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SaRA scripted install
I copied the content of the path where the applications is stored under appdata. Uinstalled, and started the applications from the Microsoft.sara.exe file. It worked!
Install the application and run it. Open taskmanager, and right click the app, then press open location:So now i guess you can create a shortcut to the exe poiting to a network path or create a pacakge somehow.
Maybe on to something here:
I copied the content of the path where the applications is stored under appdata. Uinstalled, and started the applications from the Microsoft.sara.exe file. It worked!
Install the application and run it. Open taskmanager, and right click the app, then press open location:
So now i guess you can create a shortcut to the exe poiting to a network path or create a pacakge somehow.
I moved the Microsoft.Sara.exe to another machine and running it alone does nothing.
The whole folder is 100MB but zips up to 20MB. Moving this to another machine and running it after uncompressing works so I guess my script will need to do that.
Next step is write the deployment script but it's looking good so I'll mark your reply as the best answer.
Thanks again.
Hello Andrew,
Curious if you managed to successfully deploy a script for Microsoft.Sara.exe to silent install on a new machine?
Microsoft have advised us to manually run SaRa on each machine in order to uninstall 32bit office suite, obviously this is not practical. Therefore we are seeking an automated approach.
Thanks.Sorry Roy
Had no luck and realised it was flogging a dead horse so that one was shelved.
If you get anywhere, do post here as I still think it's something that should be available on any machine running Office365 as a matter of course. You'd think it would be included in the Office install wouldn't you?
Good luck.
Wow - I'll go and give this a try now but full marks for tenacity. I'll report back here later and mark your past as the answer if all is well.
Thank you very much.
