nonu

We are in the process of rolling the Vmware View 3.0 across a set of pilot users, during the deployment we want to depoy agents on the Virtual Desktops.

Since this is going to be the pilot phase we want to disable all features which agent provides, Like USB Redirection,Printing and also VDM secure authentication, therefore I have been trying to customize the install by extracting the package using "/a " Switch and then using Install tailor from Wise to create the .mst file, when I created the transform file I disabled all the features mentioned above but when I would run the actuall install of agent using the transform file, The "Vmware View Composer Agent" feature Would still stay enabled, since we were not using the View composer we did not wanted to have the agent install as well, All my efforts to have it disabled using a Transform file went in vain, until one day I decided to use orca to modify the extracted .msi.

Once I had the View Agent MSI opened in orca I started to ponder where to disabled the feature, after lot of investigation and browsing thought various sites over internet ,I finally figured out how to do it, when in orca Find the "Property" table and check the "INSTALLLEVEL" field, as you can see the "INSTALLLEVEL" value is set to 100.



So in order to disable the features which you don't want to be installed, go to the "Feature" table in the Msi, as you can see the feature table lists all the features available or being installed as part of this .msi, and every feautre has been assigned a attribute called "Level" which will always be a value less than the "INSTALLLEVEL" value for it to be installed as part of msi.

So to disable the feature like "GINA", "USB", "THINPRINT" just edit the "LEVEL" field and increase it's value to anything higher than 100, which is the value for the "INSTALLLEVEL", I increased it to "101" and tadaaa.

Now when you will run the .msi, all the features below show up as disabled, itself, no need to add aditional transforms or anything else.



Thanks,

Nonu

PS: We tried to contact Vmware and help us to Customize the install, but Vmware said we will help you but we don't support cutomized install, so procedure above use it at your own risk.