Re: msi wrapper

From: TerryM (nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:50:51 -0700

Not sure I understand the issue?

You are saying you can't deploy MSI's using SMS in your environment?

As for a "SMS Wrapper" basically using SMS Installer there is a scripting
interface. You can use commands like... put this file <specify> on the
machine here <specify> then execute the file <specify> with these command
lines <specify>... After that is written you can compile as a exe or msi..
In your case exe ;) and then deploy using SMS.

Have you tried to do these tasks with SMS Installer? If you give it a try
and have problems then post and let me know.

I would still suggest that maybe you need to just figure out the command
lines to use with SMS to deploy msi's. Check out myitforum.com and do a
search, you'll find some info there.

Terry

"CB" <question@tech.net> wrote in message
news:ghj7j0d2pduco3uqmqm9ulht9u8vm2al6q@4ax.com...
> Hello,
> Many thanks for any assistance.
>
> Can someone explain to me or point me to some decent documentation on
> how to use sms installer to create a 'wrapper' for my .msi files? All
> I want to do is launch my installer packages.
>
> I'm using SMS 2.0/SP5 and I've been able to create everything (i.e.
> collections, queries, packages, advertisements, etc.) and it works
> great...however I also create and use .msi packages (Wininstall 2003
> LE) and these fail when advertised.
>
> I understand why they fail, and know about using the package ID UNC
> path, but I'd really like to avoid that if at all possible. I can
> deploy these packages via GPO/Intellimirror, but I lose all of the
> granularity I get with SMS. Everything I find tells me to write an sms
> wrapper. Is it that complicated...mind you, it's OK if it is...even if
> someone has a decent sample I'll figure it out.
>
> Thanks again,
> Craig B.
>
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