.Net MSI Install

[TechSupp]

I need to install Google SketchUp which I have set up and now found It wont install as It requires .Net 4. Two questions,

 

1)

I have downloaded NDP452-KB2901907-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe which from a link on here is the latest to use (its .Net 4.5.2 with updates etc). How do I install this using GPO? (or is there a better msi one I could use?)

 

2)

As I need this to be installed before Sketchup, how do I make sure that happens i.e. .Net gets installed first and not the other way around or do I have to set it up to install .net the when its done, then set up Sketchup to install?

 

Sorry for questions but its Monday and I just cant get my brain to engage yet!

[SHimmer45]

iirc .net comes packaged as an EXE so you should be able to extract it to get the MSI package (run the EXE with /x: )

the priority order of the GPO should handle which package is installed 1st

 

i found this useful when getting my head around deploying .net

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/06/04/10020299.aspx

 

or you could use psexec and a text file of all the computer names to run the .net exe on the machines before rolling out sketchup

Edited September 22, 2014 by SHimmer45

[TechSupp]

Thanks, have extracted the files and there are lots of msi, msu etc as its a kind of roll up. Have tried running the exe with the /q option and it installed OK without prompts (but with a forced reboot) so presume I can just set that up as a GPO to auto install. Anyway to stop it rebooting as that would cause havoc if I install it at logon I presume.

 

edit: just found there is a /norestart option which may possibly work with 4.5.2?

 

or

 

How should I handle this install better?

Edited September 22, 2014 by TechSupp

[SHimmer45]

looking at MS advice it runs off netfx.msi (if you have extracted the .exe) so that MSI id imagine calls the rest of them as it requires them.