Unattended install scripting for HP Softpaqs

[Patrick Dunford]

Has anybody done unattended installation packages scripting as part of any imaging solutions they use in their schools.

One of the banes of imaging is that manufacturers supply packages in which you must run an executable program to carry out the installation of drivers, instead of supplying driver files that Windows can automatically scan for and install at first run. Then you have to come up with a way to automate those installations and sometimes they just won't support this.

I need if possible to automate unattended / silent installation of the following HP Softpaqs which are provided with the current and recent model Tela lease laptops. We have already extracted the SPxxxxx.exe package to a folder and have the setup.exe and other installation files. The ones I need to do are

* Synaptics Touchpad Driver

* HP 3D Driveguard

* HP Hotkeys

Basically the requirement would be what switches are supported to make this automated/silent install possible.

thanks

[Mat Barton]

Hey Patrick, sorry, slightly off topic... but in relation to the new HP Tela Laptops... 

Did you have a problem with installing/updating the intel wireless network software package? 

I had a weird issue with it activating the indicator for the sound hotkey. Where it turns it from white (sound on) to orange (mute) and It would then stay orange till the software package was uninstalled. (I had to just add the driver in the end.)

or was I the only one with this problem....?

Thanks

Mat

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[Keith Craig]

Patrick

Have you tried getting “Driver Pack” - this has all the drivers – extract it then tell windows to scan this directory. We recently did this for some HP desktops – here is the URL

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/psi/swdDetails/?sp4ts.oid=5387454&spf_p.tpst=swdMain&spf_p.prp_swdMain=wsrp-navigationalState%3Didx%253D%257CswItem%253Dvc_121280_1%257CswEnvOID%253D4053%257CitemLocale%253D%257CswLang%253D%257Cmode%253D%257Caction%253DdriverDocument&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

Regards

Keith

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[Patrick Dunford]

I haven't tried the hotkey drivers install yet.

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[Patrick Dunford]

Typical experience here?

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/Synaptics-Touchpad-Silent-Install/td-p/1099635

[Simon - OBHS]

Are you using WDS (Windows Deployment Services) and MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit)?

If not, you should look into them...

WDS is Windows server role and MDT is a free from Microsoft. They will make your life so much easier when it comes to imaging machines.

MDT injects the drivers as part of installing windows and automating everything.

This will also your answer your question...

I have an application package for 3D drive guard and Hotkey installations.

It may differ between versions, but this is for the latest versions for the EliteBook 8560p

Extract the 3D drive guard files from the HP sp64144.exe (or whatever version) (use the likes of 7zip).

You should have a setup.exe and driver files..

For you command line for silent install use: setup.exe /quiet /norestart

Do the same for the hotkey package sp56876.exe which should give you just a setup.exe file.

Use the command: setup.exe -s -v"REBOOT="ReallySupress" /qn"

As for the touchpad driver, i haven't done that one yet...

[Simon - OBHS]

To further add to my last reply ive tested the synaptics touchpad install and this is what ive found works...

As previoulsy, extract the driver from the hp packaged file, in this case sp65266.exe

This will give you the initial bootstrap setup which then determines if your installing 64 or 32 bit then executes that particular setup which in turns runs the windows driver installer dpinst.exe from the respective folder.

Ive found when running the setup.exe with the command switches, when it comes to run the dpinst.exe it prompts to run from network as the publisher is unknown (not this was only tested when executed from a network drive/share) which is not ideal. I believe Patricks link the HP forum post references the same issue.

Ive found running the dpinst.exe directly work fine, bypassing the redundant setup.exe's.

So with this, you need to know determine which driver your installing 64 or 32bit and reference the dpinst.exe in that particular folder.

The command i used and tested with is: dpinst.exe /S /F /SE /SW

The list of commands are available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff544775(v=vs.85).aspx

Enjoy.

[Simon - OBHS]

Ok, re-read your original post...

So i can confirm that that the command for the Hotkey software works the same for the new laptops (sp64639.exe, version 5.0.21.1). 

Which model are you deploying?

If its the 850 G1 with the SSD, you don't need the 3D Driveguard software.

The synaptics driver installs with MDT driver injection so i don't need to run an application package, but i will test and feedback.

[Simon - OBHS]

Righto,

The new synaptics driver (sp64934.exe) works with the same commands as previously stated.

I cannot confirm the 3D driveguard as it will not install with an SSD present.

However, you can either try what i had referred to previously, though the newer version has an updated installer. So try this command: setup.exe /s /v/qn /norestart

If that doesn't quite work in terms of it restarting anyway, use the same command as the hotkey to stop the auto restart.

Just as a note, you can always try running a setup with /? as this will give you a message box with a list of commands. this isn't true for every setup program though.

The /s /v/qn is very standard for packaged MSI installs (executables as opposed to .msi files).

msiexec /i "package.msi" /q or /qn and /norestart are typical for straight MSI files.

[Patrick Dunford]

I have used MDT, but whether you are using it or not is irrelevant (we are not at the moment)

To automate an installation you need to know the application specific command line parameters that that particular application supports.

[Patrick Dunford]

The full drivers package from HP provides a version of the Synaptics driver that will fully install from INF files. When Windows scans for drivers after the first restart it can be configured to look into custom specified folders containing driver packages based on the INF files and install all the drivers needed by the installed hardware.

The driveguard and hotkeys software don't auto install from the supplied packages.

[Patrick Dunford]

Thanks for that, I'll have a look at it

As noted previously the full driver package from HP provides a version of the Synaptics drivers that will install off the INF file supplied. In other words all you need to do is copy the files to a folder somewhere and then use whatever mechanism your install environment provides to specify that Windows scans this folder when it searches for device drivers. At that point the touchpad driver and software will install in the same way as all the other hardware drivers.

Technically the other packages are not hardware drivers, although HP could have chosen to make them this way (hotkeys as a keyboard driver or something).

[Simon - OBHS]

Well yes, I was merely enquiring if you use MDT or not, a lot of people don't or have never heard of it.

I had replied with the commands as well.

[Simon - OBHS]

Indeed they do. I let MDT install them from the driver injection.

You had listed the synaptics driver, so i gave you a way of installing it silently.

[Simon - OBHS]

Both the hotkeys and 3D drive guard actually contain driver components. The hotkey uses a keyboard filter driver that a service monitors to then display the indicators or launch whatever.

The same goes for the 3D driveguard. It installs a drive for the accelerometer and a service which shuts the hard drive down at a pre-determined acceleration level.

Whether you want windows to install the synaptics driver or you want to install it manually and silently like the hotkeys and 3D driveguard is up to you, i gave you a way of doing all three as asked by your first post.