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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 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
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
…\..\AdbeRdr1001_de_DE.exe -nos_o"Reader" -nos_ne
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.
msiexec.exe /a AcroRead.msi /p AdbeRdrUpd1001_Tier1.msp
disabling auto updates
http://wpkg.org/Adobe_Reader#Adobe_Reader_X is a Wiki about that.