[mappu]

This is a little bit surprising to me, at $DAYJOB i had some requests for an MSI installer. I knew there's some AD/GPO features or whatever but your level of seriousness here is unexpected.

Is it really easier to install compared to an exe installer (say nsis / inno-based)? How so?

[mavhc]

Way easier with the default tools. Companies with money will buy sccm etc. But for those orgs without, MSI or writing a script are the only default options. And scripts are unreliable

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Imagine the difference between software distributed as a tarball and the binary package. Both totally work, but one is so much easier to deploy in bulk. (This is obviously a very loose analogy, but I think it's roughly correct)

[mixmastamyk]

Exe installers support unattended, headless installs with a command line switch.

[mavhc]

But how you do run that command only once on every computer? Including ones that are currently not in the building, or on.

[mixmastamyk]

Same way as anything, use group policy or a login script that checks first.

[mavhc]

But how do you know if it's installed correctly?

[mixmastamyk]

What does correctly mean? On windows usually a registry key is checked.