ActivInspire Main resource pack deployment

[ITGuyNW]

Hi all,

 

I have successfully deployed ActivInspire via PDQ Deploy, however does anyone know how to deploy the Resource pack (the one you import through ActivInspire) from the website? It's in a funny .AS4A format.

 

I thought I'd try and be clever by unzipping it and leaving it on a share, but it requires a password.

 

Is there a way of installing it alongside the main install?

 

Thanks

Edited February 12, 2021 by ITGuyNW

[DaveTheTech]

Part of the initial setup is to extract those files, if you want to.You can then put those on a share and point AI to it - there's a field for it in the admin.ini

 

Just found their admin guide: 1808 | Promethean Support (prometheanworld.com)

If you have already deployed AI, you should be able to edit the file on each workstation.

Edited February 12, 2021 by DaveTheTech

[adamkirkz]

Hi

You can download the MSI version of the resource pack from here:

https://inspire.activsoftware.co.uk/resource_pack/ActivInspireMainRes_ENU.msi

 

This is direct from article 1406:

https://support.prometheanworld.com/article/1406/

 

The main resource pack is separate to the core resource pack that is part of the network installation and contains more additional content. It's been recently updated so that it's removed any of the old Flash content due to this being unsupported and ActivInspire 2.21 has addressed this too.

 

I hope this helps

[woodham]

to save me reinventing the wheel care to share your pdq package ?

[whiteb]

to save me reinventing the wheel care to share your pdq package ?

 

A year later, but I was in the process of updating our ActivInspire deployment package.

 

We previously used PDQ Deploy and didn't have too much trouble creating and deploying the package. We now use PDQ Connect (web-based + agent-based) and it's a little different.

 

ActivInspire.msi needs a host of different files and folders in order to install successfully. I was running into issues uploading everything to PDQ Connect (hit the file limit, etc). The only way I got it to work with PDQ Connect was to copy everything to the target computer (zipped), unzip, run .msi, then clean everything up.

 

Current PDQ Connect package looks like:

 

1. Create C:\Temp\ActivInspire if it doesn't exist:

 

# Define the path$path = "C:\Temp\ActivInspire"# Check if the directory existsif (-Not (Test-Path -Path $path)) {    # Create the directory if it doesn't exist    New-Item -Path $path -ItemType Directory    Write-Output "Directory $path created."} else {    Write-Output "Directory $path already exists."}

 

2. Copy ActivInspire.zip to C:\Temp\ActivInspire

 

 

 

3. Install ActivInspire and clean up C:\Temp\ActivInspire folder

 

 

# Define the paths


$zipPath = "C:\Temp\ActivInspire\ActivInspire.zip"$extractPath = "C:\Temp\ActivInspire"$nestedFolderPath = "C:\Temp\ActivInspire\ActivInspire"$msiPath = "$nestedFolderPath\ActivInspire.msi"  # Updated to reflect the additional folder created# Function to clean up the directoryfunction Clean-Up {    param (        [string]$path    )    if (Test-Path -Path $path) {        try {            Remove-Item -Path $path -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction Stop            Write-Output "$path successfully removed."        } catch {            Write-Output "Failed to remove $path. Error: $_"        }    } else {        Write-Output "$path does not exist."    }}# Check if the zip file existsif (Test-Path -Path $zipPath) {    # Unzip the file    Write-Output "Extracting $zipPath to $extractPath"    Add-Type -AssemblyName System.IO.Compression.FileSystem    [system.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory($zipPath, $extractPath)        # Check if the MSI file exists    if (Test-Path -Path $msiPath) {        # Run the MSI installer        Write-Output "Installing ActivInspire from $msiPath"        Start-Process msiexec.exe -ArgumentList "/i `"$msiPath`" /quiet /norestart" -NoNewWindow -Wait                # Check if the installation was successful        if ($LASTEXITCODE -eq 0) {            Write-Output "ActivInspire installed successfully."            # Clean up the directory            Write-Output "Removing $extractPath"            Clean-Up -path $extractPath        } else {            Write-Output "Installation failed with exit code $LASTEXITCODE."        }    } else {        Write-Output "MSI file $msiPath not found after extraction."    }} else {    Write-Output "Zip file $zipPath not found."}# Ensure cleanup in case of unexpected failuresClean-Up -path $extractPath

 

 

 

ActivInspire.zip is everything it creates when you run the .exe and tell it to do the network install. Then, using 7zip, zip it up with maximum compression.

 

 

 

Sorry the formatting of the powershell is horrendous. It won't let me do blocks of code.

Edited July 19, 2024 by whiteb