I have worked as a packager for the Federal Government which uses SCCM, we at times have extracted .MSI's from Microsoft's packages and wrapped them... it is common to do so...
Some installers come in an executable compressed file where you extract the files to a location and you can use those files in SCCM... I have: myBundle.exe which is only 800kb a Redist folder with all the .exe's and .msi's for the pre requisites and the main installer runs the same as having a 30 meg exe :) Steve -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: December-12-12 4:22 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How do you extract the files from a bundle - answer WiX is free they can always download it. (I really hope no one does that to my bundle, how would they know the logic associated with installing the MSIs.) -----Original Message----- From: Steven Ogilvie [mailto:steven.ogil...@titus.com] Sent: 12 December 2012 20:51 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How do you extract the files from a bundle - answer Clients who use GPO as a measure of releasing to mass desktops :) it can only use .MSI's Personally I would rather use SCCM :) Steve -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: December-12-12 3:45 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How do you extract the files from a bundle - answer Out of interest why would end users ever need this? I just thought it was handy for validating the contents. Neil On 12 Dec 2012, at 20:05, "Steven Ogilvie" <steven.ogil...@titus.com> wrote: > Thanks... > > But at runtime this is moot since users won't have a copy of dark... > > Hopefully the feature request will be acted on, since there is a > command line parameter to do so but it doesn't do anything :( > > I ended up NOT compressing the pre reqs and my installs into the > bundle exe so I have the bundle exe with a Redist directory where the > .Exe's and .Msi's reside in > > Thanks, > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] > Sent: December-12-12 2:54 PM > To: General toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) > Subject: [WiX-users] How do you extract the files from a bundle - > answer > > I might be wrong but I think this has been asked a few times but not answered > (in fact I think there is even a feature request). > > Well after writing the code to do this I discovered it already existed in > "dark": > "%wix%bin\dark" setup.exe -x .\out > > This will extract all the embedded files and user experience data from > setup.exe to the folder "out". > > Hope this is useful. > > Neil > > Neil Sleightholm > X2 Systems Limited > n...@x2systems.com<mailto:n...@x2systems.com> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free > Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant > support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more > value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. 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