Onedrive for Business’s client, the new Next Generation Sync client, is awesome. Obviously.<\/p>\n
So you want it on your devices, but Microsoft distributes it as .exe. Nasty, because I want to manage Windows 10 as mobile devices through Intune, and that only allowes me to distribute as MSI.<\/p>\n
I created an MSI for Onedrive for Business’s Next Generation Client using Advanced Installer<\/a>. Because I’m not allowed to redistribute Microsoft’s .exe, this MSI downloads the .exe from Microsoft’s website<\/a>, it uses \/silent and \/takeover as installation switches.<\/p>\n This is the installer that self-downloads Onedrive NGen:\u00a0OnedriveNGSC.msi<\/a>\u00a0(right click, save as).<\/p>\n Optionally, you can change the URL from which the .exe installer is downloaded by supplying downloadURI as parameter to the MSI. (e.g. msiexec \/i OnedriveNGSC.msi downloadURI=”http:\/\/www.example.com\/file.exe”)<\/p>\n The MSI is an empty placeholder for the following Powershell script:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Onedrive for Business’s client, the new Next Generation Sync client, is awesome. Obviously. So you want it on your devices, but Microsoft distributes it as .exe. Nasty, because I want to manage Windows 10 as mobile devices through Intune, and that only allowes me to distribute as MSI. I created an MSI for Onedrive for … Continue reading Deploying the new Onedrive Next Generation Sync client as MSI through Intune to Windows 10<\/span> \nParam(\n$downloadURI\n)\n\nfunction runProcess ($cmd, $params, $windowStyle=1) {\n $p = new-object System.Diagnostics.Process\n $p.StartInfo = new-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo\n $exitcode = $false\t\n $p.StartInfo.FileName = $cmd\n $p.StartInfo.Arguments = $params\n $p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = $False\n $p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = $True\n $p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $True\n $p.StartInfo.WindowStyle = $windowStyle; #1 = hidden, 2 =maximized, 3=minimized, 4=normal\n $null = $p.Start()\n $output = $p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd()\n $exitcode = $p.ExitCode\n $p.Dispose()\t\n $exitcode\n $output\n}\n\n#download the client\n$exePath = Join-Path $Env:Temp "onedriveNGSC.exe"\ntry{\n\t\tinvoke-webrequest $downloadURI -OutFile $exePath -ErrorAction Stop\n}catch{\n\t\tThrow "Failed to download the installer from $downloadURI"\n}\n\n$res = runProcess $exePath "\/silent \/takeover"\n\n#check if return code is 0\nif(0 -ne $res[0]){\n\t\tThrow "Failed to install client: $($res[0]) $($res[1])"\n}\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"