Supplied MSI's created with Install Shield

[CChong]

Hi All,

I'm a Windows 2000 systems administrator at a company that uses Group Policy to deploy it's software. We therefore either Publish (most common) or assign applications to OU's within the AD.

My problem is that increasingly software houses are creating MSI's using Install Shield that are difficult to Publish within AD as they use the setup.exe (ie Install Shield script engine) to set parameters and launch the MSI. My must recent example is Adobe Acrobat 6.0.

Trying to publish the MSI directly always fails ... does anyone know a way to work around this using an .MST or something similar?

Regards
Paul

[praveenl]

The Repackager in Adminstudio 5.0 can build the compressed MSI which is what you may want. Their's an option in the Repackager IDE just to turn on this option. Look for 'Build a compressed, single-file package that contains all of the files'. Also uncheck the option 'Create a Setup.exe to launch the package'.

[CChong]

You can add Transforms when you publish via AD, maybe this is an option for you ?
What is the problem with publishing the MSI file directly ?

Jon

[Harley0226]

This should work for you: Let me know if it doesn't.
1) Use Dev 8 to apply Adobe's transform file to package MSI.
2) Change UIMODE property to NO
3) Add ISX_SERIALNUMBER=1111-1111-1111-1111-1111-1111 (your serial key here)
4) Turn off CA_QV custom action so it doesn't execute.