Mozilla ESR disable autoupdate after is patched - how?

Question

I am patching Firefox to 31.6.0 ESR.  I want to disable auto update.

I have created the two files suggested by Mozilla local-settings.js and Mozilla.cfg.

I have tested them and they will disable auto update when placed under:

c:\program files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\pref\local-settings.js

c:\program files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Mozilla.cfg

So I know it works manually.

I even have a vbs script that can also copy these files to its right location.

The package by itself installs Firefox fine and puts all the files including the ones mentioned above under

C:\windows\software distribution\download\install (has all files including vbs script).

My question is: how do I configure it so that it runs the script or even just copies the two files to the right location after the package has been installed?

I configured the Package Boot Editor and added After applying package:

Program name: cscript

Command line: "install2.vbs" (yes, in quotes, also tried it without quotes)

Selected - Run program from package directory

There has to be a way to run this script via command line.  It does require admin rights to run the script from what I discovered.

Any ideas? Any samples of how you run a program from the command line and parameters used?

Thanks

Walter

jbaits · Accepted Answer

The way you currently have package boot configured it is trying to run cscript from the package directory which does not exist. You should set package boot to run cscript.exe from the system32 directory then include the parameters to run your script. The script will need to handle setting it's working directory properly.

Any commands run by package boot are executed as the system account so privileges should not be an issue.

I have several packages that run commands directly and the basic setup I usually use is to have package boot call cmd.exe from system32 and include /c in the parameters followed by the command I need to execute.