Deploy iTunes

[enjay]

Anyone know of a way to deploy iTunes across the network? We'd like it on some of our computers, but I don't fancy running local installs on them all.

[enjay]

Ignore that - I've found it! Tried slightly different search terms in Google and got there...

[ste1988]

I installed on a few locally, but did manage to setup just a single shared library, so all staff can add music to just one location. Pretty good, beats any other of the players for managing music.

[enjay]

Not actually trying to manage music (and risks of illegal copies would put me off going down that road, too); this is about a) iTunes-U and b) syncing the Bursar's corporate iPhone (no choice over that, he came with it and won't give it up).

[soveryapt]

Ignore that - I've found it! Tried slightly different search terms in Google and got there...

 

Care to share? I'm moving to a deployed software method instead of a bloat image method this summer (fingers crossed) and iTunes is something we need across site for iPad management and what not.

[enjay]

http://help.apple.com/iosdeployment-itunes/?lang=en#app3cc9f31f

 

You need QuickTime and Apple Application Support on first. QuickTime needs a bit of per-user config if you want to disable auto-update, etc, but someone recently posted instructions for that on RM Communities, so I'm working through those now...

Edited May 18, 2012 by enjay

[nicholab]

You can use 7-zip to extract the msi's from the installer. You do end up with 4 MSI's! for 32 bit and 64bit!

[mavhc]

It's a pain, you have to fix the MSI languages every updates. Now iOS 5 is out I haven't bothered, do pretty much everything on the devices.

[enjay]

It's a pain, you have to fix the MSI languages every updates.

Not planning on updating it all that often.

 

Now iOS 5 is out I haven't bothered, do pretty much everything on the devices.

The Bursar wants it so that he can sync and backup his phone. Hang on - isn't it doing that to the cloud already though?

[TimJing]

This is what I use for iTunes 10.6

 

rem Install

 

msiexec /i"\\servername\AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi" /quiet /norestart

msiexec /i"\\servername\AppleApplicationSupport.msi" /quiet /norestart

msiexec /i"\\servername\Bonjour.msi" /quiet /passive

msiexec /i"\\fservername\iTunes.msi" DESKTOP_SHORTCUTS=0 MEDIA_DEFAULTS=0 SCHEDULE_ASUW=0 REENABLEAUTORUN=0 OUTLOOK_LOAD_BEHAVIOR=0 DONT_AUTO_SYNC_IPODS=1 /passive /norestart

regedit /s "\\servername\update.reg"

 

 

 

This is whats in the reg file:

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Apple Computer, Inc.\iTunes\Parental Controls\Default]

"AdminFlags"=dword:00000101