Lego Mindstorms installation

[Novalee]

So this is on my desk. Needs deploying to a couple of suites.

 

But I can't fathom it. I've done a bit of 'Edugeeking' and found people saying to use SCCM? But I've not working in IT long and I'm not really sure what to do. Would anyone be able to help me out please?

 

Thank you!!

[DarrenM]

Best place to look for installation advise is IT Ninja

 

IT Pro Tips for LEGO MINDSTORMS Edu NXT Software 2 | ITNinja

Q&A: Lego Mindstorms NXT 1.1 Education | ITNinja

 

We are using a batch file like this.

 

LME-EV3-WIN32-ENGB-01-01-full-setup /q /AcceptLicenses yes /r:n

LME-EV3-DEP-WIN32-ENGB-01-00-full-setup /q /AcceptLicenses yes /r:n

 

Hope this helps.

Edited July 22, 2015 by DarrenM

[medarta17]

IT Ninja is a decent place to find information, it's related to the Dell KACE software, which is a watered down version of SCCM. SCCM is a wonderful tool that can be used for imaging machines, power management, machine inventory, usage reports, and software deployment. It's well worth looking into. However if you haven't messed with it before it can be a bit daunting to set up as it requires setting up several admin utility accounts and groups via active directory. Installing the SCCM schema (found with the SCCM software) on the Schema master AD server, and installing an instance of SQL server and syncing it all in with SCCM and AD.

 

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Here is a simple guide to installing SCCM and SQL

 

There may be an easier way however. I can't remember if mindstorm is a .MSI or a .EXE. If it is a .MSI file those can be deployed really easily through group policy to various OU's in your LDAP Active Directory. Hope that helps!

[DalekSec]

Sorry to revive this thread, trying to deploy Lego Mindstorms Education EV3 1.4.2 and keep running into problems. I've got it as an application in SCCM, script install and as "setup.exe /q /AcceptLicenses yes" but keeps coming up saying it's failing to verify the install or cmd line. How did you end up doing it in the end?

[Boredguy]

We use a cmd script to install it via SCCM and it has the command line of LME-EV3_Full-setup_1.3.0_en-GB_WIN32.exe /q /AcceptLicenses yes /r:n

[DalekSec]

We use a cmd script to install it via SCCM and it has the command line of LME-EV3_Full-setup_1.3.0_en-GB_WIN32.exe /q /AcceptLicenses yes /r:n

 

Ahh right, i extracted the orginally exe... i'll give it a go with the original one

[Boredguy]

we also have our script (well DJ's script) that also checks if it's already installed and installs the space module as well. so far it's not given us an error on install

[DalekSec]

Nope still getting same error :/

[ColinP]

get the free version of pdq deploy

[Oaktech]

https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/mindstorms-ev3/network-installation-guide

 

I'm doing a SCCM custom install with the following command: setup.exe LegoEV3SpecFile1 /r:n /q /AcceptLicenses yes

[3s-gtech]

I've just pushed it out to a suite. Was one of the easiest deployments I've done, all in about ten minutes. Tested them and working. Same as above code, but no SCCM here; this is just a startup script.

@echo off IF EXIST "C:\Program Files (x86)\LEGO Software" GOTO END \\server\share\LME\LME-EV3_Full-setup_142_en-GB_WIN32.exe /q /AcceptLicenses yes /r:n :END