If you ‘ve packaged many apps using the Powershell Application Deployment Toolkit and are moving to Intune, you can still use this format without having to re-package the app as an MSI. And as a bonus, any installation modifications that you’ve added to the PSADT script will most likely work. Remember to test, test test!…
Ever get this when trying to create an MSI from an exe, or MST from an MSI? Usually this happens when a separate driver install is triggered in the exe, or as a custom action in the msi, and the driver is untrusted.To get around this you’ll need extract the driver files and certificate to…
If you are testing multiple App-V packages and want to save a ton of time adding and publishing manually each package via elevated powershell, do the following: Create a folder on the root of C: named Packages. On the desktop create the following ps1 script: # Get the ID and security principal of the current user…
Background: I recently scripted a nightmare app where its install could only be completed if users navigated to the launch exe and ran it as an administrator. The reason is that whoever built the install forgot to add a COM object registration in the main installer package, so they added the bandaid fix to the…
There have been times where I’ve had an SCCM application deployment fail because the app install writes to the user’s registry hive. In other words, since the application is installed under the local system account, the HKCU specific keys are not written. To get around this easily is to have the application set to be…
Just a list of functions I use regularly in PSADT, will update periodically. ##***Commonly used PSADT env variables $envCommonDesktop # C:\Users\Public\Desktop $envCommonPrograms # C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs $envCommonStartMenu # C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu $envProgramFiles # C:\Program Files $envProgramFilesX86 # C:\Program Files (x86) $envProgramData # c:\ProgramData \ $envUserDesktop # c:\Users\{user currently logged in}\Desktop $envUserStartMenuPrograms # c:\Users\{user currently logged in}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start…
Go to http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html and download the windows ActiveX MSI installer, and the Plug in installer Also download the latest uninstall_flash_player.exe. Use the Powershell Application Deployment toolkit. Create 2 folders for your files : Files and SupportFiles and add with the PSADT toolkit files. Copy to the Files folder: install_flash_player_22_active_x.msi, install_flash_player_22_plugin.msi, and uninstall_flash_player.exe. In the SupportFiles folder create…
With Java 8u91 runtime I found that my old recipe no longer worked. Before, I would install JRE by running the exe in a batch file or vbscript wrapper: jre-7u51-windows-i586.EXE Params: /s ADDLOCAL=ALL SYSTRAY=0 EULA=0 IEXPLORER=1 JAVAUPDATE=0 AUTOUPDATECHECK=0 JU=0 SPONSORS=0 REBOOT=ReallySuppress The other way to install it is by extracting the msi from the exe, but you are…
Powershell Application Deployment Toolkit is a quick and easy way to create a script wrapper to install an msi, exe, and also perform many other functions using powershell cmdlets. It kind of reminds me of Wisescript but it’s free and there’s no compiling of exe’s to run the script. I recently discovered an issue that I…