Newbie needs basic help creating the msi

[mosquat]

Hi all,

I'm new to this and feel I dont really understand what I am meant to be doing!

Basically a software vendor has sent us a new version of some software and I want to deploy this to our clients via SMS - in the past we had to visit each machine...obviously a nice msi file is easy to deploy via SMS or GP.

They have sent me an exe which contains all of the files and a setup.exe.

I have played around with various things but all I every seem to do is install the executable and not the program!

Obviously this is a school boy error that I expect should be easy for someone with a bit more experience to help me with!

Thanks for any help

Mos

[Mike]

Hi Mos,

Simply including the EXE in the package will result in the files being copied on the target machines, but they will not be executed.

To have them install, the MSI should launch them too. For this you should use an installed/attached custom action that will launch those files with the necessary command line arguments. For more information on this please visit:

http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-g ... hed-action

This custom action should be scheduled on one of the last standard actions, for example on InstallFinalize.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Mihai

[mosquat]

Thanks - will try out and let you know how i get on