Automated Application Installation

[riverbr]

Can someone please tell me of an application I can use to automated application under Windows NT or Windows 98. Please if you know of any programs or utility, let me know the site so i can go visit or the location where can I get it.


Thanks,

Regards,
Riverbr

[Roy]

I'm not quite sure what you mean. If it is to make an application start automatically when you boot the machine, this should work in W98:

In Windows Explorer, open Windows >Start Menu >Programs >Startup. Shrink the window and drag the icon for the application from the desktop to the folder and creat a shortcut. If it's not on the desktop, locate it with Explorer and do the same.

[800XL]

Sounds like you are refering to automated installs of applications. If you are doing this on a large scale, you really should look at something like Microsoft's System Management Server. You can configure client machines to automatically install any particular app as soon as the machine boots and connects to the server. There are a couple other products that do similar things.

If you want to go the do it yourself route, start looking into batch installs and get real familiar with Policy Editor.

It would help to know more about the apps you want to automatically install and what kind of scale you are working on. For even 10-20 machines, installing by hand is likely easier in the short run than setting up automation.

[DSEG]

You really have to install NT4 server and learn how to do unattend.txt and then on to sysdiff usage which monitors an installation on a workstaion from the serve and creats a sort of batch file. Been working on it but it is a bit tricky to master. You really need to get help from Technet which is online technical help on microsofts web site or if your mcp or mcse you get it for FREEEE!!! on cd

[BBA]

My company with now 3000+ PC's, distrubutes software via the Wininstall program. It works as the users log on, the applet starts from the log on script and examines what software has been installed and automatically dumps data/folders and registry info to the client PC. It is based on running Wininstall on a machine, a tsnapshot is then taken of all software, then after installing and configuring a software, another snapshot is taken. The program then copies any different files/data to a image and installs that image onto the client PC's.

We have automated everything from IE4 to NAV5 to MS OFFICE and hundreds of other apps, so it works very well on a large scale PC environment, if thats what you wanted.

BBA