MSI Installer for JMP on Windows

[AutoChipmunk474]

What inspired this wish list request?

Silent installation of JMP using DSC tools like Ansible, Chef, SCCM, GPO, fail with an InstallShield error. While the .iss file is a neat feature, InstallShield installs of JMP will fail using these methods.

What is the improvement you would like to see?

The ability to silent install JMP repeatedly with DSC tools

Why is this idea important?

IT departments are increasingly using DevOps tools to automate their environments and deployments. Ensuring compatibility with such package managers like Chocolatey or SCCM would be a huge benefit. Using a MSI installer would do that, I believe.

[PoynomialCrow34]

Came here to suggest the same thing. 

[friedrich]

Hello,

I also have the same demand from my IT department. It would be a nice improvement when one need to deploy JMP on many computers.

[JR-MAI]

.msi installers are industry standard and make enterprise deployment of software much simpler for IT departments. The current methods for silent install/uninstall of JMP are incredibly cumbersome and difficult to automate.

[LocalPeccary666]

I'm joining this thread to encourage JMP to develop a MSI for deploying their software.  

[tjohnsoncurevo]

Please allow us as administrators the ability to deploy this app with real-world, working automation, including but not limited to .msi installer builds.

Simply put, we have no desire to sit in front of a display to install apps, nor do it remotely, and ad-hoc installations do nothing but waste our time. Deployment methodologies to do this legwork for us has been around for a couple of decades now, so why any vendor refuses to leverage value-enhancing tools and utilities which only better the experience from soup to nuts is just beyond the pale.

There is a severe need (and desire) by administrators to actually administer the product they are ultimately responsible for maintaining, both efficiently and accurately. Not being provided proper tools by the vendor to do exactly that, in this year of 2024, is more or less of a punch to the face. This does not fall squarely on JMP's lack of functionality as this problem is particularly endemic to IT in general. Just give us the tools and we'll make it a success.