Deploying Winows XP SP3

(imported topic written by carroll91)

I want to deploy XP SP3 to a few thousand machines in the near future to be ahead of the summer end of support for patches etc. for SP2. Can anyone let me know if there is a more efficient way to do this with the relevance below. I don’t know how to do a prefetch so am hoping to get some help as it is a big download to run.

download http://bigfix.bcferries.corp:52311/Uploads/16f2c61bc0cb2c91f60a729136f4e712adc4b5b1/WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENUexe.tmp

continue if {(size of it = 331404289 AND sha1 of it = “16f2c61bc0cb2c91f60a729136f4e712adc4b5b1”) of file “WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENUexe.tmp” of folder “__Download”}

extract WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENUexe.tmp

wait __Download\WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe

As always, any assistance is greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Carroll.

(imported comment written by Lee Wei)

Hi Caroll,

XP SP3 is approximately 315MB is size, and I would recommend that you talk to someone at BigFix to go through different scenarios and issues specific to your environment.

Your ActionScript looks good, the executable should probably be ran in Silent mode.

The Patches for Windows subscription has a Fixlet ID# 13501 that you use, if you have already seen it. The ActionScript there goes like this:

download http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/3/0/d30e32d8-418a-469d-b600-f32ce3edf42d/WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe
 
continue if {(size of it = 331805736 AND sha1 of it = "c81472f7eeea2eca421e116cd4c03e2300ebfde4") of file "WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe" of folder "__Download"}
 
wait __Download\WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe /quiet /norestart
 
action may require restart "c81472f7eeea2eca421e116cd4c03e2300ebfde4"

There is a Wizard (File Pre-Cache Wizard) to pre-cache the payload on Relays.

You can also simply take out the extract and wait commands in your script and then target the Relays to cache automatically.

Lee Wei