Archive: NSIS & App deployment?
NSIS & App deployment?
Hello,
Just found this neat scriptable installer and wondered if it can be used as application deployment aswell?
we want to plug a pc onto the network, turn it on and the OS + required apps for that machine will be installed on it (by using RAT or something I believe)
Will this work (without being an .MSI) ?
nsis needs a ready setup windows to work.
you may download applications through nsis (nsisdl plugin, e.g.) and install them (file operations, registry, shortcuts ... all possible) but you cant install windows itself.
Well, I've informed by a collegue and apparently it's something like this...
the pc boots on a special boot sector that starts an unattended/silent windows installation over the network
once that is done it boots windows and that special deploy client runs applications/scripts in sequence like...
join computer onto xxx domain (.vbs)
install Office with the right parameters (.exe/msi)
install winzip
etc
thus I guess that this installer can be of any use anyway since windows is running already.
In that case this is possible. Just use Exec or ExecWait to run external applications.
-Stu