

If the directory specified does not exist, wextract will create it and
remove it
after using the files, if the user does not also specify to leave
extracted
files on the system( /C: ).

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