Client Deployment Assistant

Client Deployment Assistant (CDA) is a wizard that assists with the deployment of 1E clients, guiding you through common settings for clients and deployments. CDA is available as a zip file that you can download from the 1E Support Portal.

You can use the wizard to do the following:

• Create a MST transform file for each MSI containing your chosen settings. The wizard creates an answer file that records the chosen settings (the wizard uses a template answer file that controls the default settings seen in the wizard).

• Create a text file that contains the command-line for deploying each MSI.

• Optionally allow deployment of an MSP patch file for each MSI. You can download the latest Accumulated Hotfix MSP for each client from the 1E Support Portal. The zip that you download may already contain an MSP file for each client. You should remove this if you have alternate methods of deploying patches.

• Optionally connect to Configuration Manager to perform the following:

  • Create applications and packages.

  • Create deployments and collections for the applications.

  • Distribute source files to Distribution Points.

    If you are using Configuration Manager, you must run the wizard on a computer that has the Configuration Manager console installed. Windows ADK (with WinPE add-on) is also required locally if CDA is used to configure a deployment of PXE Everywhere.