Software Deployment

If you want to make the install completly silent then you will need to repackage the installation. You can do a setup capture with Wise on a clean machine to get only the changes that the installation makes. Then set Wise to hide all of the dialog boxes. Run the resulting exe with a /S for silent and you should be good.

Is this any different from the SMS installer where with it I'd have to browse to the location of the executable? I'm looking at the Wise console and it look totally different from the SMS installer.

Thanks

send me ur email address and i'll send a wise package studio manual over.

cheers

Giz

Try this Link. Really helpful.

http://www.dawnstar.com.au/wpshelp/.

Giz

Thanks but this link doesn't appear to be working. I tried, again, following the Wise tutorial located in Help and ended up confused, again. I honestly can't seem to get my head around this and wonder if someone can recommend a good book on this app?

THanks

try this also
http://www.altiris.com/docs/support/wise/5.5/Getting_Started_Guide.pdf#search='wise%20package%20studio%20training%20manual'.

Giz

I finally managed to get the applications repackaged and have tested the executable to see if it performs the upgrade as it should and it does. The problem I have now is that the icon on the desktop doesn't get upgraded and still points to the old URL. What hapens is that the package is deployed, upgrades the application on the computer and reboots the system. When the user logs on and double-click the icon it should take them to the new URL, which installs an ActiveX component and finishes the upgrade. This isn't happening because the icon still points to the old URL. What I need to figure out is the best way to change the location this icon points to. The icon currently points to:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://as400.mydomain.com/jha/slaker14/slake.html?%COMPUTERNAME%

and needs to point to:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://10.1.11.1/jha/StartSlake.html?%COMPUTERNAME%

The ideal solution would be to incorporate this into this package but I could also see making it a login script deployed via group policy. Would anyone have any suggestions on the most effective way to do this? ANY responses are appreciated.