Next, specify the following Install and Uninstall Commands. In the next step, add a detection rule that indicates the presence of the application. Specify the following in order. Finally on the Completion page, click Close. Deploy the VMware Workstation application to target device collection. You can first deploy it a test device collection. If that works well, you can deploy it to your computers in production. On the client computer, launch the software center and select the VMware Workstation app.
Click Install. Since the app size is MB it is going to take sometime to download and install. But at the end you should see the app installation status as Installed. Windows is a more manual process. If you browse the package site and browse down in to the latest Windows release you are shown the following note at the time of this blog post the version of VM Tools is You can see three files and two directories.
Unfortunately in Chrome the full file path is cut off for the files. Only by hovering over the link can you see the full file name.
The two folders x64 and x86 contain standalone. Just pick your flavour:. You can see there is an autorun. If not, launch setup. In fact if you look at the file size for the 32 and 64 bit files they match:. Come back for a future blog post where I will show a couple of ways to deploy this way. This will require using silent install deployment options using command line switches. You can get some idea of what is required by calling the installation.
It seems kind of strange that if you do not want to install some component you have to first specify to install everything then remove the component.
PDQ Deploy is very lightweight and priced per admin, and thousands of happy admins use the tool successfully. PolicyPak and PDQ work very nicely together in many areas. You can use these PolicyPak features alongside what you already have or by themselves. The goal of PolicyPak Remote Work Delivery Manager is to copy files from on-prem or web shares and install software after those files are downloaded.
However, PolicyPak Remote Work Delivery Manager works in a different manner than the tools mentioned above, and it is meant for different workloads. Figure 6: Use SMB or web-based shares for your file installation source. One main use case for PolicyPak Remote Work Delivery Manager is to get new software deployed to non-domain-joined machines over the Internet. This is to satisfy the working from home or remote work team and is a perfect fit when PolicyPak customers use it with PolicyPak Cloud as shown in Figure 7.
The following is taken from the BITS documentation here. BITS also handles network interuptions, pausing and automatically resuming transfers, even after a reboot. Because PolicyPak takes advantage of BITS, even if large downloads are interrupted, perhaps due to shutting off a desktop, closing the lid on a laptop, or changing networks from on-prem to home, then BITS will pick up where it left off.
This means you can confidently download very large files and then perform some work on them after the download is completely accomplished and on the target machine.
But if you have modest needs to deploy software and keep it automatically updated, then PolicyPak Remote Work Delivery Manager can provide this for many circumstances using SMB or web-based shares. For instance, to deploy 7Zip the first time, point your source to whatever version you want to get started with.
Then, 7Zip 16 installs on the endpoints as expected as seen in Figure 9. Then, to perform an update and patch of 7Zip 16 to 19 on the underlying share, replace the underlying 7z. PolicyPak will automatically reach out to the source, see that a new version is present, pull down the updated patch, and automatically update. No additional time is needed and nothing needs to be re-deployed to any console. The final result after exchanging 7z. Figure PolicyPak Remote Work Delivery Manager automatically updates software with no re-deployment or user interaction.
That is, it gives you the ability to specify the following: the source and which files to copy, the directory depth including recursive directories , and a myriad of filters size, date, last modified, etc. ZIP file. ZIP file can be automatically downloaded and unpacked for the end user. If the source. ZIP file contents are updated, PolicyPak Remote Work Delivery Manager keeps the destination files automatically updated; no additional policies or interaction are required. PolicyPak Remote Work Delivery Manager is the most effective way for PolicyPak customers to deploy files and software once and keep them updated on Windows 10 machines on and off the corporate network.
PolicyPak Scripts Manager will run a script of your choice.
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