How do you deploy your network apps?

Eddietop

Eddietop

Eddietop

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I'm trying to work out a way to install Firefox 3 on my 60 odd machines.

Firefox 2 requires local admin privs to update itself, so many of the machines on my network are running very old versions of FF2.

I know there is a command line switch, "/S", for a silent install of Firefox in the default locations, but i don't want this to run each time as some people are already upto date.

This got me thinking there must be an easier way to keep 3rd party apps current and deploy new ones across a network.

It would be easier for me to keep IE on the machines and let WSUS take care of the updates, but that's just wrong :(
 
Still using SMS 2003, for apps that dont have MSI installers i use Macrovision flexnet studio to repackage them into suitable msi's for distribution via SMS
 
You could use a login script;

Checks for a txt file on startup: ff3.txt or something.
If its absent then run the update & create the file; if it exists then skip?
 
SMS (well, SCCM now) all the way, as that's my job :p Hate to think how many apps I've packaged up over the years.

For my Firefox installs (of which we have a whole 1 lol) I think I used the standard installer with the custom ini file.

Maybe use a machine startup script to run the install once? Couple of ways you could do that.

www.appdeploy.com is good for info on how to do stuff.
 
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Ended adding a load of code into my already massive logon script. Installs Firefox silently then sets a custom reg key with the version number, checks the version is out of date before installing again the next time. I will just have to remember to keep it current.

It's bad that Firefox requires local admin rights to update it's self tbh.
 
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