Leozack Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 Ok thought I'd sign up to post this because it's driven me crazy. Anytime I've used the makemsi routine and run the msi's they've hung (especially when deployed via gpo) and that's happened at multiple sites over the years including upto the latest version. I've tried making it a silentinstall startup script and though the script runs fine while logged in as admin, when run as a startup script it fails (I don't see why as other software installs fine from startup scripts) What can I do to actually deploy this successfully without doing it as local admin on each pc? If there is a secret to get the msi's working then what is it! D: TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 I don't know ... I've never heard of anyone having this kind of trouble Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leozack Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 I really dunno but on various sites I use the createmsi method but the msi's hang so I can't use them as startup deployment or they never get to the logon! I don't see what the problem is. And using as a startup silentinstall acts like it worked but no folder is present. Your ntoes say they need to be admin to install pdn but afaia startupscripts execute as local system and would be able to install same as it does for my quicktime/flash/java/etc startup scripts I use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 What type of deployment are you trying to do? Are we talking about a large corporate network, or a small home network, or what? Maybe there's another way of installing that's simpler or more appropriate (or maybe not). Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leozack Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 Medium school networks really - anything from 20-100 pcs/laptops/whatever. I just don't see why using createmsi and then deploying with gpo would hang the startup but running the msi's myself hangs them near the end too so something in them gets stuck I guess. But why the silent install method also fails whilst looking like it's working just baffles me. Is there any kind of debug I can do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leozack Posted November 14, 2011 Author Share Posted November 14, 2011 Any thoughts? It's often just 20-80 pcs on a school network that want it. Is there anyway to debug the msi's I create to see why they hang or anything? Or a way to find why silent installs as a startup script don't work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 I don't know man. Like I said, nobody else has reported something like this. I have no idea what's going on with your systems And I don't have the hours or days it would take to debug this for you. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leozack Posted November 14, 2011 Author Share Posted November 14, 2011 If I was better with msi's in Orca or something I could maybe fiddle and debug it myself - butI really never figured out how to - say - skip a section and see if that helps, or get it to record how long each step takes or where it gets to if it doesn't finish? I don't mind debugging myself as long as I know how Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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