Airserver Deployment

[thebyronic]

Hi All,

 

Now this one may have been asked before, but I couldn't find it from searching.

 

The Secondary school I work for is looking at Airserver for our staff iPads.

I've finally got it working with our terrible wireless network and it connects and mirrors fine.

 

The problem I've got is that, how do you push out Airserver and have the package name the computer according to the Computer name and set a password?

We will be deploying this on our current CC4 network but will eventually have it running on our Vanilla network (once we have moved across to it)

 

Or, do I have to go around manually installing it to all teaching machines? :/

 

Thanks in advance!

[Sagima]

I don't know cc4 but the argument is ALLOWNAMING=DISABLE to use the computer name and to use a password it is PASSWORDTYPE=PASSWORD with the password set in the msi in the password field

 

My install string in my batch file is

msiexec.exe /q ALLUSERS=2 /m MSIRYCGI /i AirServerx86.msi PIDKEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX SINGLE_USER_MODE=DISABLE AUTOSTART=DISABLE ALLOWNAMING=DISABLE CHECKFORUPDATES=DISABLE PASSWORD=PASSCODE

 

if that helps

[thebyronic]

Aha Thanks!

At least I know it is doable!

Also I have been wondering, in terms of license keys, If we were to buy say 50 licenses, would they provide us with 1 key for 50 (like most others) or will they provide me with 50 separate keys?

I only ask as I emailed their support regarding site licenses, and they said they don't offer site licenses, only bulk purchasing... :/

[Sagima]

One key that works with as many licences as you have purchased. You get a link to a webpage that lists all the active ones. When you uninstall it should deactivate it on the list thus freeing a licence but if it doesn't or you lose one through hardware/software failure you can manually release the licence with a mouse click on the webpage.

[thebyronic]

Oh I see.

I knew it was all done through a webpage with a link in an email but wasn't sure of the amount of keys .. im glad to hear that it is just the 1

Thanks for your help!

[jtotheb]

Airserver does have a reasonable deployment guide, but for whatever reason they don't (or didn't when I needed it) make it freely available on their site. If you drop their support a line they'll email it to you and it has all the various deployment options and switches for the MSI deployment.

[thebyronic]

Yea i did see on one of their support forums and gave them an email... they did indeed send me a deployment guide!

[thebyronic]

Right, need help with this again!

Bought 10 licenses, packaged up using an mst and it installs fine. But does not activate!

When you run Airserver the first thing it opens is the Activation box! Even though I have put in the PIDKEY in the mst!

 

I've checked the proxy and the address activation.airserver.com isnt blocked. (White-listed anyway)

 

I have even used Orca to edit the MSI directly and put the PIDKEY directly in! And still no luck!

Even when I run the install manually, during install, the Serial Key box is filled in with the key i added to the MSI and STILL no luck!!

 

But! When I put the key into the activation box (after install) it works! But that obviously defeats the point of a silent install!

 

Help Please!

[thebyronic]

Ok, this is weird!

Just tried an older version 3.0.12 and it worked :/

[PureMatt]

I'm experiencing the same issue with version 4.0.31, did you find a resolution for this? We've had AirServer for a number of years now and this has never been an issue with the other releases.

 

Cheers.

[thebyronic]

If I'm honest, No.

As we only have 10 licenses, I have been putting them on manually as and when requested.

If the school were to buy more, I'd look at attempting this again.

Sorry I couldn't help.

[PureMatt]

I think we may have found a solution.

 

I found if I ran the install twice, it would activate the licence consistently on the second install.

 

Using Orca I altered the 'InstallExecuteSequence' and moved the 'CaGetDataForActivateAirServer' and 'CaActivateAirServer' actions to the end of the sequence (well, just before the 'InstallFinalize' action)

 

This seemed to do the trick! It was as if it was trying to activate the licence too early in the sequence, therefore running it for a second time worked as it had already gone through the sequence once.

 

Hope that works for you too!

 

Cheers

[CamelMan]

I cant remember off hand but I think I used APP Deploy to build an MSI with the license built in for here (non CC4 now- so I cant test for you!)

[localzuk]

I would suggest this is a bug. We're on 4.0.23.0 here and it activates on install. Have you contacted support to report it?

[PureMatt]

I did contact them while I had the problem and didn't know what was causing it, but they just ignored my support ticket as per usual.

 

Their support is useless in my experience. I've emailed them 4 or 5 times over the last few months with a few different issues (mainly about miracast from surface 3 to windows 10 not working) and I've only heard back from them maybe once. The most annoying part is you don't get a copy of your support ticket; so if they ignore it you have no record of it ever being sent. You therefore have to type out the entire thing again explaining your problems before sending it off to be ignored a second time! >.<

[datar_]

My install string in my batch file is

msiexec.exe /q ALLUSERS=2 /m MSIRYCGI /i AirServerx86.msi PIDKEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX SINGLE_USER_MODE=DISABLE AUTOSTART=DISABLE ALLOWNAMING=DISABLE CHECKFORUPDATES=DISABLE PASSWORD=PASSCODE

 

Sorry to bring up such an old post but I wanted to add my 2 pence to this

 

If you use something like Orca MSI you can actually use these arguments as properties when you modify the MSI.

 

i.e. adding the PIDKEY to their MSI file so that you can just deploy with GPO.

 

I actually added all of the above into the MSI and they all worked a treat ;-)