Corona.msi for 1.4?

[Dippndots]

Hey, just wondering if it was possible to release a .msi version of the corona installer for 1.4 when the time comes? It would make rolling out the update to our ~30 machines much easier.

[Frood]

Although I use a script for installing/updating corona on all ws/nodes (which works fine for me, at least if there are no additional installer packages to deploy), it would be indeed great and a more professional approach to have a msi to throw onto the domain controller and have it installed automatically on all boxes by domain policy, yes! Presupposed DrServer comes as windows service in future.

Not a high priority request for me (because I always liked the option of a manual installation very very much and corona seems to take care not to rely on some obscure registry settings like almost all other software) but something to definitely think about.

Good Luck

[Ondra]

sorry, but MSI seems to be utterly broken tech that likes to always blow up, so we wont be touching that...

[Dippndots]

good to know, this sort of automation isnt my strong-suit. Any change of sharing that script Frood?

[Frood]

Sure but

• You need to have access to the admin shares (c$) on your nodes
• You need to have DrServer running as windows service
• To use the cleaning part (plugcfg directory) you may have to change some lines because I run max with useUserProfiles=0 in 'InstallSettings.ini' since the time max started to use userprofiles :) (benefit: all settings are independent from the user who is executing max)
• You may have to add some code to stop stuff like V-Ray spawner if used on your slaves
• Even if unlikely, you may mess up the node(s) if not used properly

If you are still interested, drop me a PM.

Good Luck

[Dippndots]

ok lol, that's more that what I want to mess with. I'll try using an msi wrapper for the .exe. Thanks for the offer though.