Software Deployment

You can either use something like AutoIt [shudder...] or do a proper job and capture to an MSI. If it's already an MSI (other than a dumb wrapper on an EXE, of course), it should be simple to determine what is producing the dialog/message box and prevent its execution.

write a vbscript using SendKeys which will automatically click OK button which finish window arises.

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You can either use something like AutoIt [shudder...] or do a proper job and capture to an MSI. If it's already an MSI (other than a dumb wrapper on an EXE, of course), it should be simple to determine what is producing the dialog/message box and prevent its execution.


Alas they are EXE's and I forgot to mention I am using vmware machines with WPS - so I can't capture the actual installation of the drivers because I don't have the backup tape drive connected to it!

I'll give the SendKeys a go and see if that works - but I'm imagining that if someone is using the device at the time, that could cause the SendKeys command to affect the wrong window?

write a vbscript using SendKeys which will automatically click OK button which finish window arises.

One piece of advice: DO NOT do the above.

First of all make sure the drivers are signed, if they're not, there's a nice post on these forums on how to sign them yourself.
Then, like Ian said, make an MSI out of the driver installation so you have full control over its installation and removal.

Rgds,

PJ

AutoIt is very handy to this kind of situation.

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write a vbscript using SendKeys which will automatically click OK button which finish window arises.

One piece of advice: DO NOT do the above.

First of all make sure the drivers are signed, if they're not, there's a nice post on these forums on how to sign them yourself.
Then, like Ian said, make an MSI out of the driver installation so you have full control over its installation and removal.

Rgds,

PJ

AutoIt

Thanks for the advice. I figured that using AppActivate/SendKeys or AutoIT wouldn't work properly because A) I'd need to make the script run at the right time (which I wouldn't know how to do that cleverly), and B) RADIA may well deploy the package to the server when nobody is logged onto it (hence the Sendkeys or AutoIT wouldn't do anything!

As I only have a day to do this I'll have to just media drop it and run the install in silent mode, with no delete method in Radia. I guess that's the best I can do. I will look up on the driver signing thread though, thanks.

Mark