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Customizing the installer
The new BOINC installer is an MSI package.
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+
Active Directory Deployment
+
Suppose you want to modify it so that you can
-deploy BOINC across a Windows network using Active Directories,
+deploy BOINC across a Windows network using Active Directory,
and have all the PCs attached to a particular account.
Here's how to do this:
+
+
+- Download the BOINC client package and execute it with the /a parameter.
+
- Drop the files to a share that can be accessed by all the computers on the network.
- Using Microsoft ORCA,
-edit the installer to set the installation parameters to what you want.
+or some other MSI packaging tool, create an MSI Transform that contains the the
+account_*.xml files of the projects you have already attached too on another machine
+plus the following parameters:
+
+ - Single-user install:
+
+
+ Parameter |
+ Description |
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+
+ - Shared install:
+
+
+ Parameter |
+ Description |
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+
+ - Service Install:
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+
+ Parameter |
+ Description |
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+
+
- The global property ACCOUNTS_LOCATION specifies
(either in UNC or drive:path format)
a directory containing initial account files (normally null).
@@ -69,6 +101,10 @@ You can edit this to point to the account file you want.
For large-scale deployments it is probably safer
to use UNC paths.
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+Command line deployment
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+
Technical details