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Hi Folks, We have a number customers who we provide PC's and support to; however, we only have a very few engineers to carry out installation work.  As such we intend to produce an installe...
We have about 1800 Computers with all different versions of Office installed using wrong CD-Keys. We want to standardize all computers with only Office 2003 Standard. This will be a controlled...
All, I am using a VBS script to uninstall a product.  Everything is silent but a Windows error message appears after the uninstall.  I want to surpress any errors that come up.  The error m...
I needed to customize IE7 in our company so I downloaded IEAK7 and using the wizard I created an msi file; and actually I am a little confused as the program created 2 folders (BrndOnly and IN...
Hi,     I am working on repackaging an install for our company using Wise Professional 9. I have an file called BlackBerrySetup.msi that I need to install silently with custom settings. I ...
What is the best way to Automate intallation of Office 2007? - Upgrading from Office 2003 We have Windows Server 2003 DC's. I am not familiar with creating .msi packages. Thanks in adva...
I'm looking to deploy a .vbs script that I've created to uninstall then reinstall/enable file and printer sharing on both Win2k and XP machines. I would like to do this by way of an .msi throu...
I have built a small windows applicaiton that can be used to start and stop my windows service.   It adds a program icon to the task bar and pops up message icons when the service stops or sta...
Hi Experts, I have an MSI package that installs an Office COM add-in for MS Word 2003.  The add-in was created using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 SE. The MSI package sho...
How can I create a MSI setup to install and also can upgrade if an older version is installed on the target machine?  I currently have a MSI setup project that will install on pc that doesn't ...
Hi All, See title... i have teh msi extracted and ready but to install an msi you just create the software package in group policy editor.  You have no way of adding switches ? I have hear...
One of our users keeps getting a pop up for installing Access 2000 Runtime on random email.  It does not happen on all emails, just 3-5 emails a day.  I noticed that he had Access 2000 R3 Runt...
As I mentioned earlier, I'm creating some msi packages to push out to my company. When I try installing or uninstalling the msi, I get the message "Another application has exclusive access ...
I've got to write a patch for an application (ASP.Net application) that only needs a simple tweak to one of the aspx files.  This is an absolute doddle for me to do, but they've asked me to cr...
Hi Guys, Im looking to roll out a McAfee SuperDAT file via Group Policy to around 40 PC's on my network as they will not pick it up when I deploy via Epolicy Orchestrator. As you will no d...
Hi Experts, I have a MDAC.exe (Microsoft Data Access Components) and another DLLs plus OCX files to register on clients in AD environment. So, I need to create a one MSI package for all,...
Is there an MSI available so we can update the Adobe Updater using Configuration Manager? Our users are getting this error message and we want to centrally install the update: http://www.e...
I un-installed it completely from my desktop and removed the msi file associated with it and re-installed it and the results were the same.  This started happening all of a sudden with a worki...
I created a MSI file and a couple of EXE's. Need to sign them and upload them to the production server so that users can download them and run on their local machines. I have the certificat...
I've put together some MSI packages to push out software to PCs in my company. I've found an odd problem when you install from an MSI package on a network share. If the original MSI is del...
Hi , I have run a small office and deploy some programs by Group policy , the install package is .msi format. the terrible things is : some times , user will get an repair window for th...
Hi Folks, I have a need to install multiple packages, each wrapped in .MSI files.  I could create a batch file that executes each from CD but would prefer to use a single .MSI file to insta...
Hi, I'm having trouble to open MSI files. Each time I try to run MSI files, installation begins but then nothing happens. When I had a look on event viewer - I found error: "fatal error I...
Hi, I am trying to create an msi package with custom action install and uninstall.  Everything works fine with the install.  With the uninstall, I get an error that tells me "access denied"...