SCCM 2012: Installing Applications with Directory Path

[vfong1982]

Hi,

 

Is there a way to deploy Applications through SCCM 2012 while specifying a specific installation path?

 

Reason being is because I have applications deploying to the Program Files (x86) folder on 64-bit machines, and Program Files on 32-bit machines. Since the environment I work in uses a shared Start Menu amongst 32-bit/64-bit (slowly progressing to 64-bit), program shortcuts break when on 64-bit machines as they point to Program Files

So far I've tried using:

 

msiexec /i "installer.msi" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\MyProgram" /qb

 

This works when you run it on a machine, but it doesn't when you run it under SCCM.

 

Any ideas?

[free780]

How's the start menu redirected?

[vfong1982]

It is redirected using Group Policy.

Adding Program Files (x86) shortcuts alongside the existing shortcuts was causing a lot of confusion with our users.

[Blue_Cookeh]

It's not exactly clean, but when I had this issue I forced them to install into a custom folder at c:\SchoolName-Apps instead.

[free780]

Not sure if you can put a wmi filter on the gpp just for 32 bit PCs.

[clareq]

I redirect the start menu to a folder on the hard drive of the machine. That way only valid shortcuts for that machine are displayed.

[silvestre]

You will need to use Admin Studio or similar software to set directories and create a new MSI.

[mdrabble]

As @free780 mentioned, use a wmi filter on the gpp. I use one and works fine. Just means you have to maintain 2 start menus, one for 64bit and one for 32bit.

[gerardsweeney]

If it's the tweaked Start Menu that's barfing it, but I've run a small script which forces the Shell Folders values for Desktop/Start Menu back to the "factory default".

Then you can either put them back, or just have the PC reboot - presumably the GPO will apply each time.

It could also be that it's looking for "My documents" being mapped to H: for the user account you're using to deploy the software.

You could add a line SUBST H: c:\temp (or something) to create an artificial H: drive for it.

 

Another thing it might be is that for our software deployment server, I've had to add ALLUSERS=1 to the script syntax. Otherwise, it fails with a 1609 error.

 

All of this might be guff, but at least I tried

[BlakeP]

I am deploying the recent released UE-V 1.0.5 Agent to client computers. I saw that the Offline Files Service (CscService) needs to be running before the installation will run. It seems that the Offline Files Service on Windows 8, by default, is set to Automatic (Trigger Start), which means that it’s not running during the deployment. So I am using the sc.exe tool to enable Offline Files from a command line. To enable the Offline Files feature using the sc.exe command, I need thmming Configuration Manager 2012..hmm