Given the size of companies I tend to work with, I haven’t had to deal with much of this sort of automation. I know other folks have had luck with Group Policy deployment. Generally speaking, client with offline access is a much larger headache than the client without offline access. Don’t forget that installation is only the first step — you also have to configure the client. I’d be happy to let you guest author an entry when you finish you research.

Thanks,
Phil

I am currently looking to automate client upgrades from 3.0 to 4.0 for the CRM Light Client. I dont see a lot of information on this about. Once I am done though it might be useful to your blog I could send you the details of the package etc.

It seems CRM client is no easy animal to deploy sort of doing it manually for each user having made them a local administrator. Do you know of any info that might help me automate the client upgrade to existing machines?

I’m more than happy to share what I get. At the moment it looks like a removing the old client will be tricky, I am not sure if I need to migrate individual settings (hope not). It does look possible to create a single administrator run package for the new client and then for each user that logs in automate setting the client up for them (so it shows up in outlook etc).

Nice tool but the install and deployment abilities look like a serious issue for mass deployment or upgrade.

Thanks!
Bruce
Scripting IT LTD
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