Java 8 Install

[spgsitsupport]

This one works fine for me

[clarkey2r]

I hate Java. It has caused me the biggest headaches when mass deploying. Their installer is utterly S***.

 

When deploying it through SCCM, it gets even worse and as you have said, it throws random errors and is literally random.

 

However, below are the scripts I use which work for me deploying to 10k machines. A lot of blood and tears went into these (even if it is basic) and it's the only way I could get them to work. These use a config file aswell (read their website) and puts the exception.sites file in place. It also ensures updates are disabled and start menu cleaned. These are for x86 version so mirror for x64 also changing relevant parts.

 

This script should only be run when no versions of Java are installed:

@ECHO OFF
REM Red Wedding
taskkill /F /IM javaw.exe
taskkill /F /IM jqs.exe
taskkill /F /IM jusched.exe
del "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Java" /S /F /Q
REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft" /f

REM Copy Config File Locally and Rename
XCOPY "%~dp0Config.cfg" "%systemdrive%\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\java.settings.cfg*" /R /H /Y

REM Install Java
msiexec /i "%~dp0jre1.8.0_60.msi" INSTALLCFG="%~dp0Config.cfg" REPAIRMODE=0 AUTO_UPDATE=0 EULA=0 INSTALL_SILENT=1 NOSTARTMENU=1 SPONSORS=0 /q /L C:\apps\java86.txt

REM Create Dir Structure
MD "%systemroot%\Sun\Java\Deployment\"

REM Copy Config Files
XCOPY "%~dp0deployment.config" "%systemroot%\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.config*" /R /H /Y
XCOPY "%~dp0deployment.properties" "%systemroot%\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties*" /R /H /Y

REM Copy Site Exceptions
xCOPY "\\SERVERSHARE\Java\exceptionsites\exception.sites" "%systemroot%\Sun\Java\Deployment\exception.sites*" /R /H /Y

REM Disable Updates Completely
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy" /f /v EnableJavaUpdate /t REG_DWORD /d 0
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.8.0_60\MSI" /f /v AUTOUPDATECHECK /t REG_SZ /d 0
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.8.0_60\MSI" /f /v JAVAUPDATE /t REG_SZ /d 0
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.8.0_60\MSI" /f /v JU /t REG_SZ /d 0

REM Cleanup
RD "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Java\" /S /Q
del "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Java" /S /F /Q

I also found, that should there even be a trace of Java on the machine, then installing via SCCM will fail. So I made the below scripts to kill Java.

 

Java 6 and below:

wmic product where "name like 'Java(TM)%%'" call uninstall /nointeractive

RD "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6" /S /Q
RD "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6" /S /Q
REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment" /f
REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment" /f

Exit /B 0

Java 7:

wmic product where "name like 'Java 7%%'" call uninstall /nointeractive

RD "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7" /S /Q
RD "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7" /S /Q
REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment" /f
REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment" /f

Exit /B 0

Java Completely

wmic product where "name like 'Java%%'" call uninstall /nointeractive

RD "C:\Program Files\Java" /S /Q
RD "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java" /S /Q
RD "C:\ProgramData\Java" /S /Q
REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft" /f
REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft" /f
RD "%systemroot%\Sun\Java\Deployment\" /S /Q
RD "%systemdrive%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Java\" /S /Q
RD "%systemdrive%\ProgramData\Oracle\" /S /Q

Exit /B 0

Hope they help.

 

Rich Mawdsley

I've created a basic script based on yours for Java 8 Update 73 (see below), the deployment fails, in the log file I see the bellow, any idea whats going on? I'm tearing my hair out with this shitty java install.

 

Error

 

MSI (s) (68:3C) [12:44:18:265]: Product: Java 8 Update 73 -- The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2705. The arguments are: Directory, ,

 

Script

 

@ECHO OFF

REM Kill Java

taskkill /F /IM javaw.exe

taskkill /F /IM jqs.exe

taskkill /F /IM jusched.exe

 

 

REM Remove Java

 

wmic product where "name like 'Java%%'" call uninstall /nointeractive

 

RD "C:\Program Files\Java" /S /Q

RD "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java" /S /Q

RD "C:\ProgramData\Java" /S /Q

REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft" /f

REG DELETE "HKLM\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft" /f

RD "%systemroot%\Sun\Java\Deployment\" /S /Q

RD "%systemdrive%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Java\" /S /Q

RD "%systemdrive%\ProgramData\Oracle\" /S /Q

 

REM Copy Config File and Rename

XCOPY "%~dp0Config.cfg" "%systemdrive%\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\java.settings.cfg*" /R /H /Y

 

 

REM Install Java

msiexec /i "%~dp0jre1.8.0_73.msi" INSTALLCFG="%~dp0Config.cfg" REPAIRMODE=0 AUTO_UPDATE=0 EULA=0 INSTALL_SILENT=1 NOSTARTMENU=0 SPONSORS=0 /q /L C:\win7Software\Java_Install.txt

 

Any help would be much appreciated.