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Is there a MSI Installer available?

VannT

Hi All,

I'm wondering if there will be a MSI Installer at some point in the near future?  This would be use to push the Sophos Cloud via Group Policy

This would benefit a lot of people I reckon where by we can just deploy the full offline client to end points

Currently the following KB https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/121318 is used to create a full offline installer.  However this is just a exe file and not a MSI File.

Yes we could go through and use third-party tools to convert it from exe to MSI but sometimes these tools are not 100% effective.



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    I know this isn't quite what you're looking for, but I did this with a simple batch script.

    1. create the batch script; here's mine:

    @echo off

    sc query SophosNetworkTrafficRelay | find "does not exist" >nul
    if %errorlevel% equ 0 (goto install) else (goto end)

    :install
    mkdir C:\sophos
    cd C:\sophos
    copy \\share\sophos\CSGInstall.exe C:\sophos\CSGInstall.exe
    CSGInstall.exe -q
    goto end

    :end

    2. Place batch script and CSGInstall.exe into a shared folder with permissions set to allow domain computer to access (the computers themselves)

    3. Set the script as a startup script via GPO

    4. Schedule a reboot via GPO

  • 0 in reply to ShaneHanson

    If you really want an MSI to bootstrap the client, I assume you can quite easily create one using WiX - http://wixtoolset.org/.

    You can embed the EXE in the MSI and have it quietly run the contained exe.

    Some reference material: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/customactions/qtexec.html but it would just author some XML, same it as  example.wxs and run:

    candle example.wxs

    light example.wixobj -ext WixUtilExtension

    This will generate an MSI.

    Hope it offers something to try,

    Regards

    Jak

  • 0 in reply to jak

    Hi Jak & Shane,

    I've managed to find a free tool to wrap the EXE installer inside a MSI.

    It's called MSI Wrapper.  Version 7.1.11.0 (free version) website is http://www.exemsi.com

    Will do some testing and see if it deploys without any issues.

  • 0 in reply to VannT

    do you tried it? works good? any issues?

    hope for some feedback :)

    Sophos Platinum Partner 
    Sophos Certified Architect
    (Ceritfied UTM Architect / Certified XG Architect)

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