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    <p>I've worked for both ISV's (12 years) and Enterprise IT departments (5 years) so I understand the nature of your question. </p> <p>At a minimum, you need to create an installer that supports silent (non-interactive) installation, upgrading, and uninstall. You can technically do this using a wide variety of tools but your customers are going to prefer you create an MSI. They prefer this because Windows Installer (.MSI) provides a standardized mechanism with consistent command lines, logging, transactional installation (rollback changes on failure), is rich in metadata ( observable; no black box) and is transformable ( end user can modify the MSI using an onion skin approach to do things like change the name or location or existence of a shortcut, install a service using a specific username/password and so on ).</p> <p>So as long as you are creating properly authored MSI's you can ignore the deployment method to a certain degree because you are abstracted from it. The trick is to understand the deployment requirements of your application ( easy in your example) and how to implement these requirements in Windows Installer (a somewhat steep learning curve). </p> <p>I personally use InstallShield and Windows Installer XML (WiX). I also have written a tool called IsWiX (open source on CodePlex) that provides an InstallShield like authoring experience on top of WiX. The scenario you describe can easily be achieved using InstallShield LE (Limited Edition) which is free to Visual Studio customers. More complicated scenarios require more knowledge and advanced tools.</p>
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    1. COGreat reply - thanks. I'll use it as a starting point for researching the things you've mentioned in greater detail. I accept that creating an MSI is abstracted from the deployment process, but it'll be useful to know roughly how MSIs are installed across networks. Does there need to be some kind of central server, and does it have to run a particular OS? Do the majority of enterprises already have the required set-up to accept MSIs? Thanks again.
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    2. COAny OS since Windows 95 and NT 4.0 can handle MSIs. There are many tools to handle distribution and there can be one or many servers depending on the size of the enterprise. Google "SCCM". Please accept this answer.
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    3. COI'd be happy to. Thanks again!
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