McAfee MANAGEMENT EDITION 2.5 Administrator's Manual page 50

Installing the Management Edition Program
Performing a "silent" installation for rollout of the VirusScan
program
If you manage a network and want to deploy the VirusScan program as your
standard anti-virus security application, you can use the program's "silent"
installation feature to set up the VirusScan program on each network node
with little or no interaction from end users. During a silent installation, Setup
does not display any of its usual wizard panels or windows, or offer the end
user any configuration options. Instead, you preset these choices and run
Setup in the background on each target workstation. If you like, you can even
install the VirusScan program on any unattended workstations or without the
end user's knowledge, provided you have all the necessary administrative
privileges.
A silent installation consists of two major steps. First, you must install the
same VirusScan components on your administrative computer or server that
you want Setup to install on each target workstation. A special Setup mode
records the choices you make during installation and preserves them in a
configuration file called SETUP.ISS. Next, you must use a different Setup
mode to install an identical VirusScan configuration on each target system.
Setup will use the SETUP.ISS file you create in the first step to guide each
subsequent installation you perform.
SETUP.ISS is simply a specially formatted text file similar to configuration files
such as WIN.INI or SYSTEM.INI. You can open it in any text editor and change
any of its entries to suit your needs.
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Recording your preferences
To record your installation preferences, follow these steps:
1. Look for an existing SETUP.ISS file inside the \WINDOWS folder on
2. Choose Run from the Start menu in the Windows taskbar.
3. Type <X>:\SETUP.EXE -R in the text box provided, then click OK.
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NOTE: Network Associates recommends that you make only limited
changes to the SETUP.ISS file. If you want complete control over the
installation process, or if you want to specify the configuration options
for each copy of the VirusScan program in advance, you can use
ISeamless, a powerful Network Associates scripting tool designed for
this purpose. Contact Network Associates Technical Support for details.
your administrative computer or server. If you find a file with that name
in the WINDOWS folder, rename it or delete it.
As you record your installation preferences, Setup will save them into a
new SETUP.ISS file in the same location.
The Run dialog box will appear.