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Former Member
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I have deployed the BOINC agent and the BOINCMGR to Windows 7 desktops via SCCM to our desktop computers. UAC is enabled via Group Policy on all user machines and turning it off is not an option.
The application behaves correctly and attaches to our team account however BOINC will not autostart with Windows 7 due to UAC requiring further interaction to be allowed to run from C:\Program Files. The powers that be have instructed that it needs to autostart with no user interaction. Is there a workaround to this without disabling the UAC facilities in Windows 7? I have trawled the forums and the option of editing the MSI package to alter the default install path is not an attractive option. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Hi,
----------------------------------------Don't know how to build a mass roll out package, see pdf http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/bg/BOINCMassInstall.pdf **, but it is essential you set it to install in protected mode execution (service), so essentially it runs as a service without it being needed to be launched by the BOINC Manager. This way UAC wont interfere nor can the users mess with the running of BOINC. ** doc is showing age and is based of the 5.10 client.
WCG
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3715 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Coffey International,
----------------------------------------You certainly know more than me about creating mass installers but you might miss some specific information about the parameters which can be used by the BOINC installers. I have recently discovered this wiki page which might help you to install BOINC as a service as Sekerob said: Creating custom installers Good luck. Jean. |
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X-Files 27
Senior Cruncher Canada Joined: May 21, 2007 Post Count: 391 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My simple way of doing a mass deploy is to repackage/package the msi (using installshield, wise, or orca).
----------------------------------------Things needed: 1)BOINC files can be extracted from the installer using "/a" 2)Registry keys (you can variabalize any of the values if you want to) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Setup] "INSTALLDIR"="PATH to INSTALL Directory" "DATADIR"="PATH to DATA Directory" "LAUNCHPROGRAM"="" "ENABLELAUNCHATLOGON"="" "ENABLESCREENSAVER"="" "ENABLEPROTECTEDAPPLICATIONEXECUTION"="" "ENABLEUSEBYALLUSERS"="1" "SETUPSTATESTORED"="TRUE" "SERVICE_DOMAIN"="" "SERVICE_USERNAME"="" "MIGRATIONVERSION"="" "RETURN_REBOOTREQUESTED"="0" "REBOOTPROMPT"="" "RETURN_VALIDATEINSTALL"="1" 3) Customization Files (optional but I recommend it) => account_*.xml - will automatically attached to that project => cc_config.xml => global_prefs_override.xml => gui_rpc_auth.cfg => remote_hosts.cfg Now that you have all the ingredients, you can create your new boinc msi with your standards and best practices. Also, if the project you will add supports annonymous platform (app_info.xml), you can add it as well. Your problem I think is due to BOINC sandboxing. SCCM will deploy it as system but BOINC has 2 other accounts created during installation(master and project). you can go deeper into this or just use my quick method    |
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