IEAK 7 Problems with Install.ins

[adrianbodor]

hy

I have a few questions. In want to make a silent install of IE7 using the IEAK 7 from Microsoft.

I have ended all steps and the final files includes along with the others one more file named "Install.ins"

This contains all customize settings i made with IEAK

How can I use Install.ins along with the IE7 file?

I installed the .exe succesfuly silent but without information from Install.ins

I searched on the net but i didn't find anything concludent.

[snooz]

hy

I have a few questions. In want to make a silent install of IE7 using the IEAK 7 from Microsoft.

I have ended all steps and the final files includes along with the others one more file named "Install.ins"

This contains all customize settings i made with IEAK

How can I use Install.ins along with the IE7 file?

I installed the .exe succesfuly silent but without information from Install.ins

I searched on the net but i didn't find anything concludent.

Whenever you get to the end of the IEAK and it builds the package it puts it into the following folder by default:

Directory of C:\builds\"DATE"\INS\WIN32\EN

You will have the following files in there:

10/27/2006 10:18 AM 2,091 axaa.inf

10/27/2006 10:18 AM 4,781 BRANDING.CAB

10/24/2006 10:22 AM 0 custom.cif

10/27/2006 10:18 AM 7,761 custsec.inf

01/06/2007 04:51 PM 16,621,568 IE7Setup.exe

10/17/2006 06:07 PM 2,510 IESetup.CIF

10/27/2006 10:18 AM 1,557 inetcorp.inf

10/27/2006 10:18 AM 9,488 inetrest.inf

10/27/2006 10:18 AM 4,663 inetset.inf

11/03/2006 04:19 PM 1,541 INSTALL.INS

All the files in the above folder have been packaged into IE7Setup.exe using iexpress. If you want to see how the install stuff is done extract IE7Setup.exe and look at the files in there. It will look like this:

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 132,608 advpack.dll

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 4,781 BRANDING.CAB

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 15,520,048 IE7-Setup.exe

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 38 IE7Setup.cmd

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 31,352 ieakcust.dll

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 382,976 iedkcs32.dll

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 2,932 iesetup.cif

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 31 iesetup.ini

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 100,472 inseng.dll

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 1,541 INSTALL.INS

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 1,170,040 Urlmon.dll

10/27/2006 11:18 AM 826,488 Wininet.dll

Open up IE7Setup.cmd and you will notice the following command-line:

%~dp0IE7-Setup.exe /ieak-full:%~dp0 %*

That command is what tells it is an IEAK install and uses the INSTALL.INS and other files to incorporate your settings.

You can also add /passive /norestart to the end of it to play around with what the user sees.

Hope this helps.

Edited January 6, 2007 by snooz

[adrianbodor]

many thx

[ratba_tardly]

snooz,

the switches should go where exactly: inside the .cmd file or ? Is this a way around the AK7 limitation for stage 3 that requires a "Corporate Admin" license? Or did I get the wrong version of the AK?

tanks!

rat

[gosh]

If you're installing ie7 during windows setup it's very easy to use install.inf. Simply delete install.in_ and put install.ins in it's place, windows will use that.

You can also point to the install.inf using the unattend file for windows xp setup.

-gosh