AccountRight release August 3rd - what you need to know

Hey Joe!

So, I battled with this yesterday. The new installers “-allusers” and “-silent” flags are not working as you'd usually expect from a normal installer MSI, EXE or otherwise. I also don’t want uses to install the product in AppData and manage the app themselves aka using the “-silent” parameter.

Long story short, we use PDQ connect currently to manage all app installs and we are ESS8 compliant so no user can install any app themselves. I figured out yesterday EVEN logged in as a LOCAL ADMIN on a workstation I STILL had to elevate a (right click open as admin) CMD/Powershell window to use the -allusers command. Running PDQ as normal “Local System” did not work. So I wrote two packages:

• One uninstalls the old version and copies the “MYOB_AccountRight_Setup_2026.6.exe” to the users’ workstation to “C:\PDQConnect\MYOB”. (This file could be hosted on a share if you like)

• The second runs the following script on a Jumpbox/utility VM with a workstation admin logged in you could do it en masse with many different tools in your org:
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$ComputerName = "COMPUTERNAME.domain.doman"

 

$Session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $ComputerName

 

Invoke-Command -Session $Session -ScriptBlock {

Set-Location "C:\PDQConnect\MYOB\"

 

Write-Host "Starting installation"

 

Start-Process ".\MYOB_AccountRight_Setup_2026.6.exe" `

-ArgumentList "-allusers" `

-Wait `

-PassThru

}

 

Remove-PSSession $Session

This runs the powershell script on the VM, which in turn ps-session’s into each pc and then runs the installer in an already elevated session. Basically, the EXE is broken or written in a way to not operate as a “True” all user/silent install.