Deployment Solution

I'm running 8.0 HF2, and I'd like to do the following in a single shot:

• Install WinPE or boot to WinPE USB flash drive
• Erase Disk
• Partition Disk
• Scripted install of Windows 7 or 10
• Boot to Production
• Join the domain
• Wait 30 seconds (this eliminates errors)
• Install MSIE11 via a .bat (Windows 7 only)
• Change local admin password
• Uninstall WinPE

Once this baseline is in place on the PC, I currently have a bunch of jobs run one after another that run .bat files to install the other software we use, Office, Acrobat, Firefox, etc., etc. This is pretty error-prone process, with frequent returned errors for one reason or another.

I'd like to know if I could use DS 8.0's software function to do one-shot software installs: "Install these software packages on these computers right now, but don't do it as a matter of policy if you ever see them without it again."

This is primarily for deploying employee workstations. If an employee with local admin uninstalls Firefox, I'll assume they want it that way, and I don't want DS "fixing" this.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Yes, you can do this. Create each piece of Software as a Software Release with a detection check and put that in to a Managed Software Delivery Policy. Put a schedule on the Policy of "00:00 No Repeat" and it will run once but not again. it will still be available in the Symantec Management Agent (SMA) on the client if the user wants to use that to reinstall it. Try not to use batch files, the SMA will only report the result of the last command in the batch file. If you want to install the Software then perform configuration steps such as turning off automatic updating they should be packaged separately as a Software Update. You can then apply this Software Update to later versions of the software.

I have Deployment Solution only, not Software Management Solution. Does your proposal require Software Management Solution?

Thanks

Sorry, yes it does. Basically what you are asking for is what Software Management Solution does.

The only other option is to try and rewrite your batch files to eliminate each error as it occurs.