We are trying to avoid the overhead of using a software management tool and 
the effort of packaging the Firefox install media. That is why we want to 
leverage the feature of the Auto Update/Mozilla Maintenance Service, to force 
users that have not launched Firefox, into updating from our internal update 
server with minimal effort.



V/r,

Fabian Martinez-Mendoza
PEO EIS, NEN, PMW-205
End User Systems Engineer
[email protected]


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  In chel di` si favelave...

> Is there a way to run Auto update/Mozilla Maintenance Service via 
> command-line?

AFAIK, no.

But you can take a different approach, using a software management
tools (SCCM, Puppet, WPKG, ...) to deploy Mozilla updates.

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:51:15 +0000
From: "Martinez-Mendoza, Fabian CTR SPAWAR, PMW 205"
        <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Mozilla Enterprise] Run Mozilla Maintenance Service via
        Command-line
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Hello,

 We are currently using Mozilla Firefox ESR version in our Enterprise and have 
plans of hosting our own Firefox update server so that Auto Update feature in 
Firefox grabs the update from our internal source. However, the Auto Update 
feature only gets triggered when Firefox is launched, what we want to do is to 
force the Auto Update component without launching Firefox. I know that you can 
manually install a MAR file via command-line which uses the updater.exe. But 
what we would like to do is to run the Auto Update check via command-line 
instead. The Auto Update feature, I believe runs the Mozilla Maintenance 
Service that goes out to the update server, reads the update.xml file and 
figures out if there's a new update to install and then installs it. This is 
the logic we are trying to leverage since it is already built-in Firefox.



Is there a way to run Auto update/Mozilla Maintenance Service via command-line?



I found the below wiki, but I can't get the command to work to run the Mozilla 
Maintenance Service.



https://wiki.mozilla.org/Windows_Service_Silent_Update



Anybody trying to do the same thing or have any ideas/suggestions?







V/r,

Fabian Martinez-Mendoza
PEO EIS, NEN, PMW-205
End User Systems Engineer
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>



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