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RE: .msi Installer for Point 6.2?

RhinoSS — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:08:36 GMT

After talking to a few people in Calyx support, I believe we've found a solution.

First add the following String values to the "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Calyx Software\Point\User Information" key in registry

[u]Value / Data[/u]
User / User Name
Company / Company Name
AccountID / Account ID

After these values are on your workstations, continue your chosen deployment method in which you use a Basic UI or silent install of the MSI.
For example, we've chosen to deploy the MSI through group policy. The same would work for using SMS, Zenworks, etc.

RE: .msi Installer for Point 6.2?

RhinoSS — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:00:05 GMT

The MSI does appear to function properly when run by itself. The only issue is that, as supplied, I have not yet been able to automate a deployment. If you are to try an install using MSIExec, with the /qb or /qn arguments, the installer errors and states the Account ID is missing. Looking at the MSI in Installshield AdminStudio I haven't found a property that appears to be the Account ID.
To make it a true silent install we need to find a way to specify the Account ID at runtime; Either through the use of an MST, or a command line switch.

Has anyone had any luck using either of these methods?

.msi Installer for Point 6.2?

PCM — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:16:25 GMT

Has the .msi installer package been fixed for Point 6.2? It failed validation in 6.1 and 6.1a. Naturally, this meant that I either supply all users with local admin rights to install the updates or (which is what we did), roll it out one-by-one, taking about 3 hours to roll out the latest updates.