| Can anyone
point me to a beginners guide to creating an SMS package? I’ve studied the
help file but it does not really tell me how to get started. I want to
create a single file package for an installation that has 3 CD's and
multiple selections throughout the installation.
Contributed
By: Terry Matthews
An "SMS Package" is a different thing. That's lesson #1
You should look at the examples of IPFs on myITforum to start with. Read the
articles there. Read over the posts in this newsgroup and the forums on
myITforum. Buy Rod Trent’s book on SMS Installer (If that is the tool you
will be using to repackage applications).
Lesson #2, the setups created with SMS Installer do not have to be run with
SMS. SMS and SMS Installer do not rely on each other at all. It is simply a
tool that can be used to create setups just like WISE or InstallShield.
Those two tools are a little more advanced than SMS Installer and you can
use those to edit MSI's which you can't with SMS Installer. You can also use
SMS to distribute setups created with those other tools.
Contributed By:
Cathy Moya [MS]
You can also read Chapter 7, "Creating Software Installation Packages with
SMS Installer" in the Systems Management Server 2003 Operations Guide. To
obtain the Operations Guide, see:
http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/techinfo/productdoc/default.asp
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