Software Deployment

I haven't look at this but I would be extremely surprised if this was not an MSI already being that its from MS.

check the running tasks during installation to see if msiexec.exe is running. I would expect you will find it is.

Hmm. Can I ask something else then? Groove just consists of setup.exe, so I wondered how I can deploy this via Group Policy, as GP only allows .msi files to run???

I figured by repackaging the setup.exe then I could capture it as an msi???

Thanks for your advice.

even though some applications appear to be exe files. Often the setup.exe file contains an msi internally. When you execute the exe the msi is extracted usually to %temp% and then executed.

In order to confirm if this app is an msi check the process list when executing the exe file.

if you see msiexec running it is actually an MSI wrapped with an EXE file.

The reason this is often done is called bootstrapping. Usually (not in all cases) the exe file contains a compatible version of the windows installer engine. As such when the exe runs it checks for presence of the engine. If not found it installs reboots then completes installation.

If it is found it simply extracts the msi and executes.

Hi jmcfadyen!

Thanks for your answers, this cleared a lot up for me!!!!!
It's much appreciated. [:D]