Deployment Solution

HI,

I have a problem with the distribution of Windows XP Service Pack 3, the problem is to deploy it silently, without user interface. The Service Pack 3 shows an extension. exe, but if I want to install it through the mouths with the Altiris command line, I had to do the repackage of SP3 so I've got a file with a. msi.
In any way, distribute, me as an error (Operation Failed), as if the distribution instead. exe and the user interaction with the installation is successful.

Can you help me, I have very little little time to solve this problem.

Thank you and good job 

Hi ICT...,

It would be helpful if you provided how you were pushing it (i.e. provide the command line that you are utilizing and the actual return error code you are receiving).

Is there a reason you had to repackage the EXE?  The EXE natively supports command line switches to do a silent install such as /quiet /norestart or /Z /U

The below link references it.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itproxpsp/thread/d1ac8e87-9bcf-45d8-8c70-09fc8ecf1543

The /norestart option would prevent the update from rebooting the machine.  You will, however, have to either rely on the end user to restart the computer themselves, or issue a restart for later (maybe include a count down so that a user can save their work).

I didn't include the /norestart because generally we schedule our jobs at 7pm to avoid disturbing employees during their work.

Hello,

I have a solution that actually works fine.

Firts i have unzipped this file for a french XP SP3 :

WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-FRA.exe

In a batch i wrote this line (according that %source% is the root folder where the file has been unzipped) :

start %source%\WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-FRA\i386\update\update.exe /quiet

At last i execute a job in Altiris DS 6.9 :

And it installs silently without any UI.

It does reboot after installation so globally we schedule this job when nobody is logged on the PC.

Hope it could help you!

Best regards.

@Yannick:  Understood.  I was just throwing the /norestart option out there for the people that don't necessarily have the option of running this after hours (i.e. for people that take their laptops home, or if you have people that are working late).  Every environment is different.

@bhawver : I know that every environment is different; i was just explaining why i didn't include it in my batch ;-)

That's a fact, the /norestart is helpful in many cases.