RE: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software

From: Paul L Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Date: 11/30/01 

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:44:34 -0600
From: Paul L Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Deploying Hotfixes, SPs and other Software
Message-ID: <860934207.1007124274@pc47794.campus.ad.utdallas.edu>

Microsoft makes a free MSI tool called Orca. With Orca you can edit any of
the fields in an MSI file, which allows you complete control over an
install sequence. I recommend downloading the entire Installer SDK, which
includes Orca along with several other tools for creating installs.

See the following KBs (URLs may wrap):
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q255905
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/app_0j
8l.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q306439
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/app_93
03.asp

Paul L. Schmehl, pauls@utdallas.edu
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
Supervisor, Support Services
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member

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