Need to 'package' applications for deployment - Installshield AutoIT

Hi,

We have just bought, installed and configured DiagWin, which we will use to deploy applications to our user population. What we need now is to do the following:

Have an application that will allow us to install a package to a client with customised settings, i.e. license key, installation path, company name etc, but we need this to install silently.

The DiagWin guys, brought an application with them called AutoIT v3 and we used this to do a test package for an app called Dameware in the following manner:

Ran AutoIT and told it the path to the dameware setup.exe
Then went through the install until complete
Then AutoIT created a .exe file which will run the original setup.exe and perform all the tasks we performed, therefore installing Dameware as we wanted it.

We then tested this by deploying the AutoIT-created .exe to a client and it installed fine. The only problem is, the install appeared on the user's screen. They weren't prompted for anything, but still they could see the install process. This is not what we want. We don't want the user to visually be able to see the install.

Now.....we also bought Installshield 11 some time ago on a recommendation that it can do the job for us, and one of our guys has now had a brief look at this and cannot see how we can do it using that.


Anybody got any recommendations on what we are doing wrong, or have we got the wrong tools maybe?

Cheers

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