Re: MS05-038 Silent Unattended Installation

Hi Greg

That worked well. Thanks very much for taking the time to answer.
As always your help is greatly appreciated.

"Greg Ramsey" wrote:

> This should do it:
>
> IE6.0sp1-KB896727-SMS-Deploy-KB903741-x86-ENU.exe /q: a /r:n
>
> Notice the icon s different looking than the other hotfixes that use /quiet
> /norestart? In my experience, whenver the icon looks like it does for the
> IE patch you mention, and it offers /q as a command line switch, use /q:a
> /r:n
>
> This is an "iexpress software update package:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197147/
>
> "all" command-line switches:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810232
>
>
> "NetAdmin_UK" <NetAdminUK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:05BC60DB-EF4E-4041-9C48-4E82ACA05508@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to deploy the MS05-038 (KB896727) patch for IE6.0 SP1 using
> > SMS
> > 2003 Software Updates Wizard.
> > When I select the patch SMS automatically goes to the web and downloads
> > the
> > .exe file to be used. The patch the file it downloads is
> > 'IE6.0sp1-KB896727-SMS-Deploy-KB903741-x86-ENU.exe'. After this I check
> > the
> > documentation for the patch to find the switches I need. The documentation
> > says '/quiet /norestart' switches are compatible. After adding the
> > switches
> > to the patch and testing the deployment I get a message saying the command
> > line switches are invalid.
> > To find the correct switches I then run the patch with the /? switch and
> > it
> > tells me that only the '/Q' switch is valid.
> > After rechecking the documentation at MS I find the file name MS is
> > refering
> > to is 'IE6.0sp1-KB896727-Windows-2000-XP-x86-ENU.exe' which is slightly
> > different to the one that SMS has downloaded.
> > Can someone please tell me why this is and also how to deploy quietly with
> > norestart.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
>
>
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