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Run an MSI on a remote machine in TFS 2015

I have a TFS 2015 build that copies a MSI generated during said build to a remote machine (i.e. not the build agent/build server).

How can I get that MSI to be ran on the remote machine by TFS?

Solution

  • If the build account has access to the remote machine you could potentially execute the msi remotely via psexec. 

    PsExec.exe \\RemoteComputer -d -s cmd /c "msiexec.exe /I "drive:\path\to\yourmsi.msi" /quiet /norestart"

    Full example can be found here: https://www.itdroplets.com/run-msi-psexec/