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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Conboy [mailto:Jim.Conboy_at_trw.com]
> Sent: lundi, 12. mars 2001 10:27
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> How do most organizations deploy sqlnet client to a large
> user base? We've currently got hundreds, maybe thousands of
> users with various versions of the client installed on their
> desktop. We're also about to roll out Windows 2000 to a
> large percentage of these users. In testing we've determined
> that earlier desupported client versions (7.3.4 and such)
> seem to work on W2K with the apps currently deployed. I'm
> not happy with a "cross your fingers and hope" approach and
> have been pushing to get most users up to 8i as a client.
> Ideally I'd like to have something the users can download and
> install from the intranet. In searching technet downloads
> all I find is the entire bloated 200MB Oracle Client as a
> download - much too big for our remote users to download and
> install. All I want is the Net8 pieces I'd need for
> sqlworksheet, or TOAD, or an ODBC connection, so that the
> download and install time would be within reason. Anybody
> have suggestions? How are people on this list deploying
> Oracle apps to many users? Thanks.
At the companies I've worked, we have used two different methods: a) For every new PC, have PC support people install SQL*Net from the Oracle CD - though I think sometimes they might just do a full disk copy from a startup disk on an identical system, not 100% sure about that
b) Have a log created by Oracle Installer and copy the actions performed by that log to create a WISE installation script. One of my colleagues did this at a previous company but had to change the WISE installation script several times because the Oracle Installer may not install some .DLLs if they are already present on the PC. e.g. if I remember correctly CTL3D.DLL was one that was missing from the WISE script because on our sample run it wasn't installed, but if it was missing from the PC the installer would copy it over.
c) There's also talk of a "silent" install but I think that was with older versions of the Oracle Installer. I don't know where the "silent" install is documented.
Jacques R. Kilchoer
(949) 754-8816
Quest Software, Inc.
8001 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, California 92618
U.S.A.
http://www.quest.com
Received on Tue Mar 13 2001 - 18:20:30 CST
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