Software Deployment

Get the stand-alone EXE and use that, by selecting 'Save this program to disk' and running that saved copy rather than selecting 'Run this program from current location' when downloading.

Sorry, I guess I was not entirely clear on what I was doing. So here is a step by step.

I went to the Microsoft website and found the components I wanted to include in the image. Including the "Windows Script 5.7 for Windows Server 2003", which can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f00cb8c0-32e9-411d-a896-f2cd5ef21eb4&displaylang=en

I clicked the Download button
I clicked the Save button
I chose a common location for these components
I clicked Save
When each download completed, I clicked Close

At this point I have all of the components so I added a script to install the components named 'Server2k3Tools.vbs'. Below is an excerpt from that script:

<- Begin Code ->
' Installing Group Policy Management Console
SendToLog "Installing Group Policy Management Console"
objShell.Run strWinDir & "\System32\MsiExec.exe /i " & Chr(34) & strScriptPath & "\gpmc.msi /qnr /norestart" & Chr(34) & " /qn /norestart", 0, True
' Installing Windows Script 5.7
SendToLog "Installing Windows Script 5.7"
objShell.Run Chr(34) & strScriptPath & "\ScriptEn.exe" & Chr(34) & " /Quiet /NoRestart", 0, True
<- End Code ->

Here is a capture of the folder contents:



Then I add the folder to Microsoft Deployment as an Application with the following Execution Command:

CScript.exe Server2k3Tools.vbs

Then I add the new application to a role, which is assigned to a Virtual computer
Next I boot up the virtual computer to the Microsoft Deployment LTI Windows PE Iso image
It kicks off the Microsoft Deployment process which partitions and formats the virtual drive, and starts the unattended install of Windows Server 2003 SP2 R2
When Windows is finished installing, it goes through the process of configuring some things. running windows update to install all of the security paches etc
Next it installs all of the applications I have added to that role
This is the important part. It starts the application which has that script and list of MS components to install. The Windows Script 5.7 is the last one in the list.
It installs each component perfectly. No prompt, no problems.
Then it gets to the Windows Script and it stops and pops up this dialog box:

See it here -> http://www.benfieldfamily.org/dialog.png

It says

<- Begin Dialog ->
Open File - Security Warning
Do you want to run this file?
Name: ScriptEn.exe
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
Type: Application
From: \\ServerName\Distribution$\Applications\Win...
[Run] [Cancel]

While files from the Internet can be useful, this file type can
potentially harm your computer. Only run software from publishers
you trust. What's the risk?
<- End Dialog ->

And it will not continue until someone interacts with it? I just don't know what to do to get it to trust this executable in the automated build process?

Again, if anyone has any suggestions. I would greatly appreciate it.

Regards,
Richard

Doh... I figured it out... feel kinda stupid now... it actually had nothing to do with downloading the application. That only seemed to impact it on the first computer I downloaded it with. From then on the problem was that I was running it from a network share. It doesn't seem to matter if you run it from the UNC path or map a drive. But if you copy it locally and run it, No Dialog!!!

So anyway, if you run into this problem... now you know what to do...