How do I automate application upgrade that will prompt the user to reboot or snooze?
I have two version of the same application out in my environment and I want to automate an upgrade and I want to do this with all other applications when the time comes for an upgrade
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Posted by:
Nico_K
6 years ago
Posted by:
vjaneczko
6 years ago
Posted by:
nagendrasingh
6 years ago
If they are desktops in office then you can use a combination of after hour maintenance windows and wake up packets to install it after hours.
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Assumes the OP has SCCM which isn't mentioned. - anonymous_9363 6 years ago
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Maintenance Windows and Wake up Packets are not specific to SCCM. Landesk, Altiris and others use them as well. Maintenance Windows is a concept implemented by others before SCCM 2007. WOL is 20 year old now. WOL can be triggered even by a VBscript. - nagendrasingh 6 years ago
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anonymous_9363
6 years ago
@OP,
There is no universal panacea. Every app is different in the way upgrades are handled.
As has been intimated, if the installer is MSI-based (remember, many EXEs extract and ultimately execute an MSI), then upgrades are generally handled well. I highlight "generally" because many vendors - some of them big names - still get this wrong so you should text extensively (but you do that anyway, right?)