How do I install a .EXE rather than a .MSI?

[Kelvin Beaton]

I'm just starting to get my feet wet with Group Policy and Software
installation.

I was going to use .EXE to test with, but when I go into Software
installation to add a new package it only has .MSI as a file extension.
What am I missing here?
How do I install an .EXE?

Thanks

Kelvin

 

[Smelly]

GP only does MSI's. If you want to do an exe you would have to call it from
a batch file or something in the login script and use a silent install.

 

[si]

to use an exe in gp as far as s/w distribution goes you
need to create what is called a .zap file you do not as
suggested have to use a batch file - the .zap file is a
simple text file - check the kb for info

 

[Alex]

What I've found is if you run the setup EXE on your machine, it'll
create temp files in c:\documents and settings\*username*\local
settings\temp - sometimes you will find the msi and related files in
there. I've used this method recently for .NET framework and MSXML
and it works great.

 

[Kelvin Beaton]

Thanks for the reply

XPSP2.exe is the file I was playing around with. I figured out that I can
UnZip it and file I need is there.
xpsp2\update\update.msi

Thanks