Deploy Xibo client to over 300(!) PCs

So, you want to install the application automatically with out you actually setting up the install on the 300 machines?
and then do the client config manually?

This is correct.

Hi George,

Are these clients (all 300 of them) domain computers or stand alone clients?
If they're domain computer it should be possible to deploy the Xibo client with a Group Policy.

is this what your looking for, or have i misunderstood you question.

Hi Robert.

No. The PCs are stand alone in their workgroup, because I want auto login.

George,

If you want auto-login you can also use a domain pc. There are only a view regfile to add and you'll have your own auto login.
That I've build it, in our case a domain pc was prefered because of our WSUS server.

Auto-login domain pc:

Open te following registery key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

And make te following new STRING VALUE's (REG_SZ):

AutoAdminLogin > value=1 (enabled) value=0 (disables)
DefaultUserName > value=yourdefaultuser
DefaultPassword > value=userpassword
DefaultDomainName > value=yourdomainname

note that the DefaultPassword key has a value! If not the AutoAdminLogin value will automatically change to 0.

This specific account is in our case a user profile that has 0,0 rights and only is able to run the Xibo client.
I hope this will workout for you.

Thank you Robert. Very useful, but I cannot use it in my company. Xibo is for commercial reasons and
I cannot put it on the domain for security and standard reasons :'(

I was thinking something like a script or something that it will trigger the registration command.

George, I don't see why you couldn't build a script to copy the MSI from a remote location, run it and then overwrite the app.config file with one you had hand built to contain all the necessary options.

No idea how you would get that script to execute without going to the physical machine (not without group policy anyway)

Hi Dan.
That's a perfect idea. How can I change the app.config? Is the one in here?

C:\Program Files\Xibo Player\XiboClient.exe.config

and what are the parameters?

Thank you in advance.

I recommend you set up one client exactly how you want (including configuring the options), look in the user data directory for the user config, compare that to the XiboClient.exe.config file to get the changed keys.

There will be a key for hardware key that should be left blank (it should then recalculate).

This is only an idea that might work - i've not tried it :-)

Hi Dan.

This one is not working. I 'll see what I 'll do.

Thank you all!