[Fusioninventory-user] Incremental Software Deployment and Version Control

[Rob Townley]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Guillaume Rousse
<guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/08/2011 18:00, Alec Taylor wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, I will use either that or [more likely]
>> OCSInventory-ng.
>
> opsi, ocsinventory or fusioninventory are mostly tools for payload
> transfering between machines. To handle software management, you also need a
> packaging system, which means .msi packages, rather than interactive
> installation wizard (.exe). Otherwise, you'll have to handle the logic of
> installation/uninstallation/upgrade manually for each of your software in a
> custom vbs (or any other script language) wrapper, which is painful and
> cumbersome.
>
> And once you have .msi packages, you may as well use AD GPO for deployment,
> which offer all the grouping you need. The only advantages of previous tools
> are better bandwidth usage if you have network limits, and more options for
> installation time (GPO only allows for installation at boot and logon time).

Setup.exe can be made silent or even switchless and silent.  MSI may
be better at uninstalls, but exe installs can be reversed.

GPO only works with Professional Editions of Windows and is not meant
to work across the internet.

If the grouping is not powerful enough, then setting up multiple
instances on the same server seems doable and probably safer.

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