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Software – Finale Silent Install on windows

To install Finale silently use …
FinWinSetup.exe /S

Also – it appears that copying in a “keyed” (keyServer environment) executable also “authorizes” the application on Windows without having to enter the authorization code. Therefore, to deploy this I need a batch script which executes the installer silently and then copies in the keyed copy.

For a partial reference see:


http://makemusic.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/945/

Software – Keyserver Client Silent Install

To build an installer for the Sassafras Software’s K2 – Keyserver Key Audit client use the client customization application they provide.  This is found in the
“client – misc”  folder of their computer installer archive that can be reached by logging into their Support and Downloads web page.

Their documentation…

http://www.sassafras.com/hrl/7.0/k2clientconfigW.html

I put the client installers and the k2clientconfig application in the same folder and the ran this command:

k2clientconfig.exe -s 3 -c no -b no -h keyserver.williams.edu k2Client-x64.exe

The output was:

Changing PROP_SILENCE
Changing PROP_HOSTNAME from ‘keyserver’ to ‘keyserver.williams.edu’
Changing PROP_KEYCHECKOUT from ‘2’ to ‘0’
Changing REBOOT from ‘Force’ to ‘Suppress’
Digital signature has been removed from k2Client-x64.exe

 

Software – Matlab 2011

Building a deployable and completely silent software installer for Matlab on windows is a bit of an adventure .  Clearly, each installation is different so I don’t think I can give a detailed step-by-step recipe here for every circumstance.  I can give you a few steps which took me a while to piece together from various sources and a considerable amount of trial and error …

  • Extract the installer from the vendor to a new, empty folder
  • Be sure to replace the generic “archives” folder which may initially contain only the license manager with the archives folder you have specific for the Matlab products you need to install
  • Create an installer input file with all the questions answered (a copy of ours is attached , remember to change the auth-code to your real auth code, ours is scrubbed out in this example)
    • For a completely silent install also change the “mode=automated” to “mode=silent” in this installer input file
  • If you run this in a non-FlexLM environment you also have to deal with the activation process (we run FlexLM here to simplify the process, so I can’t help you with that process …)
  • Make sure you have a copy of your network license file to copy into a known place for the installer to point at
  • Run the installer from a batch script with commands like:

    echo Copying network license file …
    xcopy /Q /Y “%install_dir%payload\matlab_network.dat” c:\windows\temp\

    echo Installing software and required conponents …
    “%install_dir%payload\bin\win64\setup.exe” -inputFile “%install_dir%payload\wc_installer_input.txt”

    Where %installdir% is set to the directory where you are running the installation. Also mind the line breaks shown here are not intended for the actual commands ….

Software – Acrobat Deployment Wizard

Like other Adobe products, there is a “wizard” available from Adobe to create a deployment installer for Acrobat pro and Acrobat Reader. Download this from:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4950

This Adobe Customization Wizard is currently only available for Windows systems. It is basically an acrobat-centric MSI editor.
To use this to create a silent installer for Acrobat Pro X …

  1. Copy the entire contents of the distribution media to disk
  2. Open the customization wizard and from the file menu select the acrobat msi which was in the contents you just copied
  3. Add name and serial # information
  4. In the options section set this for silent install only and surpress reboot
  5. In the EULA section surpress display of the EULA
  6. Save the the package

Once you have edited the MSI package in this way, you deploy the whole folder and run the “setup.exe” program in an administrative command window, batch job, or from your software deployment server such as a DEll KACE 1000.