State driven software installation for windows NT

  • Authors:
  • Martin Sjölin

  • Affiliations:
  • Warburg Dillon Read (WDR), Zürich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • LISA-NT'99 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Large Installation System Administration of Windows NT - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We have implemented a state driven installation mechanism to simplify the installation of software under Windows NT. We have a "central configuration database" which defines the target the state of the machines, e.g. a declarative definition instead of an operational definition. We describe the procedure used to install the packages and some related issues concerning software delivery: software configuration: and the the actual software installation for workstations components and user components. Partial details of our implementation of System V packaging is included in the Appendix.