I am trying to turn off the Internet Explorer Splash screen and the Microsoft Outlook splash screens on new network client installs. Also, the test memory at startup, but I see how to do that from the console.
My understanding is that I have to do this via the admin.ini file. In order to get the admin.ini file I had to install the Avast Pro version, customize those settings, then create a silent install file, (which created the admin.ini and tasks.xml files).
When I load these files into my installation package on the ADNM console and push it out to the network client, the program installs, but the services never start. It’s like the client is not managed.
Do I need all the options that are created in the admin.ini and tasks.xml files, or just the ones that control these three features? If so, what lines in the admin.ini file actually control these features?
I just want to be able to install the network client with these three options turned off.
Test Memory at start up = Off
Display Internet Splash screen = Off
Display Exchange Splash screen = Off
Actually, if you open your ADNM console, right-click the Computer Catalog, and go to properties, you can change all different kinds of settings for the clients right there.
If you look in there, there is a Custom Ini settings panel where you can add your config settings.
It would be easier to just deploy a standard package without all the custom ini edits that you did, then use the ADNM console to make changes to the clients afterwards.
Thanks for that. I read the thread and many more and was able to stop the memory test at start on the client machines by using:
[UserInterface]
SplashTestMemory=0
Problem is, I still cannot find the “Section ID” and “Name=Value” settings to turn off the Outlook/Exchange Splash screen and the Script Blocking Splash screen when Internet Explorer opens. Nothing in the threads I read referenced those settings. Perhaps those settings cannot be customized?
I tried the following settings and none of them worked for me. Not sure about the section names at all.
[MSOutlook/Exchange]
SplashScreen=0 —No change on client
SplashScreen=1 —No change on client
ShowSplashScreen=0 —No change on client
ShowSplashScreen=1 —No change on client
[ScriptBlocking]
SplashWindow=0 — No change on client
SplashWindow=1 — No change on client
ShowSplashWindow=0 — No change on client
ShowSplashWindow=1 — No change on client
I have avast home edition at home, and I went into the resident task settings and turned the splash screen off for the outlook plugin (see attached picture). Then, I looked at the avast4.ini file, and I didn’t see any code that specifically turned the splash screen off. I fear that the setting must be saved in some other file. Without knowing more of the inner workings of Avast, I don’t really know what else we can do.
Maybe someone else will be able to shed more light on this for us soon.
Actually, now that I think more about it, the changes aren’t instantaneous on the clients. It works sort of like replication for group policy. If you make a change in the ADNM console, it does take a while for the clients to update themselves.
Your changes such as:
SplashScreen=0
In the MSOutlook/Exchange section could be doing the trick, you just might not be letting enough time pass in order for the change to become effective.
Maybe make the change and give it a few hours before checking to see if it works? Or did you give it enough time already?
OK, I finally found out where to adjust those settings.
In ADNM under Tasks…Client-side tasks…On-Access scanning tasks, you just click the properties of the “Default Resident Task”. From there I was able to turn off the splash screens for both Outlook and Internet Explorer.
After that, I simply created a new .MSI and installed to the client. The “Default Resident Task” from ADNM must get built into the newly created .MSI.
