How to deploy WinZip in GPO

[Ihab Abedrabbo]

Hi,
WInZip does not come with an MSI file, it only comes as a
self-extracting file that exrtacts ifself to a temp folder
then lunches the setup.exe file.

How can I deploy an application (in this case WinZip)
through my GPO for an application that does not have an
MSI file?

How can I create this "MAGICAL" MST or ZAP file? and how
can I use it if my GPO gives me only MSI files to
assign/public?

Thanks

 

[Andrew Mitchell]

Hi,
WInZip does not come with an MSI file, it only comes as a
self-extracting file that exrtacts ifself to a temp folder
then lunches the setup.exe file.

How can I deploy an application (in this case WinZip)
through my GPO for an application that does not have an
MSI file?

How can I create this "MAGICAL" MST or ZAP file? and how
can I use it if my GPO gives me only MSI files to
assign/public?

You don't really need a GPO to deploy Winzip.
Just install it to a network share then create a login script as follows:

if exist "c:\program files\winzip\*" goto Done
<server>\<share>\WinZip\WinZip.exe /autoinstall
one

The only other thing you may want to do as a startup script within a GPO is
to create a shortcut in the All Users folder (copy it from a shared location)
as, by default, Winzip only creates it for the current user.

Andy.