How do I install a .EXE rather than a .MSI?

[Guest]

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I'm just starting to get my feet wet with Group Policy and Software
installation.

I was going to use .EXE to test with, but when I go into Software
installation to add a new package it only has .MSI as a file extension.
What am I missing here?
How do I install an .EXE?

Thanks

Kelvin

 

[Guest]

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GP only does MSI's. If you want to do an exe you would have to call it from
a batch file or something in the login script and use a silent install.

"Kelvin Beaton" <kelvin at mccsa dot com> wrote in message
news:uiPPMuCcEHA.368@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I'm just starting to get my feet wet with Group Policy and Software
> installation.
>
> I was going to use .EXE to test with, but when I go into Software
> installation to add a new package it only has .MSI as a file extension.
> What am I missing here?
> How do I install an .EXE?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kelvin
>
>

 

[Si]

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to use an exe in gp as far as s/w distribution goes you
need to create what is called a .zap file you do not as
suggested have to use a batch file - the .zap file is a
simple text file - check the kb for info


>-----Original Message-----
>GP only does MSI's. If you want to do an exe you would
have to call it from
>a batch file or something in the login script and use a
silent install.
>
>"Kelvin Beaton" <kelvin at mccsa dot com> wrote in message
>news:uiPPMuCcEHA.368@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> I'm just starting to get my feet wet with Group Policy
and Software
>> installation.
>>
>> I was going to use .EXE to test with, but when I go
into Software
>> installation to add a new package it only has .MSI as a
file extension.
>> What am I missing here?
>> How do I install an .EXE?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Kelvin
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>

 

[alex]

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What I've found is if you run the setup EXE on your machine, it'll
create temp files in c:\documents and settings\*username*\local
settings\temp - sometimes you will find the msi and related files in
there. I've used this method recently for .NET framework and MSXML
and it works great.

 

[Guest]

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Thanks for the reply

XPSP2.exe is the file I was playing around with. I figured out that I can
UnZip it and file I need is there.
xpsp2\update\update.msi

Thanks


"si" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:266501c4704a$cf568060$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> to use an exe in gp as far as s/w distribution goes you
> need to create what is called a .zap file you do not as
> suggested have to use a batch file - the .zap file is a
> simple text file - check the kb for info
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>GP only does MSI's. If you want to do an exe you would
> have to call it from
>>a batch file or something in the login script and use a
> silent install.
>>
>>"Kelvin Beaton" <kelvin at mccsa dot com> wrote in message
>>news:uiPPMuCcEHA.368@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>> I'm just starting to get my feet wet with Group Policy
> and Software
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> I was going to use .EXE to test with, but when I go
> into Software
>>> installation to add a new package it only has .MSI as a
> file extension.
>>> What am I missing here?
>>> How do I install an .EXE?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Kelvin
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>.
>>