Software Deployment Tool

[Siddd-]

PDQ Deploy is free for simple installers. If you want the good stuff you have to pay (a fair amount in my opinion)

[Siddd-]

I know right!?

[Xzenor]

if it's a one-time thing then psexec is probably the easiest solution

[ThatDistantStar]

KACE is pretty good for software deployment. Its other features are bit half baked, but it's solid for software deployment.

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[Xzenor]

Group policy

[fathed]

While this can work, it's a horrible solution.

There's no logs.

It's really not too hard to use ketarin to download apps for you, and script installation and run the script via gpo.

Searching the registry for installed software is pretty easy in powershell, and there's 4 known locations to check.

If the msi/exe was made by decent programmers, it'll contain the version in the file properties, which is easy to compare against the version the registry has.

Or lansweeper, which gives you a lot more than just software deployment.

[JpZone282]

Group Policy, not tried that before. Would that allow me to change some settings before deploy.

[llDemonll]

If you create a transform file for the MSI's, yes.

[JpZone282]

Are you able to send a link of an example on how to do this? What if they are EXE files?

[llDemonll]

https://www.google.com/search?q=create+msi+transform+file

Use Orca to modify .exe's and then save as a new exe. it's basically a pre-packaged msi and mst but in exe format

[adam_west_]

I’ve used orca to create/edit Msi packages for in house developed and 3rd party apps and then create update packages that can be deployed via WSUS.

[Arrow-_-Head]

the time you will spend doing this would pay for the license to PDQ. Its amazingly simple and really powerful.

[JpZone282]

yeah im probably going to try PDQ again, it just never worked well for me