Re: *Completely* silent IE Patch distributions

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: 08/08/02 

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 21:59:30 -0700

On 7 Aug 2002 09:48:39 -0700, Chuck.Stevens@pfcenter.com (Chuck
Stevens) wrote:

>This question has been posed several times, but I have never seen an
>actual answer. So I will as again. ;)
>
>I wish to use SMS to distribute the latest IE cumulative patch,
>q321232.exe.
>
>The correct command line for a silent installation with no reboot is:
>
>q321232.exe /q:a /r:n
>
>HOWEVER, running the patch this way still displayes a file-copy
>progress box, with a big Cancel button on it. I want no messages or
>dialogs displayed to the user whatsoever. How do I go about this?

If you're pushing this with SMS, it will get run under a different
user context than the currently logged in user. This means that the
user will not actually see the copy dialog box.

I pushed Q32123 out using the same syntax, using psexec, and it was
completely silent.

-Chris