[chef] RE: Re: Re: Re: not so quiet installers

[Florian Hehlen < >]

All,

I think I didn't explain my problem very well. My fault.

I do not need to be able to automate user key strokes. The install runs 
without user input but still wants to take over the screen and display all 
sorts of dialogs. My belief is that this requirement for an interactive 
session is the problem.

I believe that what Kevin outlines below is exactly our problem, although we 
are not running our chef client with the Local System account. We are running 
it through knife winrm (remote invocation).

Cheers,
Florian

-----Original Message-----
From: Moser, Kevin 
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Sent: 15 July 2013 19:23
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Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: not so quiet installers

Does "SendKeys" require an interactive logon?  If so then you need to be 
careful how you set up your scheduled task or service.  We run our 
chef-client as Local System so interactive logon becomes difficult to 
nonexistent.

On 7/15/13 8:56 AM, "Adam Edwards" 
<
 >
 wrote:

>Nathaniel, I've heard about a product that allows you to send
>customizable window messages to installers as a way to "fix" this. I
>can't remember the product name though.
>
>You could probably implement such a solution by hand if needed -- just
>launch the installer from a vbscript / jscript using wshell and then
>use "sendkeys" from wscript/wshell to send input to the installer.
>
>It's very sad, but if you can't control the quality of the installers
>you get, this is the best solution that I can think of.
>
>-Adam
>
>On 7/15/13 6:34 AM, "Nathaniel Eliot" 
><
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> wrote:
>
>>http://www.autohotkey.com/ might fit your need.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>--
>>Nathaniel Eliot
>>T9 Productions
>>
>>
>>On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Florian Hehlen
>><
 >
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Has anyone struggled with windows based installers that cannot run
>>>in a  truly quiet mode. I have one old vb6 installer that just hangs
>>>because it  can¹t run without user input but it needs a GUI based
>>>session! I have looked  at some tools that can convert old installers
>>>to MSIs but with little  success. If it was just the question of
>>>manually converting one installer I  would just bite the bullet and
>>>do it. But we still have a vendor that  delivers such crap!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Flo.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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