hotfixes in .MSI format

[robr]

Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has apparently decided to release the hotfixes for Microsoft Storage Server in .MSI format. Has anyone dealt with these before and what's the best way to incorporate them into an unattended install?

Directory of C:\OPKTools\Hotfixes

04/28/2004 12:00 PM 222,720 WindowsStorageServer2003FeaturePack-KB838

985.msi

04/28/2004 12:11 PM 167,424 Windows_Storage_Server_2003-KB825191.MSI

04/28/2004 12:11 PM 316,928 Windows_Storage_Server_2003-KB828214.msi

04/28/2004 12:11 PM 523,264 Windows_Storage_Server_2003-KB828878.msi

04/28/2004 12:12 PM 425,984 Windows_Storage_Server_2003-KB835152.msi

04/28/2004 12:18 PM 425,472 Windows_Storage_Server_2003-KB838238.msi

[Aaron]

Doesn't the common /qn or /qb work on them?

[robr]

i havent integrated an MSI into an unattended install before, but i had thought that the msiexec installer wasnt available during windows setup.

[gosh]

I think you can install windows installer programs during setup, but in general this is not advisable. Therefore you would need to install them using guirunonce, or runonce, or runonceex. You could always extract the .msi and manually install the hotfix.

-gosh

[robr]

Thanks, here's MS' response which is the same as yours, I'll give this a shot

Include them in the OEMRunOnce section of the winbom.ini, so they are

installed on the first boot to the Windows Desktop.

Example:

[OEMRunOnce]

"Example Hot Fix","""\\OPKSERVER\OPKTools\Apps\msxml4qfe.exe"" /Q

/C:""msiexec /l msxml.msi /qn"" "