| Title: | ObjectBroker - BEA Systems' CORBA |
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| Created: | Tue Jul 11 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Our customer wants to install OBB on up to 350 NT v3.51 clients.
Each user is a Power User on her/his respective client.
They want to perform the installation using some sort of script,
i.e. without any user interaction. However, the users do not have
the priviliges required for adding components in the Control Panel
Network applet. Although this problem can be overcome using SMS
from Microsoft, the users still have to interact with the
installation dialogs, i.e. by answering a series of questions.
According to Microsoft, this problem cannot be solved unless Digital
can supply an installation program which installs all necessary
components and make the required changes in the OS.
Hence, we have come to the conclusion that there are two possible
solutions:
1. We, i.e. Digital, delivers some sort of software which installs
OBB according to the contents of setup.inf and default settings,
with some sort of /Q (quiet) switch to avoid all dialogs.
2. We specify exactly what files have to be installed locally on the
client, and what the necessary changes to the registry are. This
information is probably available in the setup.inf file? However,
our customer does not want to dig up this information by themselves.
In short, is there a standard procedure for this type of multi-user
installation?
Thanks,
- Tomas Andersson -
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| 1389.1 | REQUE::ctxobj.zko.dec.com::Patrick | ObjectBroker Engineering | Mon Mar 24 1997 09:34 | 15 | |
I don't know of any standard procedure for multi-user installation. Further, if they don't have privileges to run control panel applets, they probably can't write into the areas of the Registry required for services and probably can't install the images into the various system directories with that very same privilege. We'd need to know information like: 1. What rights do their "Power Users" have? 2. Do they use NTFS for the system disk? Paul Patrick | |||||
| 1389.2 | STKAI1::T_ANDERSSON | Tomas Andersson | Fri Apr 04 1997 09:34 | 38 | |
I'll try to give a more complete description of the problem: What our customer wants to do is to automate the installation of OBB on a large number of NT3.51 client machines. Under normal circumstances, this involves two GUI steps: (1) starting the OBB installation program from the Network applet, and (2) interacting with the installation program. The basic requirement is that the user should not have to answer any questions during installation, i.e. no GUI interaction at all. The installation process should take care of that. This problem has been solved with respect to the OBB installation routine itself; the OBB installation routine can be modified so that no questions are asked, i.e. no interaction is necessary. Problem number two is that the users do not have sufficient priviliges to install OBB. This problem has also been solved; the installation is performed in a tailormade NT service featuring all the necessary priviliges. This service is started whenever a user wants to install an application requiring OBB. The third problem, the one that has yet to be solved, is that in order to start the actual OBB installation itself, it is necessary to enter the Control Panel GUI and start the installation from the Network applet. In NT4, it is possible to start the Control Panel Network installation program programmatically, with the OBB install file as an argument. Hence no GUI interaction at all, which is what is desired. Unfortunately, this is simply not possible in NT3.51, according to Microsoft. So, when installing OBB on a large number of clients running NT3.51, it appears that each user has to do some manual work. Is there any way that this can be avoided, so that the installation process can be accomplished with no user interaction at all? - Tomas A - | |||||
| 1389.3 | REQUE::BOWER | Peter Bower, ObjectBroker | Sun Apr 06 1997 19:48 | 8 | |
Can you somehow send keystrokes to the display to bring up the
control panel, then enter the appropriate info into the
dialog boxes to start the install program ? Microsoft Test
provides this capability - is it available through the
win32 api ? Your service could probably do this and might have
the privileges.
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