We recently deployed IE7 to the Client PCs using Software Delivery Solution and I wanted to share few things regarding IE7 Deployment.
We used standard installation package from Microsoft, but you can use Internet Explorer 7 Administration Kit to modify installation package.
We created target deployment collection by checking if the IE7 record is present in Add/Remove Programs.
In effect we have two collections:
Collection One: Computers with IE7 installed,
with filter
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Inv_AeX_OS_Add_Remove_Programs is populated by machine inventory, we run machine inventory twice a day.
Collection Two: Computers targeted for IE7 deployment
This collection includes All Windows XP PCs and excludes Collection One: Computers with IE7 installed
I know that target collection may be build with single SQL query, but I have found this way easier and more manageable.
Below are the installation notes:
Command line is: IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe /quiet /update-no /norestart switch /update-no will make installation faster, as IE7 will not try to download updates from Microsoft
We have found one slight issue with this: after IE7 is pre-staged, but PC has not been rebooted yet, favourites in IE6 stop working.
This is one of the reasons we used switch /update-no