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Hello:

This isn't particularly an opsi issue but I've been struggling with this for a couple days and I'm hoping someone out there might be kind enough to help me out.
I'm trying to use OPSI to deploy Apple iTunes 11.3 onto about 50 teacher computers at the school district I work at. I've followed several tutorials online for extracting and running the msi packages individually and opsi just chugs right through this without a single issue. What I'm running into is that when I actually log in as a teacher account and launch iTunes, an installer dialogue comes up and it says "Please wait while we configure iTunes" -- at which point it then tries to connect to the opsi share that originally installed it.

I've tried several work-around including just installing the actual exe (not using the msi packages) to no avail.
Can anyone point me in a direction to help me figure out what is going wrong? Does anyone have an iTunes opsi install script they might be willing to share?

In advance, many thanks,
Brent Bain

I have no experience with packaging iTunes, but have you tried the allusers property?

something like:
I'd reference the msdn documentation, but it's unreadable poop imo, this link is easier to understand

I agree about it being poop trying to make sense of that!
I did have ALLUSERS=1
I did confirm that if I just ran the installer as one user, logged in as another and then clicked the iTunes shortcut, it would then go out and try to make some changes (probably to the registry as file dates didn't change). My temporary work around (so I can get these computers finished and out the door) was to copy the installer msi file locally -- THEN install it. At least then the file is on the HD and not on the opsi share that is no longer available when they go to launch the app.

Brent

glad you managed to work around the problem.

just out of curiosity, what happens if you directly open iTunes.exe via Explorer instead of opening it via the shortcut?

Good idea -- but I just confirmed on my opsi test system that opening it directly, logged in as a new user, still runs the installer (itunes.msi)
After the first run it is fine.

What is also strange (at least to me) is that if I cancel the installer when logged in as a new user, it still launches iTunes just fine. This made me really think it was just modifying the registry. It would probably be good to do a snapshot of the registry before and after -- then see if I can just add the keys to the default user hive.

Brent