MSI creation packages for small budget?

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Ahah...

 

ok... starting to get somewhere here..

 

Speaking the cricksoftware tech bod I got this little nugget.

 

Replace the text to speech files with do nothing EXE files...

 

Run the workstation setup.exe with the silent switch which is a /s (edited as the tech gave me the wrong info!) and that should work silently and then you can install the msttsa22L and SPCHAPI files seperately using their own /Q quiet switches.

 

Still early days but useful info all round

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ok... after all that I think I've got a reasonably good solution here.

 

Basically you rename your MSSpeech exe files to something appended with -orig.exe.

 

Then use SciTE to create a little AutoIT script that calls each of the renamed files in turn using the /Q switch to shut them up.

 

compile these AutoIT scripts to exe's that are the same as the originals were before (ie: SPCHAPI.exe and msttsa22L.exe) and make sure they're in the same place as the originals.

 

After than you just create a wrapper MSI for the Workstation Installer with the /s switch to make that silent too and bobs your aunties live in lover..

 

 

Still have to test this on a GPO install but it works pretty quietly so far...

 

 

There's a few other things to watch out for "filepath.dat" but I might as well pop all that lot into a Wiki document so i'll not repeat it all here.

 

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[ajbritton]

Serious Deja Vu! You're nearly there by the sounds of it. I found that sometimes the silent switches don't quite work though and needed an adhoc function in my AutoIt script to watch for file overwrite confirmations and automatically hit OK/YES.

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Serious Deja Vu! You're nearly there by the sounds of it. I found that sometimes the silent switches don't quite work though and needed an adhoc function in my AutoIt script to watch for file overwrite confirmations and automatically hit OK/YES.

I can imagine... I think the tech at Cricksoft had your old call log when he was trying to remember what to do

 

I'll probably refine that script a little to do as you said, ie: look out for overwrites, etc.. but so far it seems to work and as far as my primary install on fresh machines go it's a winner

 

If you have the old scripts though I'd sure be interested in seeing how you did it