I am trying to write a script that can be ran on a client system to install an application from software center. I found this and modified it to run on a local machine. https://timmyit.com/2016/08/08/sccm-and-powershell-force-installuninstall-of-available-software-in-software-center-through-cimwmi-on-a-remote-client/
The problem is that in root/ccm/clientSDK:CCM_Application only gets populated with software that has been installed, as far as I can tell anyway. Is there a method that I can call to search the SCCM Catalog for the application I need? I have searched for an answer to this for a couple days now. The server is managed by a different team in the company so I only have access to client side. I am still new to both SCCM and Powershell.
I believe the short answer is No, see below link to a similar question.
CCM_Application User available software missing
Software deployed to Software Centre or to an "All Users" collection is not searchable via the sdk classes
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Title: Automate the google chrome update through scripting for every logon using powershell.
Anyone wants to take a shot at writing the code? If not maybe guide me towards it. I have little experience.
I need google chrome to update the moment the user logs on through a script that I can push to multiple computers at the same time.
Thanks in advance! -Albert
Automagic updates (installs) can be made, but depend upon a number of factors
1) Your level of access
2) Desired level of control over version management
3) Access to network storage resources
If you could explain your environment a bit (better), we might be better able to assist in your endeavors.
I do this sort of thing all the time, but using enterprise tools such as Group Policy, SCCM, etc.
Answer these:
What is the command string to silently UNINSTALL any given version of Chrome?
What is the command string to silently INSTALL any given version of Chrome?
Do you have an .msi installer to use for group policy or SCCM-initiated installs?
Do you have an enterprise configuration management service available for use?
Do you have a domain environment? Access to group policy?
Point being, what have you done to get where you want to be?
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I've been tasked with setting up some VMs. I've been given some admin details but no further guidance. The server is a fresh install.
My problem is that I'm on Linux/OSX and don't want to run Windows aside from setting up after which I hope to be able to manage things through the web client.
I think there is an ESXi installation. This would be Version 6. How do I set up the web client?
I've installed vSphere Client on a local Windows VM.. not sure what to do with it though.
The documentation is pretty awful and there hasn't been much useful info on the net. I'm really stuck as I didn't set these up and haven't used servers like this before, so I have no context or understanding of the VMWare ecosystem beyond using a virtual machine locally! (even then I've preferred Virtualbox)
Any advice would be amazing
p.s accessing https://[ipaddress]/vsphere-client does not work. Produces a blank browser page... with no html served as an error
If you have the name of the server on which the VMs are stored, type this into the URL of a web browser then it gives you management options or alternatively use this login screen:
This is a project I've been working on off and on for months and I feel like I'm pretty close, but I just can't seem to get past the final hurdle.
The goal is to develop an organization extension library that contains both internal and 3rd party code that we frequently rely on.
History
As a test project, I started with Apache Poi because that is already in wide use in our environment. I have a plug-in and feature built just from the Poi .jars that allows me to build our current Poi applications as long as I add the plug-in (from my workspace) to my build path. The apps work on the servers because we have already distributed the Poi .jars by manually copying them.
The next step is taking that plug-in and getting it into an updatesite so that all of the servers and developers can synchronize on one version. I found and followed these two excellent blog articles (that I wish existed when I started this project):
http://www.dalsgaard-data.eu/blog/wrap-an-existing-jar-file-into-a-plug-in/
http://www.dalsgaard-data.eu/blog/deploy-an-eclipse-update-site-to-ibm-domino-and-ibm-domino-designer/
With the caveat that the articles are written for Domino 9 and we are running 8.5.3 here, but that only matters in the last (installation) step.
Current
This brings us to the problem. All of the above seems to have worked great up to a point. I can install my feature to my designer client from the eclipse update site and it works great. However, the install is failing when I import that into our updatesite.nsf database. This means that while the developers can all install from the updatesite if I put it on a network drive, that doesn't deploy updates to our servers.
The problem is that when I try to install from the .nsf update site, the Eclipse Updater just hangs. I've let it go for well over an hour and eventually Notes becomes completely unresponsive.
So the question is, is there anything I might have done wrong, either in the development of the plug-in or server configuration that might be causing this issue?
Additional Info
I'm looking at the osgi console and that is largely unhelpful. I am getting the following errors as I'm trying to install: SEVERE Could not access digest on the site: no protocol: 0/5B004DDD5E38F3FF85257CAF004C72C7/$file/digest.zip ::class.method=unknown ::thread=Worker-7 ::loggername=org.eclipse.update.core
I could generate dumps if that would be useful.
Security is also locked down fairly tight here. It could be a security issue - is there a way to troubleshoot that? Once I get to the hang I'm just stuck guessing.
This has been edited for clarity and to update information
I know that this is post is over 5 years ago but...
for those that find this and are trying to resolve the error
SEVERE Could not access digest on the site: no protocol: "
is due to the update site project not having the URL of the Domino updatesite.nsf not being added to the Archives tab of the site.xml.
I found the updatesite.nsf also needs to be anonymously accessible as no credentials are prompted/passed through to the Domino server hosting the updatesite.nsf database (at least from DDE), YMMV from eclipse. So if Anonymous connections are blocked on the Domino server you will be out of luck.
To develop a plug-in you really want to have 3 projects:
the plug-in
the feature
the update site
Of course a feature can contain more than one plug-in (and probably should) and a update site can contain more than one feature (and probably should). Once you have an update site project it features a handy button "build all" that makes sure plug-in, feature and update-site get compiled in one go. And that button is what you really want.
You can point using a setting in your Domino Designer (or local Domino server) to the feature directory. Add a plain text .link file to framework/rcp/eclipse/links, that contains the path to your install site - it then picks up the features and plug-ins from there. After a build you would need to restart designer/server to activate the updated feature.
For the Domino server the approach using an updatesite.nsf and the respective notes.ini setting makes the most sense (to me). http restart required. Lazy people script the whole thing.
I still don't have a great answer for this, but I believe the issue is related to the environment here. I don't have the authority to change the environment, even if I were able to conclusively demonstrate it is the cause of this problem, so it is a moot point. All I can say is that at least one administrator computer had no issue installing from the update site.
For me, the solution for distributing the update site is to put it on a network drive and have everyone install it from there. The server has no problem using it from the updatesite.nsf.
I've successfully created a VSTO Add-In for Outlook 2007 in VS2010, yay! Now comes the deployment part, which seems to be even more arcane.
I need to deploy this Add-In on my company's server, which is running Windows Server Standard, SP2. It has MS Office 2007 on it, and the clients talk to a different Exchange server. The company has thin clients that all Remote-Desktop the Server to access their Outlook.
What would be the procedure for this? There's various articles that Google pulls up on deploying Office Add-Ins, all of which are a tad over my head. My impression is that there are many different ways to install Add-Ins, based on what Office version you have, what VS version you have, what OS you are installing it on, if you want to install for a single user or all users on the server, and various other circumstances. I can't get a clear picture of what to do. The fact that I'm installing on a system with a server/thin-client arrangement possibly complicates things.
Anyway, I can spend the next few days researching how registry keys work and how they affect Add-Ins, learning how to make .MSI packages, exactly how certificates work and if I need one to publish or if I can deploy into the Program Files directory, or if that option in the .NET 4.0 framework even applies to a VSTO Add-In, etc., etc., etc.
There's just a lot of variables and I would appreciate advice that pertains to my exact scenario. Or, barring that, exactly what subjects I need to study up on to know what to do, and links to them.
Edit: I need to deploy to 1 user on the server first, for testing, and then eventually all or most of the users, so help for singular and broad deployment would be appreciated.
The following articles helped me a lot when I first tried to deploy an add-in. Unfortunately my scenario did not included server/thin-clients, I used the MSI only for per-user installations, so I cannot say for sure what will be the complicates to rise from the side.
Here is the article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsto/ff937654.aspx
There you should find all the info required for registry location, files, manifests, etc...
I work in a service organization where users of our internal tools are often disconnected. It is often the case that service engineers on service assignments are "stranded" with an outdated version of some internal tool.
These tools are deployed using ClickOnce publish VS2010 .NET4 . If the users run all their apps while still connected to corporate network, they would get a notification that a new version was available. As the number of various tools increase, the chance increases that some app is not updated.
Is it possible to automate this process, by a batch file or something?
So that the engineers just need to run one file when connected to corporate nw to get all the newest versions of their installed tools?
Added:
An easier way of saying it would be to have "something like Windows update" operating on corporate net, but for internal ClickOnce apps.
Very interesting question. I can't think of a quick way to do this, but it's definitely possible.
I would create another ClickOnce app whose job is to update the other ClickOnce apps. This app needs the url of each app's .application file. If all engineers are supposed to have all apps, that's easy. If not, maybe you could look through their start menu and find all the ClickOnce Application Reference files. Those files contain the url.
Next, just launch the url and pass a query string argument...
http://server/MyApp/MyApp.application?UpdateOnly=true
In the startup of your applications, you can check the query string argument and shut down the app if it's run with UpdateOnly=true.
One side note. If you set the minimum required version of each of your apps to the latest version, users won't get prompted with the new version dialog. Seems like you'd want to do that or the user would still have to pay attention and do a lot of clicking.