xcopy deployment

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lizii

At the moment my company have asked me to look into installations. We
use pure .NET applications and although i have looked into installer
programs (installshield...wise..etc) none of them are able to do
exactly what we want them to do - or at least not easily. So now i am
looking into the possibly of using an xcopy deployment. However - i
can find very little information about the major disadvantages of this
method.


Does anyone know of any good articles about the disadvantages (and
advantages) of xcopy deployment?



Thanks very much!
 
It might help to describe what you want to do. A large number of installs
aren't going to be xcopy installs anyway. You can't xcopy a shortcut to a
file on a system when you don't know where it's being installed; you can't
xcopy services, most COM servers, entries in Add/Remove Programs, a product
that clients want to install with group policy, a setup that requires UI
choices.
 
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