Conditional Installation

[marshalex]

Hi All

Was wondering if anyone knew of a way of scripting an installation so that if for example a machine is 32 bit it will call a script to install the 32 bit software and if it isn't will run the installer for the 64 bit software? I'm trying to make a script to deploy lync at work and have got a bit stuck with this part. I thought about trying to do it using wmic an the OSArchitecture option in the os get query, however this doesn't exist in windows xp pro sp3. Any suggestions/resources welcome!

thanks

[jim]

I believe the easiest way is to check for a C:\Program Files (x86)\ directory - if one is present, it's an x64 system.

[marshalex]

I believe the easiest way is to check for a C:\Program Files (x86)\ directory - if one is present, it's an x64 system.

Thats what i've done but using the syswow64 folder. thought there might be a 'cleverer' way of doing it using wmi but that seems to have done the job!

[babaracus]

You can also pull the OS caption string from WMI and deduce it from that.