Custom Installer Packages; Overview; Creating A Customized Installer Using Fcrepackager - Fortinet Version 4.0 MR1 Administration Manual

Custom Installer Packages

Custom Installer Packages

Overview

Creating a customized installer using FCRepackager

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This chapter describes how to create a custom MSI package for FortiClient Endpoint
Security that you can deploy to your users. The customized installation can include the
necessary configuration for central management by a FortiManager system.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Overview
• Creating a customized installer using FCRepackager
• Customizing the installer using an MSI editor
• Deploying the Customized Installation
• Managing FortiClient with FortiManager
• Advanced Scenarios
This chapter describes two methods of producing a custom MSI installer: using
FCRepackager and using the MSI editor. The FCRepackager tool is included in the
FortiClientTools.zip file and is the recommended method to use.
With both types of customized installation, you can:
• set which features are installed
• include the FortiClient license key
• enable or disable the installation wizard
• enable or disable update scheduling
• set update schedule randomly on install
• enable or disable upgrade of existing installation
• enable management by a FortiManager system and set the FortiClient Manager
lockdown password
You can simply give your users the customized package to install. It works the same way
as the standard installer provided by Fortinet. There are several other ways to distribute
the customized installer, including a network installer image, Windows Active Directory
server or the FortiClient host check feature on some FortiGate units. These are described
in the "Installation" chapter.
FCRepackager is designed to speed up the creation of customized FortiClient installation
packages. This tool will create a Microsoft Transform (MST) file from the current
FortiClient installation settings. The current settings can be packed into an MST file by
running the FCRepackager with no command line parameters.
Optionally, you write the current installation settings into a FortiClient.msi file, so that end-
users do not need to use the command line to incorporate MST files. To create a custom
msi file, see "Creating the custom MSI installation file" on page
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