RE: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software

From: Pete Jacob (pjacob@ftmc.com)
Date: 11/28/01 

From: "Pete Jacob" <pjacob@ftmc.com>
To: "Stefan Osterlitz" <ostrlitz@blox.de>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:36:56 -0500
Message-ID: <CEEPJBGCICLLEAEMDMCFMECCCFAA.pjacob@ftmc.com>

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Jacob [mailto:pjacob@ftmc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 12:20 PM
To: Stefan Osterlitz; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software

look in the resource kit...

there are MS utilitys to create .MSI packages out of
anything... even non MS packages...

Pete.
-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Osterlitz [mailto:ostrlitz@blox.de]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:47 AM
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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