Software Deployment

Firstly, to clarify, this is nothing to do with Wise per se, but the Windows Installer engine.

Second, when I refer to "server" (in quotes), I don't mean a machine running a server OS, simply a machine with a share on it.

Lastly, take a look here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371372(VS.85).aspx

If you have sufficient privileges to install to the drive, I imagine that you would have similar privileges to install the package "locally" to the "server" in question, so why not simply RDP to it and run the MSI? Or use PSExec?

install to the drive, I imagine that you would have similar ORIGINAL: VBScab

If you have sufficient privileges to install to the drive, I imagine that you would have similar privileges to install the package "locally" to the "server" in question, so why not simply RDP to it and run the MSI? Or use PSExec?



oYes i have sufficent privilges to install to the drive, but somehow it only gets installed locally?
If i look under installation expert-file it says under my computer only Apps. But it should be the networkdrive:\Apps

so why not simply RDP to it and run the MSI? Or use PSExec? - please explain a bit more as i dont understand what you are talking about

RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol (as Googling for 'RDP' would have shown you...)
This allows you to connect and log in to the remote machine, as if it were in front of you. I can't believe a packager wouldn't know about RDP!

PSExec - a free d/l from SysInternals (as Googling for 'PSExec' would have shown you...)
This allows you to run commands on remote machines from a command line.
Anyone doing this job ought to have already downloaded (and be intimately familiar with) practically EVERY SysInternals tool - they're just too useful to NOT have them...

Well my point is why dosent wise install the package on the network-drive but only on local drive. (And Yes i have mapped the network drive, and yes i have the permissions).

I dont want to deploy the package on the network server, only on the client. The client installation should update the server though. ot is this impossible to accomplish

thx m8, Just the answer i was looking for

Bear in mind setting ROOTDRIVE wont redirect "shell" folders - ie if you are installing under [ProgramFilesFolder] for instance. As you are installing to NetDrive:\Apps you should be fine.

Just figured it out m8. But thx anyway

I know this might come across as "Grumpy Old Man" but please try and remember that AD has an international user base so, if we can avoid text-speak, it would help enormously those for whom English is not their first language.