installing clients manually

Avast Business Avast Distributed Network Manager
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We have AVAST SBS Suite with 10 client licenses. We’ve installed the File Server part on the SBS server as well as ADNM and then to manually install the workstations, I copied the InstPkg to a shared location on the file server. I then went to a Windows 2000 workstation and mapped a drive to that share. Then, I executed the command:

setup.exe /client /createprogress /sfx /sfxstorage . The package folder is on my mapped E:

setup.exe /client /createprogress /sfx /sfxstorage E:

The wizard began but then it finished quickly.

Obviously, I did something wrong. Can anyone assist?

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Hi,

I have installed ADNM several times and I never use this procedure to install clients.

I normaly use a MSI file:

  • Create a Package.
    Create de MSI file.
    Put the MSI file on a shared folder.
    Execute the MSI file on your workstations

This is from the manual:

5.3 Installation with MSI Packages

If you deploy the avast! product line with the help of MSI packages, first you need to make the packages. This is done by creating a deployment task, but choosing the “Generate MSI (don’t deploy anything)” option on the Install page. In this mode, the targets specified on the Computers page are ignored, as no deployment is taking place. Running the task will create the MSI file.
A deployment task can also be instructed to create an MSI file instead of doing the real installation.
With the MSI file in hand, you can either use your favorite software deployment tool (such as Microsoft Systems Management Server or even ActiveDirectory Group Policy) to push the installation to the clients, or use the procedures described earlier in the Manual Installation section.

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How did you install the File Server part? Another administrator decided to install the File Server separately. I then installed ADNM and tried to install the workstations using the manual method. Yesterday, I redid the procedure without the long script but instead just double-clicked the setup.exe file in the InstPkg location. The wizard kicked off and it looked like it was working but finally it stopped and the logs showed it failed. The log indicates that it is looking for the proxy but we do not have a proxy. I also noticed as the wizard started that it asked about the proxy (3 choices) and I just said to “auto detect”. Could that be the problem? If so, what do I do since I do not have a proxy.