Vince’s Tech Tips - EXE to MSI Converter, Deploy Software at Login

Vince Meek, one of our professional Network Engineers here at Alliance Technologies, offers some friendly tech tips to help your IT Department and general users alike.

Free tool from QwertyLabs - EXE to MSI Converter

QwertyLabs has released a free tool to quickly convert .exe setup applications with switches to msi packages. If an application comes without a .msi file, you cannot deploy it by using GPO. However, you can publish it by converting the msi package with the Exe to Msi Converter.

This tool builds a setup executable in to an msi package which can be used for deployment on multiple machines via Active Directory.

System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Windows Server

To download the tool, go here: http://www.qwertylab.com/FreeTools.aspx

Deploy Software At Login

By adding one command to your user’s login file and running the below batch file, you can install many applications when users login.

The proper command is: start /d\\Server\Path filename.bat

Microsoft’s reference can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/start.mspx?mfr=true