Important Notice: On February 29th, this community was put into read-only mode. All existing posts will remain but customers are unable to add new posts or comment on existing. Please feel to join our Community Discord for any questions and discussions.

CrashPlan PROe Custom Install

support

November 27, 2014 16:42

Hi,

We've recently purchased CrashPlan PROe and I'm planning to push this out via PDQ. As per their website (http://support.code42.com/Administrator/3.6_And_4.0/Configuring/Customizing_The_CrashPlan_App) you can pre-define fields such as the registration key, username, password etc. When doing this manually it works fine. However, if I try and install it via PDQ, I can't find a way to reference the custom file. I have tried to use the Command function to copy files to the target PC and then install the .exe file but it doesn't reference the custom file (despite the fact it would when running it manually).

Does anybody know how to push this and run it silently using the custom file? Perhaps I'm totally on the wrong path?!

Thanks

Simon

Comments

2 comments

Pushpak Patil

November 28, 2014 04:53

Did you try using batch file provided above link that you shared?

Here is the batch file edit it with your details and deploy.

Windows Batch Script Example

This script is an example and is not guaranteed or supported.

@ECHO OFF

REM The LDAP login user name and the CrashPlan user name.
SET CP_USER_NAME=%USERNAME%
Echo UserName: %CP_USER_NAME%

REM The users home directory, used in backup selection path variables.
SET CP_USER_HOME=%USERPROFILE%
Echo UserHome: %CP_USER_HOME%

REM Set the registration key
SET CP_REG_KEY=AAAA-BBBB-CCCC-DDDD
Echo RegKey: %CP_REG_KEY%

REM Tells the installer not to run CrashPlan client interface following the installation.
SET CP_SILENT=true
Echo Silent: %CP_SILENT%

SET CP_ARGS="CP_USER_NAME=%CP_USER_NAME%&CP_USER_HOME=%CP_USER_HOME%&CP_REG_KEY=%CP_REG_KEY%"
Echo Arguments: %CP_ARGS%

REM You can use any of the msiexec command-line options.
ECHO Installing CrashPlan...
CrashPlanPROe-x64_Win.exe /qn /l* install.log CP_ARGS=%CP_ARGS% CP_SILENT=%CP_SILENT%

Joey Alain
December 10, 2014 20:56

Hey Michael,

I actually use CrashPlan PROe as well. You don't need a batch command. From their website they give you instructions to modify a custom file included in the download. The file already has most of the tags you need. You simply fill in the fields you want pre-populated. You can also do things like remove the server connection field (which I do) so all they see is username/password. From there just make sure you include the entire directory when you build the PDQ Deploy package and it will automatically reference that file on it's own during execution, no reference or switches required.

0