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Does Deploy need network access throughout a multi-step deployment?

Andrew Stuart

July 25, 2017 18:38

I need to uninstall a broken Intel Network Connections 17.2.154.0, which will remove the network driver in the process of removing the DMIX. I then need to install the latest Intel ProSet package.

I think from what I have seen, file copies are done during each step, not at the beginning of the process, so this would fail.

I figure I can get around that by using a copy step to make the files local. However, I wonder, are the steps all queued on the client? or what I suspect is the client needs connectivity for each step.

Am I correct in my assumptions? Other then using a script to do both things at once locally, is there any alternative ways to do this directly in Deploy?

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Stephen Valdinger
July 25, 2017 18:41

Each "step" in a package needs to talk to Deploy so that it can communicate success/failure rates. This way if you have Error preferences set they can be acknowledged and acted upon.

Your best bet is going to be scripting this I think. You can push the script out with PDQ deploy and then use PDQ Inventory to execute the script, but you'll not have a great way of knowing Success/Failure while the script is running.

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