To detect the OS, I take advantage of the fact that different OS's have different environment vars set. Sometimes I use the VER command and FIND command.
"OS"="Windows_NT" on any NT or higher box.
"ProgramFiles" is set on 2000 or higher
IF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ECHO This is 95/98/me
IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ECHO This is NT4/2000/XP/2003
IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT IF "%ProgramFiles%"=="" ECHO This is NT4
IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT IF NOT "%ProgramFiles%"=="" ECHO This is 2000 or higher
I am not familair with SMS client, but since it is a Microsoft product, I assume it has an .MSI based install? Try this: (QB! = only show a progress bar and disable the cancel button)
MSIEXEC.EXE /I /QB! SMSClient.MSI
or
SETUP.EXE /QB!
To see if an app is already installed, I usually look for it's EXE, but this has problems if you don't know where it's installed (e.g. the user ran setup and changed the installation folder to 
or something)
IF EXIST "C:\Program Files\SMS Client\SMSClient.EXE" ECHO Looks like it's installed.
Also use the FIND command and check the return code to see inside files. If FIND returns 0 the text was found.
VER > "%TEMP%\OSVER.TXT"
FIND "Microsoft Windows XP" "%TEMP%\OSVER.TXT"
IF "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" ECHO This is XP
IF NOT "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" ECHO This NOT XP
DEL "%TEMP%\OSVER.TXT"
To detect the OS, I take advantage of the fact that different OS's have different environment vars set. Sometimes I use the VER command and FIND command.
"OS"="Windows_NT" on any NT or higher box.
"ProgramFiles" is set on 2000 or higher
IF NOT "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ECHO This is 95/98/me
IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" ECHO This is NT4/2000/XP/2003
IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT IF "%ProgramFiles%"=="" ECHO This is NT4
IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT IF NOT "%ProgramFiles%"=="" ECHO This is 2000 or higher
I am not familair with SMS client, but since it is a Microsoft product, I assume it has an .MSI based install? Try this: (QB! = only show a progress bar and disable the cancel button)
MSIEXEC.EXE /I /QB! SMSClient.MSI
or
SETUP.EXE /QB!
To see if an app is already installed, I usually look for it's EXE, but this has problems if you don't know where it's installed (e.g. the user ran setup and changed the installation folder to or something)
Help w/ batch file for SMS 2003
Also, does anybody know how to install the SMS Advance client, Legacy client & DSclient w/o human intervention?
Thanks in advance!
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