Software Deployment

CHOOSE NEVER REBOOT IN ADMINISTRATIVE OPTION. THIS IS AVAILABLE IN INSTALLATION EXPERT (WISE PACKAGE STUDIO 5).

GIZ

Thanks GIZ

MDAC Setup does not come as an MSI but as a Microsoft Setup.
The problem is not just how to disable the reboot. The installation does some finishing tasks after the reboot (which need administrative rights) so how to get the installation finished without a reboot. (If possible, I guess the reboot is need for file replacement...)

Hej rpfenninger,

Check this site from Microsoft.

It says;


If you need to prevent the MDAC setup from restarting the workstation, use this command:

mdac_typ /Q:A /C:"dasetup /Q /N"






http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mdacsdk/htm/wphistory_redistributemdac.asp


Cheers,
Priapus

Most installations write their post reboot task in some exe that should be listed in the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce).

If you can find out what it runs then you can proactively run that before the reboot. Alternatively, you may be able to set a scheduled task to kick it off when the system starts up. I use schtasks.exe which ships with Windows XP to automate setting scheduled task to do a lot of admin rights stuff at startup. Once the task is complete, depending on how it's setup, you can delete the task_name.job file so that it doesn't run again. Here is a link for getting schtasks.exe to run under Win2K. Of course, startup scripts in AD could work as well.

This might not be an ideal solution but it might get you started down the right track.

Hope this helps.

Hi Priapus

Thanks you very much for this valuable information!
It seems that there is no easy way out of this issue as the original Microsoft documentation says the following (regarding the Silent Setup switch):
Note that this does not eliminate the potential need to restart the workstation

What a pain in the a**

Thanks anyway