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Patching Administrative Installations

If you have used the Register MSI Package method, when you registered the software that you now want to patch, proceed in the following way to patch an administrative installation using Network install procedures.

  1. Select the MSI item to be patched in the Software Package Library.
  2. Right-click the Procedures folder and select New, Added procedure with new files in the context menu.
  3. On the General tab, provide a name for the procedure. The task should be Configure, the OS should be Windows 32-bit.
  4. On the Added Files tab, browse to the .msp file. The type should be set to MSI file.
  5. On the bottom three tabs that open for MSI files, you should select MSI method to be Patch Administrative Installation on the General tab.

    The package field states $msi\… $msi expands to the path of the directory, into which an Administrative Installation of the current item once was made.

  6. Provide the name of the MSI file, which was used when originally registering the package.
  7. Click OK to finish registering the patch procedure.

Note: If you selected Use an administrative installation or Perform and use an administrative installation when registering the MSI package to be patched, you should use the browse button to the right of the Package field to point to the actual MSI file of the administrative installation.

Finally, execute the new configure procedure on the software delivery manager to apply the patch to the administrative installation