Re: why does sms program always run as hidden even when set to normal?

James,

Have you selected the "Allow user to interact" option?

Thanks
Lars Norman Søndergaard

"JamesW" <JamesW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i en meddelelse
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> We are running sms 2003 (no service pack). All of my clients are advanced
> clients. I am pushing out several packages including Office 2003. The
> applications are installing fine but the problem is this. No matter what
> I
> do I can't get any of the programs to display a user interface. The
> program
> is set to run "normal" not "hidden" but it always appears to run hidden.
> For
> example even if I just call the setup.exe with no switches in the program
> there is no user interface. You can see the setup.exe process run in task
> manager. I have the same problem when I run MSI files. I have tried with
> the
> program set to "only when a user is logged on" and "whether or not a user
> is
> logged on". If I map a drive to the source and run setup.exe from the
> command line I get the normal user interface for the office setup. Even if
> I
> run setup manually from the SMS Cache it works right. I have been able to
> duplicate this problem with just about any .msi file. Has anyone else
> seen
> this problem? Is this normal behavior and if so is there a way to change
> the
> behavior?


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