Installation of third party products using ERA

[svlo531 0]

Hi guys, 

I'm very new to ERA v6 and I was wondering if it's possible to deploy 3rd party softwares (.exe) silently to endpoints without creating .msi packages? Any of your help is much appreciated! 

[Cousin Vinny 6]

You can, kinda sorta.

You can create a client task in ERA that executes a command on the remote host.  Put the MSI on a network share, execute a command on the remote host to fire it off or write an installation script and execute that.

While you can deploy and update ESET software and ERA agents through client tasks, there is no built-in functionality that is specifically for deploying 3rd party software.

I would suggest using Group Policy or something like PDQ Deploy instead.

Edited September 7, 2017 by Cousin Vinny