Take the 2-minute tour ×  Is it possible / how to install the
bacula windows client on remote Windows XP or 7 machines?  They
are all within a domain. Would I need a custom installer, or is
there a way to push out the standard installer?  share|improve
this question can the installer be made to run silenty? –  tony
roth May 31 '11 at 19:09  2 Answers 2  I have done this very
recently to push an update out for a few thousands clients. Yes,
you need a custom installer to do this. The 'silent' install is
not quite so silent and is prone to erroring, particularly where
an existing deployment already is available.  Another big
problem you'll have is silent installs will generate a 32 byte
random string as the password, the standard installer offers no
easy way to avoid this.  To solve this I created a silent
installer which took arguments to set a specific director and
password. I also squashed some of the bugs pertaining to
existing deployments being upgraded.  All in all - without
altering the windows installer