Promethean ActivInspire Unattended Driver Install

[AJT1]

Does anyone know how to create an unattended install of the activinspire activ board driver?

[AJT1]

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[Jobos]

I use this in a batch file.

Echo.
TITLE Installing Driver...
echo.
R:\Inspire\Driver\Activdriver.msi /quiet /passive /norestart
echo.

[cjohnsonuk]

I've tried this.
I downloaded Activdriver_x32_v5.1.2.7_setup.exe today.
ran the program and copied the files from

C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Temp\{740A5A30-48DA-460D-BE55-6412D0F28A2B}\

to a network share

Directory of X:\ActivBoardDrivers\Extract

22/09/2009  12:20    <DIR>          .
22/09/2009  12:20    <DIR>          ..
22/09/2009  12:16            12,014 0x0401.ini
22/09/2009  12:16             6,692 0x0404.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            14,582 0x0406.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            15,904 0x0407.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            13,660 0x0409.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            15,750 0x040a.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            14,184 0x040b.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            16,132 0x040c.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            11,696 0x040d.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            15,492 0x0410.ini
22/09/2009  12:16             8,848 0x0412.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            15,292 0x0413.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            14,296 0x0414.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            14,640 0x0416.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            14,542 0x0419.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            13,840 0x041d.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            14,220 0x041f.ini
22/09/2009  12:16             6,776 0x0804.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            13,660 0x0809.ini
22/09/2009  12:16            15,276 0x0816.ini
22/09/2009  12:16             3,584 2057.MST
22/09/2009  12:16        12,233,216 Activdriver.msi
22/09/2009  12:16             2,961 Setup.INI
22/09/2009  12:16             4,768 _ISMSIDEL.INI
              24 File(s)     12,512,025 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  171,361,792,000 bytes free

and double clicked the msi (as a user with local admin rights) at which point I get the message

The installation package could not be opened. Verify it exists.

So I mapped a drive to see if it needs a drive letter mapping but got the same.

I've got about 80 to do so want to avoid doing it manually if at all possible.

Running Activdriver_x32_v5.1.2.7_setup.exe /?
Gives a list of options one of which /S says its silent, but guess what. On my XP pro machine its not!

Help! (please)

ChrisJ

[ricki]

Download active inspire from here. Run the install and it will allow you to create a network install. You can choose which bits you want. Pick the driver only and put it into the share that you want. Now deploy with group policy

Richard

[ICTSM]

You can seperate the installs by first running the install. Once you get the first dialogue box up, you can navigate to the temp directory of your docs and settings and extract the bits you want.

[Michael]

When I last installed ActivDriver 4.x it puts a registry entry within:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run

By deleting the entry it installs here, it'll stop the ActivDriver periodically informing users to clean their projector!

[sahmeepee]

When I last installed ActivDriver 4.x it puts a registry entry within:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run

By deleting the entry it installs here, it'll stop the ActivDriver periodically informing users to clean their projector!

There is also a program called nofilt.exe from Promethean which does the same thing.

Sadly they have changed the warning in the v5 driver so that nofilt no longer works. I have no idea what Promethean think teachers are going to do with the information presented in the warning! Presumably stand on a chair on casters on top of a desk and try to clean the projector with some Mr Sheen?

[Michael]

Presumably stand on a chair on casters on top of a desk and try to clean the projector with some Mr Sheen?

I know tell me about it. That small registry tweak did get me some bonus points!

[sahmeepee]

Running Activdriver_x32_v5.1.2.7_setup.exe /?
Gives a list of options one of which /S says its silent, but guess what. On my XP pro machine its not!

Help! (please)

ChrisJ

If anyone is still trying to do this manually for any reason, the silent switch is actually "/s /v/qn" (note the single space as I think the spacing might matter). Full commandline is therefore:

Activdriver_x32_v5.1.2.7_setup.exe /s /v/qn

[TRobinson]

In ActivDriver v5.1.2.7 you have the option to turn off the projector warning through ActivManager - select the ActivManager icon on the system tray and choose "Control Panel" next select the Projector tab and you will see the filter tick box.

[Theblacksheep]

msiexec /i "Activdriver\Activdriver x32\Activdriver.msi" /qn
msiexec.exe /i App\ActivInspire.msi /qn
msiexec /i Res\ENU\ActivInspireCoreRes.msi /qn