DesktopCentral agent pushing made easy

Endpoint Central | March 25, 2008 | 2 min read

Hi Folks,

Here is an interesting and useful tip on the Desktop Central Agent installation. Using this MS free tools (previously known as sysinternals run by Mark Russinovich) you can deploy the agent to the client computers instead of doing this through Active Directory login script. Also you have the option to use this in the workgroup environment. I’m proud that this was a tip send to us by Niall Gowanlock, desktop central user. Now, lets move on to the real stuff. Here is how you push the DC agent to a remote client computer using the psexec tool

PSEXEC.exe \\<computer_name> -u mydomain\administrator -p mydomain_password CSCRIPT \\<network_share>\InstallAgent.vbs DesktopCentralAgent.msi

You need to provide the remote client computer name and the credentials. If you don’t want to give the credential (the password on the command line) you can leave the -p option and it will be prompted when you run the command line. Similarly make sure you have the DC Agent Install script, the DesktopCentralAgent.msi file located in the network share with proper permission for everyone to use it. In case you want to use it for bulk number of machines here is the procedure.

For /f %f in <pcname_list .txt> do PSEXEC.exe \\%f -u mydomain\administrator -p mydomain_password CSCRIPT \\<network_share>\InstallAgent.vbs DesktopCentralAgent.msi

Here the PCNAME_LIST.txt is the plain text file which has the list of all the client computers you want to install the desktopcentral agent. You can download the PSEXEC and other tools from the below given Microsoft site.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

More information can be seen on the forum.The same tip has been added in the Desktop Central knowledge base articles.

regards

romanus

Romanus

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    Thanks for the corrections and suggestions.

    Correction #1 : The pcname_list.txt should be within () brackets.

    Suggestion #1 : From the SoM page sort on Remark and export as csv for using it with the above script.

    Tip #1 : Either you can use Excel sheet to take the computer name list or use column chooser in Desktop Central SoM page to have only computer name before exporting.

    cheers
    romanus

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