Feature-Request: system-wide silent install for managed (university/school etc.) clients

[Lukas-UAUX]

As both students and employees (teacher, researchers etc.) of an educational institution can, want and should use eduroam it would be a massive help if the application could be installed via a deployment / software management system as this is the preferred and often only way to install software on managed hardware of those employees (as it is with us).

For this to work as expected the app needs to be

a) Installed as a regular, system wide application ( ege. in C:\ProgramFiles ) that can be updated and removed (centrally/once)

and

b) Installable silently in a administrative context (ege. via a silent switch like /S or from an .msi via msiexec)

Could such an deploy method be implemented - or is it already available and I just have not found it?

I could get it to work somewhat like it is now - but uninstalling or even patching can be - depending on the device - an absolute nightmare with dozens of copies of the app in the users AppData - which are not easily reachable with common management agents / systems - and keeping an inventory/overview with multiple versions multiplied by our device and user count into thousands of possible versioning constellations is near impossible.

Especially as we are heavily looking into pseudo credentials via geteduroams let's wifi this would really help us out...

[Lukas-UAUX]

Thinking about it - for starters a flag to not auto install into the users AppData would already help a lot - with this i can scramble together my own installation method for dropping the .exe into ProgramFiles together with a shortcut or a config file with this flag enabled. The notification about the expiry would probably be missing but that is not so problematic

[jornane]

I did make a start with this work, but it was not completed or tested, as there didn't seem to be interest at the time. But this is how far we got:

The app does currently detect if it's running from C:\Program Files\geteduroam\geteduroam.exe, and if this is the case, it will do the following:

• It will not install in AppData
• The option to uninstall will be greyed out
• Scheduled tasks for renewal will point to the file in ProgramFiles

When testing it out now, I did find two bugs as well; it does create a shortcut to the AppData version, which of course doesn't work. Same for file association to .eap-config

We can fix those bugs in the next release and later provide an installation option for system-wide installation.