Of course, I'm not in a place to know what the plans are that Astaro has.
I did try creating my own MSI wrapper for the executable and found some basic design changes that will have to make for AAA to be truly usable in a mode where it can be used for silent installs in a multi-user business environment. Both the installer and executable are currently coded around a philosophy of one install per user per machine, installed under that users credentials.
Problem #1 being that by default it wants to install itself into a folder in the current users profile. This means that you would need to install it separately for every user on a machine, and the installs would need to be run as those user accounts. The fix is to change the default install directory to [ProgramFiles].
Problem #2 is that it installs the ClientAuth certificate into the user store. Needs to be saved into the computer store.
Problem #3, when run under a different account than it was installed under, it doesn't want to write the correct registry values necessary to that users HKCU hive. This could be solved by moving the registry key functions from the installer into the program executable itself.
It can be done, but some of how the base program works would need to be modified before it would even be worthwhile for an MSI install.
__________________ ACE v8/SCA v9.3
...still have a v5 install disk in a box somewhere.
Converting an EXE to MSI is very difficult to do, (one that actually works anyway) not withstanding the points you make above. ProgramData folder should probably be used as well to make Microsoft happy.
This must be a high priority for corporate customers?
If the AAA could pickup the currently logged in users credentials and pass them automatically to the Astaro box, using an MSI we could roll out using policies, awesome!
Converting an EXE to MSI is very difficult to do, (one that actually works anyway) not withstanding the points you make above. ProgramData folder should probably be used as well to make Microsoft happy.
This must be a high priority for corporate customers?
If the AAA could pickup the currently logged in users credentials and pass them automatically to the Astaro box, using an MSI we could roll out using policies, awesome!
