With this predefined Action
you can easily deploy the most common Microsoft
updates by specifying the path to the package or install program.
RemoteExec will then try to find
out the type of update and automatically
configures the arguments to launch the installation silently.
For system hotfixes RemoteExec
will try to find out the name, the target Operating
System and the Service pack
number (by parsing the package name). The information will be used if
the Only if needed option is
selected to install the hotfix
only on computers needing it.
List of supported updates
System update, Internet Explorer update, .NET update, MDAC/MSXML update,
DirectX
update, MediaPlayer
update, SQL Server update, Java Virtual Machine, MS Office update, .NET
framework, MDAC, Windows Installer, Windows update agent, Jet 4 engine.
Other Microsoft updates should work even if we haven't tested them. If you find examples that do not work, we invite you to send them to us and we will try to support them.
If a hotfix is not identified, RemoteExec will display Unidentified hotfix as update type. In this case the silent installation is not guarantee. If the executable is even not detected as a hotfix RemoteExec will display Unknown name and you will probably need to find by yourself the needed silent switches and use the File execution Action to deploy the update.