Citrix CCA MetaFrame Presentation Server 3. 0 and 4. 0 Exam CramT (Exams 223 and 256)

In many cases, you will find that having the capability to do an unattended installation of MPS is very useful. An unattended installation basically means that you prepopulate all the prompts that you are faced with during a normal installation within a text file; then you run the installation, pointing it to that text file for answers to prompts.

This capability is especially useful if you are deploying a large number of servers or if you are installing MPS from a remote location or to several locations.

Citrix provides you with a sample answer file that you can customize and use for your unattended installs . This sample file is located on the MPS 3.0 CD-ROM in the following path : Support\Install\UnattendedTemplate.txt . You can use another file in the same directory, called UnattendedInstall.exe , to trigger the unattended install.

The process for running an unattended install is as follows :

1. Make a copy of the UnattendedTemplate.txt file and name it something else; we called ours unattend.txt .

2. Open the file with any text editor such as Notepad.

3. Configure the file with your configuration. The file also provides suggestions about every setting.

4. Save the file.

5. Copy the mps.msi package, the unattended.txt file, and the unattendedinstall.exe file into one directory. You can find the mps.msi file in the MetaFrame Presentation Server directory on the CD-ROM.

6. From a command prompt, switch to the directory where you saved all three files and run the following command:

   UnattendedInstall < Windows Installer package > < answer file >

   In our case, the command would look like this:

   UnattendedInstall mps.msi unattend.txt