Software deployment

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With AutoDesk software installations, the best way I've found to install them is to launch the setup.exe that's generated when creating the deployment from within the AutoDesk installer. These are standard network installers. The line I use in the batch script looks something like this:

start /wait \\domain.com\Deployments\AutoCAD_2015\Img\Setup.exe /Q /I \\domain.com\Deployments\AutoCAD_2015\Img\AutoCAD_2015.ini /language en-us

The issue is that I've got 4 different versions of AutoCAD set to install from the K1000, and even though they each have a different order number set, they seem to start on top of each other. The odd behavior this is causing is that this install script runs, the AutoDesk installer sees that another AutoDesk installer is running and fails, but that happens on the setup.exe level. The K1000 marks the software as "installed" and doesn't retry until the computer is inventoried 4 hours later or manual intervention is involved.

I'm pretty sure that the "start /wait" works for a bit to hold the installation process open and prevents the K1000 agent from telling the K1000 appliance that the software has finished installing successfully.... That is, until the setup.exe spawns the other installers that are involved. After that happens it appears that the "start /wait" stops waiting and the K1000 tries moving onto the next software, which happens to be the next AutoDesk application.

I'd like do one of two things here:

1. To make my batch script first check and see if the setup.exe is still running, and if it does send a message back to the kace that it's failed and needs to be retried.

2. To find another method for calling that setup.exe and waiting until it's truly 100% finished before telling the K1000 to proceed with the next installation.

From the AutoCAD install log that shows why the second/third/fourth installations are failing:

2016/8/22:11:54:35 SYSTEM TEST-VM CommandLine /Q /I \\domain.com\Deployments\AutoCAD_2015\Img\AutoCAD_2015.ini /language en-us

2016/8/22:11:54:35 SYSTEM TEST-VM Another Autodesk install/update is now occurring on this computer. Please wait for that to complete and then click Retry.

2016/8/22:11:54:35 SYSTEM TEST-VM === Setup ended ===

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> I see MST's for some of the MSI's, but not all of them. Is this a problem?
Not in the least. Itjust means I was happy to allow defaults for that sub-product.

>custom support paths
I don't know what these are - I'm the packager not the user! :-) Your best bet is to find out where that configuration is recorded (i.e. in the registry, in a config XML/INI/whatever) and then add that to the appropriate MST or just build your own MSI/script to add the configuration.

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instead of using batch files use powershell you will have the power to run a program and wait for return and can detect if a program is running

Get-Process -Name 'calc' will return with out errors if calculator is running this can be used to see a process is running

will start program and wait for it to finish before doing the next step

Start-Process myprogram.exe -NoNewWindow -Wait

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> the best way I've found to install them is to launch the setup.exe
Nope. Find the installer batch file that Autodesk give you. That performs an installation using the MSIs, for which you should create MSTs: installing using the defaults means you get, for example, automatic updates, which you *really* don't want.

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>I guess what you're saying isNot really, no. What I'm saying is, creating transforms against the vendor's MSIs allows you to fine tune the installation and log each part of the installation separately. Here's a heavily edited version of an Autodesk command file that I use for NavisWorks Freedom. It looks complicated but it's pretty straightforward, really. Basically, you pass a set of up to 4 parameters to the DoInstall "function": Path_to_and_Name_of_MSI, Path_to_and_name_of_MST, Path_to_and_Name_of_Logfile and optionally, Path_to_and_name_of_secondary_transform.set logfilepath=%windir%\TEMP:// MSXML 6.0 Parser:// This product is installed by a separate process:// Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable (x64):// This product is installed by a separate process:// Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable (x64):// This product is installed by a separate process:// Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x86):// This product is installed by a separate process:// Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x64):// This product is installed by a separate process:// Universal C Runtime (KB3118401):// This product is installed by a separate process:// Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x86):// This product is installed by a separate process:// Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64):// This product is installed by a separate process:// DirectX® Runtime:// This product is installed by a separate process:// .NET Framework Runtime 4.6:// This product is installed by a separate process:// .NET Framework Runtime 4.6 Language pack:// This product is installed by a separate process:// Below, the log file names "proper" are prefixed with a sequence number, :// simply so that they appear in the log file folder in the order in which they were installed:// Autodesk Material Library 2017call :DoInstall Img\Content\ADSKMaterials\2017\CM\MaterialLibrary2017, Img\Content\ADSKMaterials\2017\CM\Autodesk_MaterialLibrary2017_15.11.3.0_x64_1.00_DE, 01Autodesk_MaterialLibrary2017_15.11.3.0_x64_1.00_DE:// Autodesk Material Library Base Resolution Image Library 2017call :DoInstall Img\Content\ADSKMaterials\2017\ILB\BaseImageLibrary2017, Img\Content\ADSKMaterials\2017\ILB\Autodesk_BaseImageLibrary2017_15.11.3.0_x64_1.00_DE, 02Autodesk_BaseImageLibrary2017_15.11.3.0_x64_1.00_DE:// Autodesk Advanced Material Library 2017call :DoInstall Img\Content\ADSKMaterials\2017\CM_Advanced\AdvancedMaterialLibrary2017, Img\Content\ADSKMaterials\2017\CM_Advanced\Autodesk_AdvancedMaterialLibrary2017_15.11.3.0_x64_1.00_DE, 03Autodesk_AdvancedMaterialLibrary2017_15.11.3.0_x64_1.00_DE:// Autodesk Advanced Material Library Image Library 2017call :DoInstall Img\Content\ADSKMaterials\2017\AIL\AdvancedImageLibrary2017, Img\Content\ADSKMaterials\2017\AIL\Autodesk_AdvancedImageLibrary2017_15.11.3.0_x64_1.00_DE, 04Autodesk_AdvancedImageLibrary2017_15.11.3.0_x64_1.00_DE:// Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2017call :DoInstall Img\x64\NAVFREE\freedom, Img\x64\NAVFREE\Autodesk_NavisworksFreedom2017_14.0.1298.75_x64_1.00_DE, 05Autodesk_NavisworksFreedom2017_14.0.1298.75_x64_1.00_DE, Img\x64\de-de\NAVFREE\freedom:// Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2017 - Deutsch (German) Language Packcall :DoInstall Img\x64\de-de\NAVFREE\NAVFREE_LP, Img\x64\NAVFREE\Autodesk_NavisworksFreedom2017_14.0.1298.75_x64_1.00_DE, 06Autodesk_NavisWorksFreedom2017_GermanLanguagePack_14.0.1298.75_x64_1.00_DEif %errorlevel%==0 goto Endecho Installation failed - error %errorlevel% occured:Endexit /b %errorlevel%:// Functions:// :// DoInstall :DoInstall setlocal set MSI=%~1 set MST=%~2 set logfilename=%~3 set MST2=%~4 set logfile=%LOGFILEPATH%\Install_%LOGFILENAME%.LOG call :StrLen MST2 StringLength if %StringLength%==0 goto SingleTransform msiexec /i "%~dp0%MSI%.MSI" TRANSFORMS="%~dp0%MST%.MST;%~dp0%MST2%.MST" /qn /l*v "%LOGFILE%" goto TestErrorLevel :SingleTransform msiexec /i "%~dp0%MSI%.MSI" TRANSFORMS="%~dp0%MST%.MST" /qn /l*v "%LOGFILE%" :TestErrorLevel if %errorlevel%==0 goto function_Success :function_Failed echo Installation failed - error %errorlevel% occured goto function_Done :function_Success echo Installation was successful :function_Done endlocal exit /b :// DoInstall end :// StrLen :StrLen setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion set "s=#!%~1!" set "len=0" for %%N in (4096 2048 1024 512 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1) do ( if "!s:~%%N,1!" neq "" ( set /a "len+=%%N" set "s=!s:~%%N!" ) ) endlocal&if "%~2" neq "" (set %~2=%len%) else echo %len% exit /b :// StrLen end:// :// Functions end:Done

Software deployment - batch script return "installation failed", or find another method for installing

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