Good morning, i am having a problem installing a msi file off the network. Creating an administrative install point for adobe reader. We started by creating an administrative install point of 10. Before the patch step, one should first create an administrative install point from the original msi using the syntax msiexec a original. To update the admin install point, you simply copy all the applicable office update files into the updates folder of the aip. An aip typically contains another, much smaller, msifile, and some other files andor subdirectories. Aips allow you to create a canonical set of preconfigured files in one location that can be distributed across your organization from one location. I dont know whether its caused by my specific office deployment based off of an administrative install point with several patches preintegrated, or just faulty logic on microsofts part, but its occurred often enough that ive built custom copies of a dozen or so of the office patch fixlets. Note that when an msi is released for reader, it is usually not accompanied by an msp.
I have heard from a couple of customers who are trying to create a windows installer administrative install point that contains the. Open a command prompt and use the msiexec command to uninstall. Step one of an unistall is to remove any old components that are dependent on core arcmap and were installed separately. Silent install of windows installer runtime engine. The target folder will then contain a newer msi and any new files provided the admin patch works, which it generally doesnt in my experience. After the service pack or patch has been applied to the administrative. For updates to an office administrative installation point, you can go to the office download center and download the updates that are identified as administrative installation updates. Finally the creation of msi patches typically requires an admin install to be run. An administrative installation point is a method of installing software to multiple computers on a network using microsofts install engine. Hello i am trying to update our deployment of acrobat pro extended 9. What i would like to do is create an administrative point and slipstream sp2 in and install my clients from there. In this article she focuses on the command line arguments and the silent switches that can be used for msi and msp uninstallable patches.
This is typically most useful to install software to multiple computers in large scale deployments, to inspect the msi file contents and structure, to patch and upgrade, and to ensure that the source files are always available for any repair operations. Is it possible to recab an administrative install point. How to create an administrative install point for the. Click start, click run, type msiexec unregister, and then click ok. An administrative installation installs a source image of the application onto the network that is similar to a source image on a cdrom. Wsus, office 2003, sp2 and administrative install points. How to apply a service packpatch to an administrative.
How to apply a service packpatch to an administrative installation. Applying a patch package to an administrative installation win32. I originally posted instructions about how to create an admin install point for the. To upgrade workstations from an administrative installation point. Run new patch on client computer msiexec p newpatch. Create an administrative installation point aip on the. The latter is the creation of a point on a network share, from which all installs are conducted.
These points also act as an archive of what you installed. Windows installer and msiexec have been updated with each major release of windows from 2000 to xp to 2008 r2 windows installer redistributables are available at. This includes often one or more cab andor mspfiles. The microsoft article deploying product updates from an administrative installation point describes among others how.
You extract the msi and patch the admin image with the msp. Even if you do this correctly, it may look like nothing occurs. You must first apply the service pack or patch to the administrative installation point. Click start, click run, type msiexec regserver, and then click ok. It is created by extracting the contents of a selfcontained msifile into a previously empty directory with the command msiexec a. The name of the msi file varies depending on the product name and. This is a technology that lets the windows installer among other things to determine which order patches are applied and also allows patches to be applied during installation. Net framework with a service pack and the latest hotfix ms05004.
All the parameters available for use in a response file can be used on the command. To install the app on the target device, tap settings, and let the app be installed. I dont see any way to find all the applicable office 32bit updates or all the post sp2 updates, excluding ones superseded by newer updates and save the correct ones into the updates folder. Users in a workgroup who have access to this administrative image can then install the product from this source. This tool gives you full control over the installation process, allowing you to set. The end result is a neat folder hierarchy showing where files will go on the target system, and a smaller. If problems occur, locate the patch log file in the users temporary folder. An alternative is to extract the msi to an administrative install point aip, slipstream the msp into the aip, then install that updated aip see my mspdescription example install adobe reader 11. I did it for 1 msp file with the command msiexec p patch. Administrative installation win32 apps microsoft docs. Install all acrobat 8 patches in one step with adobe bootstrapper and patch sequencing. Install programs and multiple patches with one command line. Administrative installation point aip an aip is not a file, but a special directory.
After reading up on it, i figured out the exact patch order that adobe required, extracted my cd to an administrative. To completely reinstall the applications and cache the updated. Down the road at some point youll likely need to either upgrade or remove that package, which is accomplished. Administrative installation points dc windows desktop deployment. Patch your administrative install with the msiexec p patch. This last point can be important in lockeddown environments. After you build your release, you can install your windows installer package. This is advantageous to administrators of a large group of users. The msiexec command can accept two types of parameters on the command line, as follows standard command line parameters, preceded by a character for a table of the msiexec command line parameters, see the msdn commandline options web page propertyvalue pair parameters on the command line. Using msiexec to manually apply a service pack or hotfix.
Create a distribution point folder where machines can install the uncompressed program files e. How to massdownload office updates for administrative. Applying a patch package to an administrative installation. Otherwise the patch will simply update the msi cached on the target machine. Backup the installer files both the msi and any needed msp files to a location where you will store the original downloads. Wsus, office 2003, sp2 and administrative install points showing 115 of 15 messages. All of my client machines run nonadmin so i need the msi to run as administrator so that the standard users can install this program off the network but not programs that i do not allow. Administrative installation points dc windows desktop. To install the windows installer runtime silently, use the following command line. Reinstall your client installations by send the the msiexec vasu command to them can use other parameters, v is key however.
We are not deploying the updates via group policy, as our deployment of acrobat pro is on demand, therefore i initially wish to update the administrative installation point. Once youve created the administrative install points described above, you should be able to install the msis in the administrative install point folders directly or use steps like the ones previously published for the. How to create an administrative installation point for. The admin install itself simply extracts the files from internal cab files and adjusts the media layout of the msi file to use the extracted files for installation instead of the internal cab files. Now, do an administrative install to a shared network location. For security updates on either a stand alone computer or an administrative installation point, you can go to the ms technet security bulletin search site and. I read that an administrative installation needs to be created, and then patched. Even if you do this correctly, it may look like nothing occurs, or you may briefly. Change to the aip directory, then apply the patch to the admin install point. What is the purpose of administrative installation initiated using. You may apply the small update to an administrative source image of mnp2000. Silently install the msi package and write the installation log to file c. I will now patch my administrative install with the msp using the following command. The network share must provide authenticated users and domain computers with read access.