Hi,
I’m wondering if 7-Zip is required to be installed in my BigFix OSD server. I noticed it was automatically got installed when I installed the OSD components in my server.
Follow up question.
If 7-zip is required, is it ok if I update the 7-zip to the latest version?
antonioe, if you are trying to update I dont think there will be a problem if you update the application. As if is required. I dont recall seeing it after teh server was set up. but then again. it has been a while since I did the server install.
7-zip is indeed required but once the application is installed (by any means) it is called by the following actionscript … which is not version dependent. So as long as the actionscript “finds” 7-zip when called, I would imagine it will all work fine regardless of version. Worst case scenario is that it does not work and you just uninstall 7-zip and re-install it using the OSD setup content.
wait “{(if (exists key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\7-Zip” whose (exists value “Path” of it) of x32 registry) then (value “Path” of key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\7-Zip” of x32 registry) else (value “Path” of keys “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\7-Zip” of x64 registry)) as string}7z.exe”
Thank you both for your reply. I will upgrade -zip and give it a try.
It would be nice if the default content was kept up to date with 7zip. The OSD version is currently 9 major versions out of date (18.01 vs. 9.2) or 7+ years if you want to go by the release date.
I have to different version of 7zip …old one is 24.0 and it's msi version, second one latest is 26.0 and it's non msi version.. whenever I want on latest one ..but I try to remove old one which is msi version my new one version corrupted/ crash….can u provide me script or any trouble shooting steps
Hi there,
For the OSD tasks, the installer type (MSI vs EXE) is not important. The only requirement is having a functional 7-Zip installed on the machine.
As for the 7-Zip crashing issue, it looks like the mixed installations messed up some shared files. I don't have a troubleshooting script for this, but maybe you could try uninstalling everything related to 7-Zip, restart your PC, and just install the latest version from scratch.
Thanks.
Sergio
BigFix OSD L3 support
Clean installion work.
The script is working, but I'm facing an issue.
Currently, I have three versions installed on the same system: versions 24, 25, and 26. My goal is to remove only versions 24 and 25 while keeping version 26 installed.
However, when I run the uninstallation script, it successfully removes versions 24 and 25, but version 26 becomes corrupted or crashes afterward.its showing in program and features.
Since version 26 is already installed on a large number of systems, I need a reliable solution before deploying this at scale.
Has anyone encountered this issue before? Any suggestions, troubleshooting steps, or recommended actions would be greatly appreciated.
Finally issue has been resolved.
Thank you