You have a new Laser Printer yyyy. 50 users need the printer software installed on their computers. Most of the users are comfortable launching a batch file from an e-mail client.
Using a text editor, create a script. For a sample script, see Creating install scripts.
Copy the script to your LAN drive in a folder created to house install scripts and the log files they generate.
J:\source\scripts\yyyy.isf
Create an image of the extracted Package Builder contents.
J:\source\driverscd
Create a batch file to use your script as a guide for running Script Install. For more information, see Using install scripts with batch files.
Send an e-mail to your 50 users with the batch file attached.
Occasionally check the output file yyyy.log. It accumulates time-stamped summary of installations.
| Note: | Local installations only work when the user accounts running the local installation have administrative privileges. |
Suppose your users are not comfortable using their computers for unfamiliar tasks. Rather than having your users launch a batch file themselves from an e-mail client, you can customize their network login script to launch Script Install for them when they log in to their accounts.
The following lines, if added to a network login script, automatically runs Script Install for each user. This is only true if Script Install is not yet running.
if exist C:\dunscrpt.out goto continue
J:\source\driverscd\install\x86\InstallGui.exe /I:J:\source\scripts\yyyy.isf /O:J:\source\scripts\yyyy.log
| Note: | You may need to use the x64 path instead of x86 depending on your system requirements. |
>C:\dunscrpt.out echo Installation already attempted on this workstation :continue