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  1. Re:STUPID ACROREAD ICON by denis-The-menace · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Adobe May Change To Monthly Patch Cycle

    look at what others do to avoid that pitfall.
    http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=1328

  2. no MSI installer yet by Rob+Bos · · Score: 2, Informative · on Shockwave Vulnerabilities Affect More Than 450 Million Systems

    As of posting, there's no MSI installer for the new version yet, and the .exe installer doesn't seem to support silent installs.

    http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=1438

  3. Re:v3.5 and still no MSI package for Windows by handsomepete · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3.5 Hits Release Candidate Milestone

    While this may not help you, there are certainly options for deploying silently without the MSI if you're so inclined.

    If you really can't deploy anything but MSIs, then how do you handle the other thousands of installers that aren't MSI packaged? Firefox seems like a nit in comparison to the legions of corporate-important applications that use any other install method but MSI. Or legacy apps that were packaged before the popularity of MSI. Or in house desktop applications. Or any number of other obnoxious speed bumps you deal with when managing a large number of desktops + app deployment in a corporate environment.

  4. Re:Good catch by Wiz · · Score: 2, Informative · on McAfee Anti-Virus Causes Widespread File Damage

    You can use this piece of Adobe software:

    http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp? ftpID=2709

    To create custom MSTs for Acrobat, which you can use to disable all of the annoying crap. Well, apart from the Yahoo search! I suggest also http://www.appdeploy.com/ can be useful for finding ways to disable stuff in installers.

  5. You can also slipstream hotfixes and apps by hillct · · Score: 3, Informative · on Installing Windows with Recent Updates?

    While slipstreaming service packs is a common practice, you can also slipstream hotfixes. Hack when I was in IT support we used this great script to automate the process. Some of the other links I still had bookmarked may be of value to people who not only want to slipstream service packs/hotfixes but also build an unattended installation CD. In our case we installed all the apps common to our PC images (except for office) from one CD. We threw the CD in, booted from it and came back 2 1/2 hours later to find a fully installed desktop with all our standard apps. This method is superior to using Ghost or other imaging software when you have a heterogenius enviroment where PC hardware varies drastically from depertment to department or desktop to desktop.

    http://www.nu2.nu/bootablecd/
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/ie/ie ak/default.mspx
    http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/
    http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/

    This last link related to a commercial software distribution enviroment but but it includes an archive of the known switches accepted by various installers to make them silent. The technique we used was to use the unattended.txt file to add a RunOnce registry entry, to regedit (to marge a secondary gegistry file containing other RunOnce entries) to be executed on the second reboot to silently install our list of apps, where the installer commands used included the switches detailed on the appDeploy website (and many other palces across the web).

    There are a relatively small number of installers out there that take a relitively well known set of switches to make the installation silent (accepting all the defaults). These methods saves us thousands of man-hours in PC deployment in the two years they was in use.

    --CTH