Mirror Driver Deployment UVNC R16


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By dominikd - Monday, August 04, 2008
Why is the option to deploy the mirror driver with the distribution packet of uvnc 1.0.4 R16 disabled? Is it planed to integrated the deployment of the driver in future versions? Which is the best way to deploy the driver, while it is not part of the distribution packet.
By Yury Averkiev (s-code) - Monday, August 04, 2008
Most probably this option will stay disabled until UltraVNC 1.0.4 reaches RTM status. But we are sure going to enable the driver installation sooner or later.
By jpickerell - Saturday, August 30, 2008
As 1.05 has been released, how soon do you plan on releasing an update that includes 1.05 and installing of the mirror driver?

Thanks
By Yury Averkiev (s-code) - Saturday, August 30, 2008
jpickerell (8/30/2008)
As 1.05 has been released, how soon do you plan on releasing an update that includes 1.05 and installing of the mirror driver?

Most probably it will be released as an update for the 4.0.14.0 build by the end of the next week.
By Yury Averkiev (s-code) - Tuesday, September 02, 2008
We have released UltraVNC v1.0.5 today. The MSI package has support for the driver installation. But since the VNC Manager 4.0.14.0 has this option disabled, the graphics driver installation part will only be available with the VNC Manager v4.1 release.
By jpickerell - Thursday, September 04, 2008
Thanks for releasing the MSI for 1.0.5!!! You say there is an option in the MSI. If I want to deploy the package myself with other means, how would I go about doing that? Are there MSI command line paramaters that would allow me to set all of the settings that are available in the deployment wizzard (including driver install)?

Thanks
Jared
By dominikd - Thursday, September 04, 2008
when do plan to release VNC-Manager 4.1?
By Yury Averkiev (s-code) - Saturday, September 06, 2008
jpickerell (9/4/2008)
Thanks for releasing the MSI for 1.0.5!!! You say there isan option in the MSI. If I want to deploy the package myself with other means, how would I go about doing that? Are there MSI command line paramaters that would allow me to set all of the settings that are available in the deployment wizzard (including driver install)?


Jared,
for proper installation of the driver, some help from the VNC Manager is needed. In particular, the MSI package does copy all the graphics driver files, but then the installation of UVNC is finished, we had to perform a WMI call to the remote computer and launch the graphics driver installation. The reason we have to do is because installdrv.exe application fails to work properly when launched from inside the MSI installer process.
By Yury Averkiev (s-code) - Saturday, September 06, 2008
dominikd (9/4/2008)
when do plan to release VNC-Manager 4.1?

The beta should be out within 10 days.
By Yury Averkiev (s-code) - Wednesday, September 10, 2008
We were able to modify the MSI installer for the 1.0.5 so it would install the graphics driver without additional help from the Deployment Wizard application.

Since in the 4.0.14.0 build the checkbox for the driver installation is disabled, we can provide you with a modified UVNC 1.0.5 deployment package which ignores the checkbox state and always installs the driver.

Please let me know if you need such custom deployment package.
By jpickerell - Saturday, September 13, 2008
An MSI installer that includes the driver would be excellent! Could you post one for download?

Someone else might wish to continue to have one without the driver as well, so you might include both.

Thanks!
Jared

By Yury Averkiev (s-code) - Sunday, September 14, 2008
I've updated this post with the downloand link for the deployment package with graphics driver installation turned on.
By jpickerell - Thursday, September 18, 2008
Thanks!... but looks like a problem.

It looks like it installed correctly when I manually ran the setup with the driver, but not when installing through VNC Manager. I removed the 104 setup file and replaced it(same name) with the new 105 with driver setup. It deployment errored out telling me that the uninstall key wasn't found. Will have to dig a little deeper to see what is happening.