RE: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software

From: Joe Lefort (jlefort@pangaeainc.com)
Date: 11/29/01 

Subject: RE: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:27:31 -0700
Message-ID: <F1FE0975313D3E4CADE8891F84A932EC148B@cenmsg1.centientsolutions.com>
From: "Joe Lefort" <jlefort@pangaeainc.com>
To: "Sata" <sata@infierno.cl>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>

Please note: going from memory here...

On the Win2000 server CD, in a 3rdparty or extras folder there is a
wininstall or installshield LE package you can use to create MSI's.
These can then be deployed via Group Policy or scripts... It is not the
prettiest packager, but it's better than the one you aren't using...

Joe

  
-----Original Message-----
From: Sata [mailto:sata@infierno.cl]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:46 AM
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software

Im actually watching this very closely, I have your exact same problem
=)
Anyway I have managed to fix some part of the problem through the
customized
Office installation. In the section where you specify aditional
aplications
to be installed, I specify Sp2 and whatever I like, like Acrobat Reader
or
Winzip.

Sata

----- Original Message -----
From: <Thor@HammerofGod.com>
To: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:37 AM
Subject: RE: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software

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> At 12:36 PM 11/28/2001 -0500, Pete Jacob wrote:
>
> >look in the resource kit...
> >
> >there are MS utilitys to create .MSI packages out of
> >anything... even non MS packages...
>
> Could you be a bit more specific? I have looked all through the
resource
> kit and can't find any .msi package creation tools. Veritas has
WinLite
> (or something) software that ships with Windows to create .msi files-
but
> then, you are to start with a 'clean' PC, take Discovery snapshots and
> build the .msi files like that- a *royal* PITA. I have messaged
around
> with it a bit, and tried other methods of building packages, but it
seems
> that you have to buy the full version for any real functionality.
>
> I too think that hotfixes, SP's, and other install packages not being
in
> MSI format is uncool. Why should I have to run SMS to distribute
software
> when Group Policy allows me to do it so easily (and without additional
> cost, administration, and security concerns).
>
> Is anyone else actually *doing* this and happy with a method of easily
> creating .msi packages from .exe setup files?
>
> Thanks
> AD
>
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