SMS installer can repackage any installer and convert into a .msi file -
beware you will need to do a lot of cleanup after the capture, because it
captures all the registry access, and there are many registry accesses per
second on an idle system!
When you download the SMS Installer, it will only unpack on a system that is
an SMS server - here's a reg hack that let it unpack on any type of system:
Extracting the SMS Installer Download on a Workstation
By: Peter Howard
Posted On: 6/6/2001
Extracting the SMS Installer-ISU integrated download (or, just the standard
SMS Installer) requires that a SMS site server be present on the network
connection. When the extraction intiates is asks for a valid server name and
will check to see if its available.
Say, you downloaded SMS Installer from home on a dial-up connection, what do
you do then? Wait until you are in the office?
Do this:
On your workstation, change the data value in the following key:
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Setup
Data: Type
Data Value: dword:00000001
Usually this is set to 00000004 on a workstation signifying just the admin
console. 00000001 Is for Primaries, type 00000002 is for Secondaries.
Here's an SMS Installer script to modify the registry data value for you:
2333InstRegkey.ipf
Download in Compiled format:
3703InstRegkey.zip
