Installer Query

@jeroen, Hi, we have been experiencing some server lockups that I think you have addressed in (4.2.2) ,which is great! I was wondering whether you could consider a new feature to do with installation.

We have over 200 servers to perform installs on when new releases come through and we have a wrapper utility that initiates mydefrag via commandline and controls scheduling based on each servers processing requirements. We do not use the GUI.

For installation I would like to have something along these lines..

Distribute the installer exe (eg. MyDefrag-v4.2.3.exe) to a common location on all servers, which are distribution software would do.

Run the installer in silent mode via a centralized command initiator, which we would do.

When the installer runs it install in %ProgramFiles%\mydefrag (without the version extension)

Possibly achieve this via a new commandline arguement to the installer to retain requirements for users that require ability to revert to earlier versions (if need be).

We do not require any myd sample scripts to be installed as our wrapper utility generates these from a generic data deck within the wrapper, so we really only need the commandline executable and any other files that will satisfy the licencing agreement, possibly achieve this by a second new commandline argument –commandlineonly.

Reason for asking this is that we have a policy to remove any old versions of software when upgraded, where possible (MS always get us on this one). We have centralized software that can distribute files to all servers and execute commandline scripts to cleanup files, but it is still quite time consuming. We maintain a centralized software repository that contains the mydefrag versions previously used and if we ever need to revert to an earlier version we can do so by rerunning our centralized distribution\installation process of the earlier version.

As usual your comments and feedback appreciated.
Regards Owen.