===== MSI - Microsoft Installer =====

Msi Installers are mainly needed to install Software in a network remotely, per Group Policy Objects. See the article about [[remote_installation]] for details.



==== Howto create ====

Free Software [[http://www.scalable.com/softwaredownload | WinINSTALL LE ]] is able to register all System changes before and after the installation of a programm and to pack these changes into a msi Package.





==== Adobe Reader ====



==get msi==



[[ ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/ | Here]] is an ftp Server, for downloading Adobe's standalone installers, instead of these Internet installers.



If there is no ready msi installer avaiable, then you can unpack an Adobe-Reader .exe File, to get an .msi File, which is necessary to deploy using GPO.\\

-nos_o is the extraction Folder Parameter\\

-nos_ne is the no-execution-after-unpacking Parameter

<code>

…\..\AdbeRdr1001_de_DE.exe -nos_o"Reader" -nos_ne

</code>



==patch msi using an msp file==

Often Adobe has only the Patch files in msp format on its Server. This means that we have to slipstream the patch into the msi Package.

<code>

msiexec.exe /a AcroRead.msi /p AdbeRdrUpd1001_Tier1.msp

</code>



==disabling auto updates==

[[Here | http://wpkg.org/Adobe_Reader#Adobe_Reader_X]] is a Wiki about that.