W2K Sp4 msi

[Bryan Rogers]

I want to deploy SP4 to our Win2000 Pro clients via GPO
however I want to supress the backup portion of the SP4
install. With the update.exe file there is a -n switch
that causes the install to not backup. How do I accomplish
this same behavior using the update.msi file?

Thanks.

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I want to deploy SP4 to our Win2000 Pro clients via GPO
however I want to supress the backup portion of the SP4
install. With the update.exe file there is a -n switch
that causes the install to not backup. How do I accomplish
this same behavior using the update.msi file?

Hi

You could try to edit the update.msi and add -n in all the "RunSetup" actions
in the CustomAction table (you could e.g. use Orca in the MSI SDK to edit the
file).

 

[Bryan Rogers]

Thanks for the feedback. We were able to do this with SP3
so naturally we tried it with Sp4 but the -n switch does
not appear to work. The native update.msi file runs great
from the GPO but if we edit the MSI with the -n switch we
see a prompt that the SP is being installed but it closes
after about 10 seconds and nothing is installed. Comparing
the SP3 and SP4 msi packages we do see some differences
between the native packages and I also notice that you can
no longer double-click the msi and run the install. You
get a message telling you that the package must
be "assigned".

I am truly perplexed!