Largescale Deployment of Quicktime

I would very much like the nitty gritty details. I am wrestling with this right now on 400+ workstations and need to do this silently. Thanks.

Whoam, I already had a script to deploy QT, which I do with GP Preferences, this way it happens at every refresh, not just restart. However, I added this line that you suggested:
msiexec /i \\server\share nameQT7.64.17.73\AppleApplicationSupport.msi /quiet

to the same script, and now it installs support silently as well. Thanks for the tip.

-KH

Hey axeshr3dder,
Would you mind sharing the 'Nitty Gritty' with us? I'm trying to deploy QT 7.6.4 to 3000 PCs next week and your help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Thank you, axeshr3dder and Whoam! Using 7zip and the extracted Apple Application Support .msi is making this update a whole lot easier!

axeshr3dder,

Man - wish I would have read your post before I discovered exactly what you wrote up for v7.6.4 - also appears to be true for v7.6.5. I went through the pain of finding the extra msi dependency (I think the last version I tried to re-package was 7.6.2) and then just about called it good (I'm attempting Group Policy deployment) when I noticed that none of the mime types for Firefox had registered - again, just like you called it. Anyway, since I see your post is a couple months old just wondering - did you ever find an acceptable workaround? I'm seeing when I run the msi interactively the types are registered - but put /q switch on there and forget it.

One other thing I noticed - if after I ran the install quietly I would simply open the QuickTime control panel applet -> File Types (Tab) -> Click 'OK' without making any changes the mime types would register in Firefox.

-wolfpackitguy

Just following up on my own post of what I eventually did to get a fully deployable Group Policy based install of QuickTime v7.6.5. The gist of what I had to do was install the two QuickTime msi's (quicktime.msi, appleapplicationsupport.msi) in quite mode on a test system and then capture the changes that the Control Panel applet makes when it is opened and applies the MIME type settings/browser plugins. I then took the captured data, created a third MSI out of that and put all three msi's in a single group policy.

In case anyone wants to try the same:

1. Used Orca to directly edit the QuickTime.msi (included in apple's distribution package) language settings:

Changed:
View -> Summary Information -> Languages
1033,1036,1031,1041,1043,1040,1028,2052,1034,1030,1035,1042,1044,1045,2070,1046, 1049,1053

To:
1033

per this post: http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=29256 - tried to install with Chinese language.

2. On a vanilla XP test system installed Firefox

3. Installed these two msi's in quiet mode:

msiexec /i QuickTime.msi /qb
msiexec /i AppleApplicationSupport.msi /qb

4. Ran AdminStudio Repackager tool (repack.exe) on same XP test system:

1. Captured a batch file install that issued the following command:
"%ProgramFiles%\QuickTime\QTSystem\QuickTime.cpl"
2. Clicked the 'Browser' tab on the QT control panel preferences applet
3. Clicked 'MIME Settings...'
4. (Changed nothing) Clicked 'OK' (I also unselected the Notify checkbox)
5. Clicked 'OK' again to close QT control panel applet
6. Allowed the AdminStudio package to Process these changes
7. Then used AdminStudio Repackager output to build MSI

The resultant MSI had the logic to set the MIME type info in the registry and register the QT plugin with Firefox.

Sorry folks I totally forgot about this post. For what it's worth, in the end I did not use my repackaged version. All that had to be done was simply extract the installers for quicktime and app support with 7zip (like I mentioned). The key to the firefox snafu was to make sure you install app support THEN quicktime (this is the order the exe does it). I was doing it in the opposite order and thats why firefox was not reporting quicktime as being installed. This method has worked for subsequent releases as well. Give it a try. However, I still hate apple with all my gut 🙂.

Also I recommoned Microsoft's SCCM for software deployments (instead of GPO) if your company can afford it. Im starting to use it for OS deployments as well and have become quite the SCCM engineer ( there's money to be made 🙂 )