using SCCM 2012 beta 2 in a LAB - Part 4. Application Installation

[johan.tingstedt]

Thanks Peter! Much appreciated!

[anyweb]

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also, when creating from exefiles, the "require administrator approval..." is grayed out. Why is that?

because deploying apps using Applications (msi..) is the way to go (the way of the future) and the Microsoft recommended way, therefore if you want the goodies (the benefits) stop using the old method (packages/exe)

[johan.tingstedt]

  On 8/23/2011 at 6:03 AM, anyweb said:

because deploying apps using Applications (msi..) is the way to go (the way of the future) and the Microsoft recommended way, therefore if you want the goodies (the benefits) stop using the old method (packages/exe)

 

Understand that! everything would so easy with just msi files.

I followed the guide for Office 2010 (but I took Visio instead) and it worked perfectly.

But I was also trying out the same for Lync 2010, but it didnt go well..

Could someone give me some guideance ?

[Peter van der Woude]

Take a look at this article to install it as a MSI: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ocsinterop/thread/6b638a43-e3a5-4e08-bdfd-16f84b51e2b1/

[johan.tingstedt]

  On 8/23/2011 at 7:36 AM, Peter van der Woude said:

Take a look at this article to install it as a MSI: http://social.techne...d-16f84b51e2b1/

 

nope, that's not it.

That requires to mess around with reg keys (UseMSIForLyncInstallation)

[Peter van der Woude]

It links to this article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg425733.aspx which states "You can extract the .msi file by running the client installation executable on a supported Windows client, which creates the Lync.msi file in %Program Files%\OCSetup\Lync.msi or %Program Files(x86)%\OCSetup\Lync.msi. For details and additional required steps, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 2477965, “The installation of Lync 2010 by using Windows Installer (MSI) fails,” at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=208249."

[johan.tingstedt]

  On 8/23/2011 at 9:32 AM, Peter van der Woude said:

It links to this article http://technet.micro...y/gg425733.aspx which states "You can extract the .msi file by running the client installation executable on a supported Windows client, which creates the Lync.msi file in %Program Files%\OCSetup\Lync.msi or %Program Files(x86)%\OCSetup\Lync.msi. For details and additional required steps, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 2477965, “The installation of Lync 2010 by using Windows Installer (MSI) fails,” at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=208249."

 

Exactly, and the KB says that a policy must be implemented by GPO.

I.E reg keys.

 

That's not the way I wanna do this.

Can't start fiddling around with gpo's just to deploy a single application.

[Peter van der Woude]

It can be done by script also... It's just a regedit action..

[johan.tingstedt]

  On 8/23/2011 at 4:22 PM, Peter van der Woude said:

It can be done by script also... It's just a regedit action..

 

Yeah but if I do this once, then I would guess that I would need to do it again with another application. And then the the wheel starts spinning.

Don't think Microsoft intended to deploy their own exe's in this way.

[johan.tingstedt]

Solved it.

Ended up doing a transform in Wise instead.