Line 22: Change to your file server's hostname.Ĭreate a GPO to deploy Ninite Pro and Schedule Updating.Line 8: Change this to your Ninite installer folder.Line 3: Customize this list with the applications you wish to update.You need to customize this script to fit your environment. # Ninite Pro App Selection List # Set-Variable APPS -option constant -value '"7-Zip" QuickTime Acrobat Air Audacity Firefox Flash "Flash (IE)" "Google Drive" "Google Earth" GIMP Inkscape Java "KeePass 2" "Notepad++" Reader Shockwave SumatraPDF VLC' function updateOnsite ( $apps ) main The installer will prevent the creation of shortcuts and auto-update functions by the installed applications. In this script, Ninite is run in update-only mode for specifically listed applications. We will use a GPO to push NinitePro.exe and Ninite-Offsite.ps1 to C:\Windows\temp a little later. If it cannot access your file server, it updates from C:\Windows\temp\Ninite instead. If it can, it updates applications using the installer and cache on the server. In summary, it tests if it can connect to your file server,. The script below is what enables the magic. Ninite-Offsite.ps1 - PowerShell script for deployment.Reports\ - Directory writeable by Domain Computers group.Cache\ - Directory writeable by Domain Computers group.Your directory tree will look something like this: This is necessary so that computers can cache their downloads and save their reports. In that folder, you need two special directories: Cache and Reports which are writable by your Domain Computers Active Directory group. Configure your on-site cache and report folderįor your on-site cache to work via this method, you need to create a network folder which is accessible to the computers in your domain. Ninite will save a report for the computer to your server's Reports directory. The script checks for the availability of a local cache and if that's not available it updates without it.
From there a scheduled task runs daily to run the PowerShell script. To accomplish this, we deploy a PowerShell script and a copy of Ninite Pro to the computers' C:\Windows\Temp directory. When on-site, update from our cache on the LAN.The goal here is to cover two update scenarios: After some thinking I decided I wanted to get this working off-site so that when students take their laptops home over the summer, they can continue to receive updates.
This process uses a cache on our LAN to store updates and speed the whole process along. Recently we purchased Ninite Pro for our organization and have implemented silent application updating via a scheduled task with PowerShell. Tagged sysadmin deployment ninite powershell windows
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