Intune

[Werner2024]

good day

Hope someone can assist me, I want to create a intune package that copy a folder from a network server to the local C drive of the computer, after the copy has finish I want it to automatically deploy the installation file in the folder that's copied to the local C drive.

I have try many steps but it looks like the copy does not happen, is there any advice on how I can better this steps or any scripts I can use? any advice will be helpful.  

[#2]

@Werner2024 These steps can be achieved with a powershell script that you can package as intunewin and then deploy as an app. Are you already doing these steps? If so, can you share the script with us?

[#3]

Hi Jos van der Vaart

Thanks you for the reply, here is the script i am using noe, might not be the best but it works if you run it on the machine self, but not trough Intune

$sourceFolderPath = " # Specify the network path to the shared folder
$destinationFolderPath = # Specify the local destination path on your laptop
$softwarelocation =

#Write-Host $destinationFolderPath
#Write-Host $sourceFolderPath


# Create the destination folder if it does not exist
if (-not (Test-Path -Path ${destinationFolderPath})) {
try {
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path ${destinationFolderPath} -ErrorAction Stop
Write-Host "Folder created at ${destinationFolderPath}"
}
catch {
Write-Host "Error creating folder: ${destinationFolderPath}"
return
}
}
else {
#Write-Host "Destination folder already exists."
}

# Use xcopy to copy files from the shared folder to the local destination
try{
$xcopyCommand = "Copy-Item -Path "File Location" -Destination C:\ -Recurse"
Invoke-Expression -Command $xcopyCommand
Write-Host "Files copied from ${sourceFolderPath} to ${destinationFolderPath}."
}

catch {
Write-Host "Error copying files: $_"
}

#Wait for 15 seconds
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 15000

cd $softwarelocation

Start-Process -FilePath .\ "Install file"-ArgumentList "/S" -Wait

[#4]

Hey Werner, Thanks for sharing.

Have you tried running it locally and could you share a anonimised error log?

it looks like that you also install it in the same script.

Maybe it's easier to use a .zip containing the set of files, copying it over and using unzip archive command to achieve easier copying to the folder you want,

Expand-Archive -LiteralPath <PathToZipFile> -DestinationPath <PathToDestination>

I have done this due to an AX installation and used a zip to move the 4gb big file towards a temp folder on the endpoint, then unzipping it and using the install script to install it.

[#5]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the info will definitely give it a try, my only concern is the copy process from the server to the local machine does not happen, so I am stuck there.

The error logs does not give me any error's or false status, the app show installed on Intune console but on the endpoint nothing is happening. what I have notice is that it shows that the app is downloading and installing then a min after that it fails.

[#6]

Hi Werner,

Thanks for sharing, but how do you roll out this script through Intune. Is this through an app or a script? I would advise you to at least roll it out as an app.

[#7]

I have a poweshell script that I have build an .intunewin package, then from there I upload into Intune as an Windows app (Win32) app to deploy.

[#8]

Uhh... how are you deploying that app? I assume in the system context? as the system account will probably not have access to that file share on the server...

[#9]

Hi Rudy

Yes that's my thoughts also but was not sure if that could be the cause or is the script the issue, hens the logs did not show anything weird I figured maybe that might be an access issue.

any suggestions what we can do to test the access? intune does run with a services account and I doubt that you can create a separate folder only allowing that account to the folder.

[#10]

Hi Werner,

You can test the access by running your script locally as SYSTEM. You can do that by downloading PSEXEC.EXE from Microsoft (SysInternals Tools) and running "psexec.exe -accepteula -s -i cmd.exe" or "start \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\psexec.exe -accepteula -s -i cmd.exe"

In the scenario you describe you would probably need to delegate Read rights on the source folder to something like "Everyone" to make this work.

[#11]

Hi James,

Will definitely test the access, the other problem we also facing is that policy rules does not allow us to give "everyone" access to any folder, I will test the access if thats the case I will see what we can do from there or get a work around.

Thanks for all the advice really appreciate it.

[#12]

Hey Werner,

No problem! What is the command you are using in intune? maybe the installment is dedicated to run as USER with Elevated rights.

greets,
tim

[#13]

I use the below command

Powershell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -File .\script.ps1

[#14]

This is mine and works flawlessly in this scenario

powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -file "Install.ps1"

My AX installation script looks like the following:
$tempExtractPath = "C:\Temp\ExtractedFiles"
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $tempExtractPath -Force | Out-Null

# Pak het .zip-bestand uit naar de tijdelijke map
Expand-Archive -Path $zipFilePath -DestinationPath $tempExtractPath -Force


Then I use the start-process to install the AX

[#15]

Thanks Tim

Will give this a try definitely