cjoyce1980 Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 I've been looking for a while now to repackage my old EXE's to MSI's to allow quiet unattended installations.I've used a few MSI wrappers but to aval. does anyone know of an easy to use freeware MSI's creator or EXE to MSI convertor.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bj-kaiser Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 (edited) You could try WixEdit, however it is not wizard-like, but more a GUI to the XML-Structure of Microsofts Windows Installer XML (WIX) toolset. So you really have to know what you want to archieve and how the MSI system works.--http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/edit: d'oh, I just read 'free' in your post. Well, WixEdit is free, but from my point of view not easy to use. Edited April 23, 2007 by bj-kaiser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjoyce1980 Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 (edited) wow!!! that tool is just crazy. dont think i'll be using that. this is just a thought but how about an installation file creator but will allow me to creator silent install exe's, if MSI's are going to be a problem? Edited April 23, 2007 by cjoyce1980 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahoo27 Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 thanks for the link. even i was looking for the same since long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bj-kaiser Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 hm, do you need a EXE that always runs a specified setup or can you supply commandline parameters?InnoSetup for example has the built-in ability in every Setup you create, to save and read answers to/from inf-files. The path to the answer file has to be given as a commandline parameter.Or you could use NSIS and use a custom header file and some macros, that allow to provide answers by either reading a ini-file from a specified path or if a specified file in the EXEs directory exists, from that one. However, for NSIS I only know the Eclipse-PlugIn as GUI.--http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.phphttp://www.istool.orghttp://nsis.sf.nethttp://eclipsensis.sf.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjoyce1980 Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 I'm trying to do a SMS Zero Touch Install, and for this i need software apps to be installed silently. I would prefer MSI's but if is possible to do it with EXE's then thats just as good.The apps i'm installing are in-house software which a custom EXE file was created. I dont mind creating these again if i can install the software silently.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmarable Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 SMS can run anything, not just MSIs. The silent installation options with other EXEs will work with SMS as the deployment tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staples Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 Just use Adminstudio if you have SMS...http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...dminstudio.mspxI use the zero footprint repackager...http://support.installshield.com/kb/view.a...ticleid=Q108601 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjoyce1980 Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 found a nice link app called CreateInstall. it does what i want it to do. you can find it here www.createinstall.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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