Creating the Program using SMS Package

Creating the Program

a. To gain access to the SMS Administrator Console, you will want to press "Start," then point to "All Programs," and then click "Systems Management Server." After this you will want to press on the "SMS Administrator Console."

b. Inside the left pane, you will need to expand the "Site Database," then expand "Packages," and then you will want to expand the Silverlight package you are using.

c. You will want to Right-click on "Programs," then press "New," and then press on "Program."

d. Within the "General" tab, you will want to enter in a name for the program which is specific.

e. Within the "Command line," you will want to put in the specific command line which is necessary once the program runs. The vast majority of Silverlight deployments will make use of either one of the following commands:

1. Silverlight.1.0.exe
2. Silverlight1.0.exe/q (this is the command for silent install, which I highly recommend)

g. Within the "Run" drop down menu, you will want to pick "Normal" to decide how the Setup menu will look whenever the program is initiated.

h. Inside the "After-running" drop down menu, you will next need to pick the option which is responsible for describing the actions which must be made once the program is finished. The setting which I recommend at this point is "No Action Required."

i. Press on the "Requirements" button. After you have done this, you will next need to put in the information for the Silverlight requirements which will be applied for this program.

You will want to make use of the drop down lists to figure out the needed space which is necessary for startup, as well as the total amount of time that is necessary to let the program run.

j. Now you will need to press the "Environment" menu. Within the "Program can run" drop down menu, you will want to pick "Whether or not a user is logged on." This will allow Silverlight to be installed in a manner which is silent as well as mandatory.

k. Within "Run mode," you will want to press the option which is responsible for describing the permission level which is needed for the user, and you will also need to pick "Run with administrative rights."

l. Once this is done, you will need to press the "Advanced" tab. Within "When this program is assigned to a computer," you will want to pick "Run once for the computer." Once this is done, you will simply want to press "OK" to save the program.

Picking the distribution servers for SMS

The next step you will need to follow is to pick the SMS servers that you would like to use for distribution. SMS will basically copy every file from the source folder for the package, and will be copied to a folder within the SMS distribution servers.

Setup can operate via these distribution servers in order to bring support to every user who is on the network. Picking the SMS distribution servers can be done in three easy steps:

a. Within the "SMS Administrator Console," under the left area within "Packages," you will want to right click on the SMS package that you picked for Silverlight. Once you have done this, you will next want to press Distribution points.

b. Under the "New Distributions Points Wizard" intro page, you will want to press next.

c. Within the "Copy Package" page, you will want to pick the distribution servers via the Distributed points list, and once you have done this, you will want to press "Finish." These are the basic steps which must be used in order to distribute Silverlight via SMS.