Mobility Client — Silent Installation

Technical Note 2182

Last Reviewed 10-Jan-2008
Applies to:
Mobility XE client version 6.00 and higher
Mobility client OS: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista (version 7.20 and higher only, see Vista Note below)
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Summary

The Mobility Client can be silently installed using MSI, with configuration options specified in an information (.inf) file. The Mobility client MSI file is on your product CD, or can be obtained from NetMotion Wireless Support.

Vista Note: Silent install on Windows Vista will only work when the Mobility client is version 7.20 or greater (older versions will not run on Vista). In addition, both of the following conditions must be met:

1. You must be logged in to the client machine as the Administrator. A user with administrator privileges does not have sufficient permissions to perform a silent install.

2. NetMotion's certificate must be added to the certificate manager. There are a couple of different ways this can happen:

   • A Mobility client was previously installed on the device and during installation the "Always trust software from NetMotion Wireless" checkbox was checked.

   • Alternatively, the NetMotion certificate has been installed into the "Trusted Publisher" store on the device. (Note: for further information on this procedure, contact technical support.)

Silent Installation

In a silent installation of the Mobility client you must specify the Mobility server's name or IP address during the installation. This is done using an .inf file that you edit and make available to MSI when the Mobility installation is run. Follow these steps to modify the .inf file for your environment:

1. Download this Options.inf file and put it in the same folder as the NetMotion Mobility client installation files.

2. Open Options.inf in a text editor and make the following edit:

   • On the second line under [NMsettings], replace 10.128.5.73 with the IP address of your Mobility server.

3. Save the Options.inf file.

Follow these steps to silently install the client:

1. Copy the client setup file 2kclient.msi and your edited Options.inf to the client device, or make them available via a network share.

2. Run Msiexec with the following parameters, changing c:\mypath\ to the correct path on your client:

   msiexec.exe /qn /i c:\mypath\2kclient.msi NM_OPTIONS="c:\mypath\options.inf" EQSI="1"
   

3. The Mobility client software will install, after which the device reboots.

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