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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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    What can't you do with an EXE that you can do with an MSI?

    At one stage a few years ago with the 'classic' Sophos Endpoint client I too yearned for an MSI.  With the advances in Windows server and its associated tools, using EXE's to deploy software is quite easy.

    If you use SCCM, it's super simple.  Application target package using SophosInstall with the silent argument and you're done.

    If you still must use Group Policy to push software out, then use a combination of Startup/Login scripts to pull the software to the client machine and execute it.  Both the SCCM method and the Startup script with examples are covered in the following KB articles.

    https://community.sophos.com/kb/hu-hu/120611

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    When in doubt, Script it out.

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    What can't you do with an EXE that you can do with an MSI?

    At one stage a few years ago with the 'classic' Sophos Endpoint client I too yearned for an MSI.  With the advances in Windows server and its associated tools, using EXE's to deploy software is quite easy.

    If you use SCCM, it's super simple.  Application target package using SophosInstall with the silent argument and you're done.

    If you still must use Group Policy to push software out, then use a combination of Startup/Login scripts to pull the software to the client machine and execute it.  Both the SCCM method and the Startup script with examples are covered in the following KB articles.

    https://community.sophos.com/kb/hu-hu/120611

    ==

    When in doubt, Script it out.

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