Software Deployment

ORIGINAL: sglimke
The registry key values I am assigning aren't GUIDs and aren't enclosed by any sort of brackets like some others (Microsoft stuff). The keys are named with alphanumeric characters that I've chosen to help me easily distinguish them from others. I can understand your motivation for not using GUIDs but it doesn't seem to work so, if it were me, I'd generate a couple of GUIDs and use them in a test. Here's a QAD script to generate a GUID and copy it to the clipboard.

Set TypeLib = CreateObject("Scriptlet.TypeLib")
strGUID = TypeLib.Guid

Set objIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
With objIE
.Navigate("about:blank")
.document.parentwindow.clipboardData.SetData "text", strGUID
.Quit
End With

Set TypeLib = Nothing
Set objIE = Nothing


Thanks for the suggestion and the script to create GUIDs. That seemed to be the issue. Do you know if there's some documentation on what all the Active Setup values mean? Specifically, DontAsk and IsInstalled are confusing. Default, ComponentId, Locale, StubPath and Version are fairly straightforward. I've not been able to find a comprehensive description of the others (and if there are other values I'm not aware of).

The script you provided works very well. I'm wondering if there's a way to suppress the "Allow Access" or "Don't Allow" buttons that appear asking about copying to the clipboard. It would be beneficial to be able to use this script within others to auto-generate a GUID for use elsewhere.

Thanks again!!

The answers to both questions revolve around IE. I was punting around the other day looking for a means to log Active Setup activity and came across a bunch of stuff. It would seem AS arose out of the IE v4 project. Enter:

"Active Setup" +log

into Google and have a wander around the MS page hits.

As for the warnings, they're to do with IE "security". Enter:

"internet explorer" +clipboard +"allow access"

into Google and you get a bunch of hits, except teh one that matters, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250473(VS.85).aspx

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