What tools do you use to help create BigFix content?

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(imported topic written by jgstew)

What tools do you find useful to help create Bigfix content? ( Fixlets, Tasks, Analysis, etc… )

I’ve found both ResEdit & EXIFtool to be useful to help figure out what packaging tools were used to create the particular software installer I’m trying to automate through BigFix. See this post:

http://bigfix.me/blog/post/2013/9/4/figure-out-what-installer-you-re-dealing-with-resedit-exiftool

I have also used 7zip to extract the contents of many installers to get at the files used during installation. I have used “Universal Extractor” for installers that 7zip fails to extract.

What else is out there?

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(imported comment written by reneschmidt)

Hi

I know the products you listed above. I use them, too.

I also use Advanced Installer to create MSI packages. The Free Edtion allows enough things to do. If you want dig deeper you have to buy a higher edition depending on your needs. The tool is easy to handle. I have used it for serveral thinks (installation Fonts for example).

Link:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/

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(imported comment written by martinc)

Not so much a tool, but a site. I have used
http://www.itninja.com/
(used to be appdeploy.com) as it usually has some really good tips for those difficult programs.

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(imported comment written by jgstew)

Thats a great one. These are similar options:

http://wpkg.org/Category:Silent_Installers

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.php

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/wiki/Scripts

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(imported comment written by jgstew)

Anyone have a good tool for exploring WMI through a GUI?

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(imported comment written by dmoore21)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730935.aspx

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(imported comment written by SergioBenavides)

Try WMI Code Creator…

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8572

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