Making a BigFix MSI

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I did some digging with Orca.

It seems the masthead info is in the Registry table of the MSI.

  • RegistryMasthead
  • SOFTWARE\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\GlobalOptions
  • ActionMasthead
  • RegistrySiteURL
  • SOFTWARE\BigFix\ClientComplianceAPI
  • SiteURL
  • Registry3
  • SOFTWARE\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client__RelayServer1

There is also a MASTHEADFILE entry in the MSI property table

The SOFTWARE\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\GlobalOptions\ActionMasthead value seems to be very close to the size of the contents of the masthead file in a hexadecimal representation with #x on the front.

With some further digging, I think this is exactly it:

("#x" & it) of (it as hexadecimal) of concatenations of (characters it) of bytes (integers in(0,size of it)) of files "C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Installers\Server\actionsite.afxm"

This seems to go in the ActionMasthead value in the SOFTWARE\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\GlobalOptions\ActionMasthead 32bit reg key.

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