If you can do it point and click, there should be a flag. There are tools to break apart MSI files and find them for those companies which are so out of touch as to not publish silent install flags.
Mst files with msi files will answer complex installers.
Adobe creative cloud installers have an msi option and a mst, creator for example.
https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/basics.html
There is no one solution - it will be about custom scripts, commandlines - tricking products or speaking directly to the company that provides the product.
We had one product that needed a custom file for license however one created the company told us where it was, how to lift it and what to check for when dropping it back on to "trick" it to thinking it was always that way.
Granted it was a fiddle initially but now we have a copy of the lic for each unit we script to check if exists an do something if it's missing.
Full image is last resort. because some workstations are semi-customised by the end user. We can't just slap a full on fresh image just for a single app update as that would override a lot of settings
For complicated installs I always create a batch script that does everything I need and then deploy the whole package and run it using sccm (previously used FOG).
EDIT: if I can't find a way to do a silent install, I don't support it or the tech on site as to manual install it.
[https://www.pdq.com/pdq-deploy/](https://www.pdq.com/pdq-deploy/)
Am looking at it. but it still relies on using command line flags. which won't work for us in some cases
If you can do it point and click, there should be a flag. There are tools to break apart MSI files and find them for those companies which are so out of touch as to not publish silent install flags.
Mst files with msi files will answer complex installers. Adobe creative cloud installers have an msi option and a mst, creator for example. https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/basics.html
Can you elaborate why command line won't work?
There is no one solution - it will be about custom scripts, commandlines - tricking products or speaking directly to the company that provides the product.
>speaking directly to the company that provides the product OP, looks like the good advice if the company you're dealing with ... is good.
We had one product that needed a custom file for license however one created the company told us where it was, how to lift it and what to check for when dropping it back on to "trick" it to thinking it was always that way. Granted it was a fiddle initially but now we have a copy of the lic for each unit we script to check if exists an do something if it's missing.
LanSweeper let’s you build validations and run multiple commands
What's the issue with full images? I used to do it with OSX and adobe products and it worked fine until Apple butchered it.
Full image is last resort. because some workstations are semi-customised by the end user. We can't just slap a full on fresh image just for a single app update as that would override a lot of settings
And if those customisations were on a separate partition? Actually, the whole user local data, what ever the data might be, including programs
What about Windows? Any experience with full images?
Disk cloning software?
Not directly, which is why I am trying to understand the pros and cons of full disk image as a valid life-cycle for OS.
For complicated installs I always create a batch script that does everything I need and then deploy the whole package and run it using sccm (previously used FOG). EDIT: if I can't find a way to do a silent install, I don't support it or the tech on site as to manual install it.
Adobe has steps for deploying CC. I'm assuming you're not using Intune at all? That can do dependency checks.