Network (Admin) Installations

Administrative Installation Mode is a type of .msi installation which only causes an uncompressed copy of the original installation to be generated to a specified location (TARGETDIR). It does not install applications, it creates another installation.

The installation’s media (deployable files) is unpacked into a subfolder beneath the regenerated .msi file, rather than stored in external .cab files or in .cab files embedded within the .msi file itself. The resultant folder structure created resembles that which a (Typical) local deployment would create by default.

Administrative installations do not become installed onto the computer which spawned it. They only transform the source installation into an uncompressed variant of itself during this process.