IE Setup - From IExpress to Windows Package Installer

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re: IE Setup - From IExpress to Windows Package Installer

Vertor — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:59:00 GMT

Watson integration - is optimal.

Effect of Trojan.StartPage virus on IE

Rick — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:31:00 GMT

John Hrvatin --

I have not been able to get my daughter back online since her Dell Laptop Inspiron 8200 became infected with a Trojan.StartPage virus. I can't disable System Restore and the system tells me that the User Name and Password are inconsisten with what the system wants. Do you have suggestions?

Rick Boardman

re: IE Setup - From IExpress to Windows Package Installer

Eric — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:35:00 GMT

Thanks Malcolm for pointing out the redundancy in using those two switches together. The /quiet suppresses all dialogs where /passive shows the progress of the installation but does not allow the user to interrupt it. Using the two together would have the same effect as just using /quiet. I have asked the folks that write the bulletins to make this clearer going forward.

re: IE Setup - From IExpress to Windows Package Installer

AR — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:02:00 GMT

Thanks for the comment mw! I have corrected the whitepaper so the online version on TechNet should be correct.

re: IE Setup - From IExpress to Windows Package Installer

mw — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:08:00 GMT

The article you link to - "Inside update.exe" - is very informative, but seems to have a rather serious error. By my reading there are two contradictory definitions of "ERROR_SUCCESS_REBOOT_REQUIRED."
I'd near complain myself, but the complaint might be better heard if it came from an Microsoft developer/manager required to use update.exe patches.

re: IE Setup - From IExpress to Windows Package Installer

Roland Siegert — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:10:00 GMT

The switch to update.exe is very welcome!

BTW, I always wondered why the Update UIs don't support Visual Styles. Even the Setup wizard of XP SP2 doesn't use Visual Styles. The same is true for IE updates. For example, message boxes to restart the computer have non-themed buttons. Why is that?

re: IE Setup - From IExpress to Windows Package Installer

Josh Phillips — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 02:31:00 GMT

Personally, I liked the IEAK the best. As a large corporation it provided me the flexability to deploy IE in a preconfigured setup locked down in certain areas and open in others. With the current recomended practice of using GPO you just can't do that! They say you just make it a prefrence but i sure as heck can't get it to work that way. This is an area that i for one think has taken a huge step back in my opinion.

re: IE Setup - From IExpress to Windows Package Installer

Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:45:00 GMT

Related to update.exe vs msiserver, the section "Installer convergence" in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/patch/stdpatex.mspx describes the choice that was made.

It would be interesting to know what features got setup.exe to be the final choice for OS components.

Maybe a possible subject for a future blog entry? ':)

re: IE Setup - From IExpress to Windows Package Installer

Malcolm Miles — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:28:00 GMT

Why do the setup examples in MS04-040 and other IE security bulletins use both the /passive and /quiet options? Isn't this redundant?