Software Deployment

The Lync installer contains an MSI. You're better off taking this and running it directly. It's how we did it here and it works fine. The MSI has a property USEMSIFORLYNCINSTALLATION which was set to 1.

Rgds,

PJ

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator]
"FirstRunLaunchMode"=dword:00000001

To pass a public property to an msi just add it in the install command with the value you want.
msiexec /i <filename.msi> USEMSIFORLYNCINSTALLATION="#1"

And you might want to fix the Advertised Repair loop issue during launch, when using the MSI as stand-alone installer (check notes section).

Forgive me for asking, but as someone pretty new to packaging (I was thrown into it, it's not my calling in life..lol) I am wondering about the reference to the setting USEMSIFORLYNCINSTALLATION. I looked at the MSI through Orca and found the setting, but how would you change this setting without a Transform? Would you not be changing the MSI itself? I have seen the error message received when trying to launch the MSI directly. I am also aware of the second executable OCSetupLauncher.exe which can be run with the switch /install /silent and it loads the prereqs and installs Lync.

But I am really wondering about changing the setting for the MSI.

Thank you for your patience.

KK

Awesome! Thank you very much! Of course it would make sense that it is just that simple. I should have known the rule of KISS would apply! :)

This will obviously be valuable information for future reference.

Thanks again!