Deploy Customer Software over WAN

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zvolts -> Deploy Customer Software over WAN (10.Jul.2008 4:56:27 PM)
It’s ineffecient and impractical to install larger patches from the NSS server to multiple workstations that are on the other side of a slow WAN link. Is it possible to copy a patch once to a server on the remote LAN and have it installed to all the remote workstations from there? Main office NSS server -----wan link----->LAN B Server ----->PC1, PC2, PC3 I thought I could use the deploycmd.exe, run it on LAN B server to deploy to PC1, 2, 3, etc. But no joy, as the executable has many undocumented dependancies. Thanks.

DrewE -> RE: Deploy Customer Software over WAN (15.Jul.2008 2:38:52 PM)
Are these Microsoft patches being deployed, or custom software? If this is custom software you could copy the package onto a remote share on the remote site, then run a carefully crafted batch file which points the machines to this package.

zvolts -> RE: Deploy Customer Software over WAN (15.Jul.2008 2:59:41 PM)
I arrived at the same conclusion since my initial post. I wrote a seperate batch file to stage patches (non-MS) to the remote servers. I deploy across the WAN another batch file via NSS that copies the patch from the closest server to a local folder on the PC then run the silent install for the patch from the local folder. Works great, once I figured out to deploy the batch file as an administrator with logon as service permissions.

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