Well, I was going to post this as a comment over on Robert Accettura’s Fun With Wordage blog. It’s really long. So now it’s here, with a link :-) (Since I remembered my password to this blog and have a bit of time…I suppose I’ll have to post some more now, it’s been a while!)
Read this post first as this is a reply (originally written as a comment on his site, addressed to Robert directly, and moved directly here due to length):
Interesting post, given that I spent a decent chunk of time investigating similar solutions for the church where I’m the Network and Systems Manager! I found some good info, not relating to updates necessarily, but on MSI installs in particular since I want to deploy with Active Directory.
It took me some Googling, but I ended up at a really useful page called Firefox:2.0 Institutional Deployment. I tried implementing nearly all of the MSI-related options on this page today to some extent. The documentation of details (an FAQ) for each solution is pretty sparse in general so I had to test to see it in action.
The most fully developed solution for deployment seems to come from Front Motion, with their two releases, Mozilla Firefox MSI, which is an AD-deployable MSI of the straight Firefox install (just a repackage), although it has some really nice features, such as (pulled from their site): (more…)