DiDiDistribute

DiDiDistribute was developed to be a shell GUI for the powerful Sysinternals PsExec that let you use it together with the Microsoft Windows installer to create an easy to use network remote package distribution and installation tool.

PsExec is a powerful tool by Sysinternals that let you execute processes on other systems. complete with full interactivity for console applications, without having to manually install client software.

Some sys admins are using PsExec to apply new packages to the clients. When using DiDiDistribute as a GUI shell for PsExec, you don't need to create or maintain complex scripts and batch files for this task, DiDiDistribute will also prevent from running into scripts and syntax errors. DiDiDistribute can also be used to uninstall packages from network remote clients.

- Browse or enter the full path to the distribution list text file you have created. This edit box is file aware, if the file doesn't exists the text will be red, if it exists the text will be blue ! - Enter a full UNC path to the installation package, it must be an msi or msp installation package file and it must point to a UNC Path (example: \\ServerName\shareName\PackageName.msi) that is accessible to all the clients you are going to distribute the package. - This edit box is file aware, if the file doesn't exists the text will be red, if it exists the text will be blue ! - Enter a domain name, user name and password to run with, if you omit this options, DiDiDistribute (actualy PsExec) will use your current credentials, you must use an account with the rights to install on the workstations (best is to use domain admin). - Now you can select the suitable options from the options checkboxes list, this options are Psexec and Msiexec options, if you want to define a timeout for connecting to the remote machines you have to supply the timeout in seconds. - If you want to run an uninstall process for the selceted computers and package check the checkbox for uninstall, otherwise the default is to install the selected package - That's it, now you can click Execute to start the process, you can watch the progress inside to console view and save the results of the console view to a text file using the Save Log... button. - When the process is finished you will see the message "Execution Finished" at the console view.