Deploy and register DLL?

Content Authoring
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Hi All,

Just trying to deploy and register a 32-bit dll on predominantly 64-bit Windows 2008 R2 / 2012 R2 servers and can’t quite seem to get it. All I am looking to do is;

  1. Delete file if exists
  2. Download file
  3. Move file to Windows\System32
  4. Register DLL

I also have a custom success criteria set to:

exit code of action = 0

Hopefully this will capture any instances where the DLL registration is not successful.

My fixlet as follows;

delete "__Download\MyFile.dll"
download "http://bigfix.server:6969/MyFile/MyFile.dll"
move "__Download\MyFile.dll" "(system folder)\MyFile.dll"
waithidden regsvr32 /s (System Folder)\MyFile.dll

Any help appreciated.

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Give this a shot! You’ll have to swap out the hashes and size with the actual values (as well as the URL).

prefetch MyFile.Dll sha1:mySha1 size:mySize MyURL sha256:mySha256

delete "{pathname of system folder}\MyFile.dll"

copy "__Download\MyFile.dll" "{pathname of system folder}\MyFile.dll"

waithidden regsvr32 /s "{pathname of system folder}\MyFile.dll"

Read up on how Prefetch works and take a look at the relevance / actionscript tutorials on http://developer.bigfix.com

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Thanks very much for this, seems to be working…mostly.

The regsvr32 command is failing with an exit code of 3, which from what I am reading means that the dll was not found. Used the debugger and {pathname of system folder} is getting expanded to be C:Windows\System32 as you’d expect. However when I do a search for MyFile.dll it is only being found in C:\Windows\SysWOW64

How do I account for this redirection in my action?

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Simply replace system folder with system x32 folder

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Thanks again. That didn’t seem to work for me. I disabled wow64 redirection which seems to do it.

action uses wow64 redirection false

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Disabling wow64 redirection causes the client to act in x64 mode by default.

My solution caused the client to enforce x86 path.

Sorry for the confusion!

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Ah, thanks for the clarity. There will be some Windows 2003 servers that need this dll registered, however I’ve only tested on Windows 2008/2012 R2 boxes which are 64-bit.

Will the action disabling wow64 just be ignored for Windows 2003, or will it through an error code? Reason being I have the success criteria set so that the exit code must be 0 for successful competition.

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action uses wow64 false has no effect when run on a 32-bit system. No error is raised.