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RE: Possible to create Cisco VPN Client package?

miahmichno — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:23:51 GMT

I have currently created this using a combination of PTS and batch scripts.

PTS:

/Run %comspec% /c MsiExec.exe /uninstall {3E5562ED-69AB-4CEC-91E2-64E18EC5ACC6} /qn
/InstallPackage \\prism\files\installs\CiscoVPN\VPNCleanup.pwc

/Run %comspec% /c \\prism\Files\Installs\CiscoVPN\vpn-Install.bat
/InstallPackage \\prism\files\installs\CiscoVPN\vpn-IT.pwc

PWC files simply copy the profiles to the needed locations so that VPN is preconfigured.

vpn-install.bat:

@echo off
rmdir "c:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\Profiles" /S /Q
md c:\temp
xcopy \\server\share c:\temp\CiscoVPN\ /H /E
cls
echo Installing Cisco Virtual Private Network for Employees
"c:\temp\CiscoVPN\vpnclient_setup.msi" /qn
RMDIR "c:\temp\CiscoVPN" /S /Q

Hope this helps :-)

RE: Possible to create Cisco VPN Client package?

martyy — Tue, 30 May 2006 09:00:39 GMT

This did work for me as well. Just want to share that when the VPN client binds with the adapter the network connection is lost temporarily. Thanks, I really appreciate these forums.

RE: Possible to create Cisco VPN Client package?

New Boundary Support — Thu, 25 May 2006 09:01:45 GMT

New Boundary Support would also be very interested in hearing if anyone has had success packaging the Cisco VPN client!

We have worked with a few customers on the Cisco VPN client and haven't had success getting a Prism-created package to work when moved from the system it was built on to another system with the same OS and same network card. Without doing major clean-up on the package, it would knock the system off the network. We were able to clean entries out of the package to prevent it from disabling the network settings on the target, but this resulted in the VPN client not functioning.

We were able to successfully push the VPN command-line setup out through a Prism Channel as a Command Task. Set the Task to run under the context of a domain admin.

REM run Cisco VPN msi installation

REM qb!- no cancel button, no dialogs

msiexec /i \\server\share\ciscovpn\vpnclient_en.msi /qb!- REBOOT=Suppress

Possible to create Cisco VPN Client package?

martyy — Thu, 25 May 2006 08:56:46 GMT

Has anyone had any success in building a Cisco VPN Client package? Not all of our machines are similar and I was wondering if the differents NICS would be a problem with the VPN binding to the NIC?