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I have a task of creating MSI packages of third party installers so that the software can be deploy via group policy. I have one installer program that cannot be repackaged because MSI repacking does not support driver installations. So I had hoped I could create an MSI that started an autoit that would drive the responses to the vendors installation windows. Problem is that I want to do a machine install which means that autoit would be running under a service using the "local system" credential during the reboot process prior to any logons.

I suspect that this is not possible. However, I am aware that multiple desktops are possible and perhaps Autoit can do some magic to get around this like defining a window interactive desktop invoking the setup code and working with windows in that desktop. It certainly would be cool if this were possible and it would allow MSI wrappers to third party setups and thereby extend the power of group policy machine installs.

Can Autoit manage this?

Thanks for any replies in advance.

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Instead of creating an MSI, create an AutoIt .exe executable that starts by running the Installer and will then go through all of the Installer's options for you.

You can compile a AutoIt .au3 script to a .exe. The .exe files are usually less than 200k.

-John

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Have a look at Appdeploy. Nearly any EXE-based setup can be silenced with command line options so that a user can't disrupt the install. You can then call the setup from an MSI created with the Windows Installer Wrapper Wizard for your distribution.

A caveat, MSIs created with WIWW have a bad entry in the properties table for language, I don't remember the actual property name, but it has a comma or semicolon that shouldn't be there...

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