RE: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software

From: Kinnee, Erick (KinneeE@ci.fort-worth.tx.us)
Date: 11/28/01 

Message-ID: <8523FAFA55851A45BC7F11A34FE363D6B96B56@es907.ci.fort-worth.tx.us>
From: "Kinnee, Erick" <KinneeE@ci.fort-worth.tx.us>
To: 'Stefan Osterlitz' <ostrlitz@blox.de>, "'focus-ms@securityfocus.com'" <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:51:13 -0600

 
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If you do use SMS to deploy software the newest SMS Installer can
create new and convert older SMS packages to .msi format.
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/smsmgmt/downloads/installer.asp

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From: Stefan Osterlitz [mailto:ostrlitz@blox.de]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 09:47
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: FW: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software

I am glad that MS has used the release of Win2K to add software
deployment functionality to their OS. What bugs me is that they still
don't deploy all their soft as .msi packages.

You can't distribute all your soft, such as Hotfixes, Service Packs,
Language Packs, component updates or the Internet Explorer via GPO
objects. What about soft like frontpage, project, et al. ?

My question to the experts: would it be possible to

a) call any .exe setup, that has a "hands off"-mode (like IE
packages) directly via goup policy

b) create a dummy .msi package that calls one or more .exe files in
sequence and sets registry values/copies files after that (someone
have one ready?)

c) have microsoft publish all their soft as .msi ?

How do you distribute your software?
- - batch files ( with semaphore files? )
- - systems management server
- - group policy
- - third party software

Stefan Osterlitz
BloX.AG

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