cisco collaboration cisco jabber for windows version

Continue/exit without waiting for the installation to complete.

Execute the Windows Installer with desirable options.Retrieve securely stored admin credentials.Decide under which conditions to proceed with the installation.Analyze the local registry to find the version code of a potentially existing installation of Cisco Jabber.Analyze the provided Cisco Jabber software package to determine the new version code.Using a Powershell logon script GPO we can check all the boxes: However, we do not want the upgrade mechanism to perform fresh installations if Cisco Jabber doesn't already exist locally. Once installed, we want upgrades to newer versions to be hands-off. In our case, for example, we want first-time installations to be performed manually by administrators. Finally, GPO software installation policies do not have a mechanism to test for up-to-date existing installations, outdated older existing installations, or missing installations of Cisco Jabber, and can therefore not provide different actions based on individual scenarios.Wrapping the CiscoJabberSetup.msi execution into msiexec.exe (instead of the crude 'double-click' installation method) provides yet more command-line options for the installation or upgrade.CiscoJabberSetup.msi actually has a lot of extremely useful ones, so using another mechanism would expand the available installation features greatly. Speaking of no command-line switches when using the GPO software installation preference.Since no command-line switch can be supplied via the GPO software installation, it must be run through an Orca transformation to eliminate all but the desired language code (for us that's '1033' for US English) to match the local settings. The CiscoJabberSetup.msi file is multi-language.The usually recommended solution to apply software installation settings via a Group Policy Object (GPO) poses additional challenges:

This challenge has remained unchanged for many years, so it stands to reason that Cisco is not inclined to improve this installation/update approach.

Cisco collaboration cisco jabber for windows version