Re: *Completely* silent IE Patch distributions

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: 08/09/02 

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:19:44 -0700

On 8 Aug 2002 12:17:00 -0700, Chuck.Stevens@pfcenter.com (Chuck
Stevens) wrote:

>chris@nospam.com wrote in message news:<diu3lu44ltg388m9r85dhj0rlt91u41koh@4ax.com>...
>> 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
>
>
>Unfortunately, this isn't completely true. Using SMS to push q321232
>results in that file copy progress bar being displayed, regardless of
>what context it runs in. I've tested that myself several times.
>
>Now, using PSEXEC is a different story. I'll look into that.

I guess maybe because the SMS client is running in the system context?