Hopefully you can get the MSI; but sometimes those setup.exe built by consoles imbed the public properties into the exe; so figuring out what properties you need to duplicate in your msi command line can sometimes be fun.
John's suggestion of a wrapper is what I was also going to suggest; but I'd probably add some conditions. I'd use a vbscript ('cause I use them more than a bat); and because I know how w/a vbscript to test for "if return code = 1, then send back a 0, else send back whatever the real error code was"
Here's a basic vbscript, running an application & sending back the return code:
on error resume next
Set sho = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strCurrentDir = Left(Wscript.ScriptFullName, (InstrRev(Wscript.ScriptFullName, "\") -1))
strcmd = strcurrentDir & "\activexinstaller /L:40 /C file://" &_
strCurrentDir & "//ebraryRdr.cab /S"
intret=sho.run(strcmd,0,vbtrue)
wscript.quit(intret)
In you case (once you adjust the strcmd to match what you need, you'd want to test intret before the quit, something like:
on error resume next
Set sho = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strCurrentDir = Left(Wscript.ScriptFullName, (InstrRev(Wscript.ScriptFullName, "\") -1))
strcmd = strcurrentDir & "\activexinstaller /L:40 /C file://" &_
strCurrentDir & "//ebraryRdr.cab /S"
intret=sho.run(strcmd,0,vbtrue)
if intret=1 then
wscript.quit(intret)
Sherry Kissinger
Microsoft MVP - ConfigMgr
mofmaster@smsexpert.com
--- On Thu, 1/1/09, John.Nelson2@wellsfargo.com <John.Nelson2@wellsfargo.com> wrote:
From: John.Nelson2@wellsfargo.com <John.Nelson2@wellsfargo.com>
Subject: RE: [mssms] Symantec Enpoint Protection Deployment
To: mssms@lists.myITforum.com
Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 3:54 AM
If the install is an MSI, you can just run MSIEXEC /M MIF_File.mif and a status mif will be created. Then you just have to make sure your package looks for that .MIF filename and success will get picked up properly.
An alternative would be to wrap your program with a .bat file or a .vbs which runs the SEP install and returns a 0 instead of letting the SEP install return a 1.
.bat file example
ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
Set THISDIR = %~dp0
"%THISDIR%setup_file.exe" /switch /switch
EXIT 0
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From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of Rick Helstrom
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:37 PM
To: mssms@lists.myITforum.com
Subject: [mssms] Symantec Enpoint Protection Deployment
Hello everyone:
I am deploying SEP 11 on an enterprise scale and I find that it returns an exit code of 1 on apparently successful installations. I donʼt get any reports of successful deployment yet the client does appear to be functioning correctly. Is there an easy way to get SCCM to show the install was successful on an exit code of 1 so I can more easily focus on true failures for resolution? I have looked into the ISMIF32.exe but all the documentation I find for it relates back to SMS 1.2 or 2.0. (And I am not all that clear on how to use it either)
For the deployment itself I am using the EXE created by from the SEP console via the Export Install Package process.
Thanks,
Rick
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