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AIEIT
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6 months ago

Meta Quest Link - Can't be deployed due to no offline installer & no working silent install flags

Our organization is unable to package and Deploy Meta Quest Link to our hundreds of staff PCs because of the way the installer was built, this has been an ongoing issue for years and needs to be addressed.


The Meta Quest Link application does not have an offline installer, the installer simply acts as a downloader for the application, which is already problematic, but to make matters worse:

There is no fully silent uninstall flags. Using /unattended does not completely work as an interface will still open, and it will also still sometimes require user input. Try packaging this program for deployment with Intune, and you will soon realize that there are two major issues:

A regular system context install will fail because it opens a GUI that requires input under the system user so the person using the PC wont actually see the prompt to click anything. And, a user context install wont work unless the user has admin rights.

To make matters worse, the online install greatly slows down deployment, we store all of our packages locally on our server and pushing an application out to hundreds of PCs. But having hundreds of PCs downloading the same 2GB install file slows the network down considerably.

 

Are there no solutions for this? I can see that people have been complaining about this issue for over 6 years.

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  • pablo.623664's avatar
    pablo.623664
    Honored Guest
    2 months ago

    I am truly amazed this is still a thing.
    We have managed to get it going using 3rd party tools to take care of some of the issues combinded with some 'hacky' script logic.

    I was able to forget about it for the last 2 years until the latest update came about and wreaked havoc on the 400 or so comps we have it installed on.

    I've had to do a deep dive into this to get it working again, but it is all very hacky and surely Meta must realise that providing an enterprise delivery method is crucial for uptake (or at the very least - keeping me sane).

    I work at a university where this is used in teaching and flaky installs like this are more so getting put on a 'not suitable for deployment' list.

    It is a lot of work to maintain.

    A silent install that can run from system account and a way for us to automate updates is all we ask. 

    meta - please divert one million dollars from your AI projects and give it to me so I can give you a solution.