I developed an application in .net that have to be deployed to our customers thru BigFix
The application is a very small application (basically contacts an web service to register asset info).
we didn’t create an installer because is just an executable and a library file (one .exe and one .dll)
now, BigFix administrator is telling me that BigFix only allows to upload files to the system from an url location using Internet Explorer; the problem with it is that IE has a “feature” that will run any .net exe application instead of ask for download it.
You can cache the file on the server manually. The BES root server has a built in web server. Any file in \wwwrootbes will be accessible via http. It is very common to create a folder in the wwwrootbes folder to hold custom downloads. For example, say you want to distribute “myapp.exe”. If you create a folder called “Software” inside the “wwwrootbes” folder, and place “myapp.exe” into the “Software” folder, the bes server will be serve up the file if you hit this url: http://your.server.hostname:52311/Software/myapp.exe
If you create an action to distribute the file, the action script would start like this:
