Silent patching of CS 5.5

Question

How can I run the updated silently on a scheudle?
I need to install patches on workstations running Deepfreeze at a specific time so that updates are permanent.

Answer 1

ChuckBing wrote:
Sorry, I missed it. Your command string looks ok.
Make sure that you can actually execute the msiexec.exe program from wherever you are trying it. It's located in \windows\system32\ directory. That directory should be listed in the Windows path environment variable. Make sure that the msiexec version is current. 3.1 is ok. Try the command without the trailing log parms.
There are many posts regarding silent uninstall (though not mentioning your version) that may have useful information.Hi Chuck,
No worries. Yes, i was able to execute the msiexec.exe from the directory i was trying it. I did search around some of the other silent uninstall posts as you suggested (i had looked at a few earlier, but obviously not the one i needed ;) ), and came across another post discussing the issue and they were mentioning where in the registry to find the uninstall stuff (their problem was different than mine). I looked in the registry to see if I could find the big long 32... number somewhere. I did find it, and it was different than what I found in the docs earlier! So previously in the docs, I was told to use this:
+{3248F0A8-6813-11D6-A77B-00B0D0n1n2n3n4n50}+
But as soon as I changed my command to the value that I found in the registry:
+{32A3A4F4-B792-11D6-A78A-00B0D0n1n2n3n4n50}+
it now works! So why would my value for 1.5 JDK be different (the first part anyway) than what is in the Sun documentation? Will this change based on the machine I'm on?
Thanks!