Preparing for a manual push-deployment of the Desktop Agent

Before you try a manual push deployment of the Desktop Agent, you should perform the following steps. These steps are not necessary when using the Backup Exec push installer.

To prepare for a manual push-deployment of the Desktop Agent

  1. From the \\<servername>\DLOAgent directory the following files are required:

    • *.mst

    • *.cab

    • DLOBuildInfo.ini

    • *.msi

  2. Run the msiexec command using, as a base, the value in setup.ini from the cmdline key:

    /qf DEFAULTMEDIASERVER="<From setup.INI File>" DLODBINSTANCENAME="<FromSetup.INI File>" LAUNCHCLIENT="1" REQUIREDMDACVERSION="2.8" TRANSFORMS="1033.mst" /l*v "%TEMP%\DLOAgentInstall.log"

    The default values are as follows:

    DEFAULTMEDIASERVER

    Media server name. This value is assigned when DLO is installed and is the name of the computer on which the media server is installed.

    DLODBINSTANCENAME

    Specifies the SQL instance name. Symantec recommends that you do not modify this value.

    LAUNCHCLIENT

    "1"

    REQUIREDMDACVERSION

    "2.8"

    TRANSFORMS

    "1033.mst"

  3. For a silent installation, replace /qf with /qn. To install without user interaction, but with a display of the installation progress, replace /qf with /qb.

  4. If MDAC 2.7 is used, you must replace REQUIREDMDACVERSION="2.8" with REQUIREDMDACVERSION="2.7". No other values are valid. The installation fails if the MDAC version on target system is less than the REQUIREDMDACVERSION value.

  5. TRANSFORMS should be set to one of the mst files, according to the language that the desktop user uses

    :

    1031.mst

    German

    1033.mst

    English

    1034.mst

    Spanish

    1036.mst

    French

    1040.mst

    Italian

    1041.mst

    Japanese

    1042.mst

    Korean

    2052.mst

    Chinese (PRC) (Simplified)

    1028.mst

    Chinese (Traditional)

  6. The specification of the TRANSFORMS property is required, and affects the installer user interface and the start menu shortcuts. The DLO Agent is installed with support for all eight languages, regardless of the transform chosen.

  7. MSI 3 . 1 is required on the target systems. The MSI 3.1 installer is included in: \\<servername>\DLOAgent\WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe