Re: Silent install of security patch
From: Stefan Kanthak (postmaster@[127.0.0.1)
Date: 12/28/02
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From: "Stefan Kanthak" <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 05:07:43 +0100
"Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com> wrote:
> "Qaisar" <qaisar784@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:079a01c2adc9$0b0cb890$d6f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA13...
> > I am trying to install a security patch
> > q329414_mdacall_x86.exe in silent mode using the switch "-
> > q -r:n" but it still prompts three dialog boxes. Any idea.
>
> Those switches vary from Q patch to Q patch [THANKS MICROSOFT!]
Not really!
Almost all the hotfixes are packed with IExpress as self extracting self
installing (.CAB) archives. So calling *.EXE /? will only list the switches
of the IExpress wrapper, not the REAL installer inside the archive (which is
executed by the wrapper with a predefined command line). Direct execution
of the hotfixes will first unpack them into %TEMP% and then start the
unpacked installer.
And HERE comes the difference: the W2K hotfixes use UPDATE.EXE, the NT4
hotfixes HOTFIX.EXE, XP hotfixes yet another one, while IE/OE, MDAC, DirectX,
Office etc. come with ever changing installers.
Conclusion: use -X (or -T -C) to unpack the hotfixes manually, then examine
the created *.EXE and/or *.INF and find their switches.
> You could try running q329414_mdacall_x86.exe /? to see what the
> available switches are. If the advertised switches there don't work, I
> would complain loud and hard to everyone at Microsoft who will listen, since
> this stuff has been going on for at least a year.
See above: this only shows the switches of the (common) wrapper!
> You could also try reading the documentation for that patch at
> www.microsoft.com/support or on the patch download page. The actual
> switches used for a given patch is eventually added to at least one of these
> locations, though not always.
>
> I still haven't heard anyone from Microsoft explain why this is happening.
> Frankly I have given up trying to keep track of which patch requires which
> switch.
It's just different developer crews who don't know how their systems work!
Stefan
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