Is it possible to preconfigure the GlobalProtect MSI installer and customize the installation? For example, I’d like to see the following changes to our installer.
Bypass “Welcome to the GP Setup Wizard”. Our users do not need this screen as we are 100% of the time telling them to click Next.
Bypass “Select Installation Folder” as we prefer and require the same installation path for all users.
Bypass “Confirm Installation”. We think this is also unnecessary as the user is going to get a UAC prompt once the open the MSI. Allowing the MSI to install GP via UAC is enough of a confirmation for us.
Prefill the “portal address” field (instead of prompting the user to ‘please enter your portal address’). We only have one portal for our users and there isn’t a need to make them manually type this. (I know we can control this via GPO as well, but I would still prefer to prefill this if possible).
in options under database, enable “copy embedded streams”
when you make changes to the values in the “Registry” section (for example the PORTAL), you also have to the remove the corresponding condition in the “Component” section to make it work
by generating a Transform (mst file), you can apply this transform to upcoming GlobalProtect releases in just seconds
Yes this, ours using PDQdeploy is the following as wehad issues with quotes around portal address.
msiexec.exe /i “GlobalProtect64.msi” ALLUSERS=1 /qn /norestart /log output.log PORTAL=PORTAL ADDRESS
thanks. i’m familiar with the msiexec commands, but was wondering if we can compile those settings into the MSI itself? so when a user downloads the MSI and installs it themselves, they get those items configured automatically?
i’m aware of the switches, but am looking to embed those switches in the MSI installer so our vendors and partners get those settings automatically as a part of the install. We dont manage their endpoints so we can’t run those installs on their behalf.
