Administrative installation image
You can perform an administrative installation of IBM® i Access for Windows to create an administrative source image. You can put the image onto the network from which your users can install the application, or you can make it the source of a distribution package if you are using a deployment system.
An administrative installation does not actually install the application on the target computer; it just spans the source files out from the cabinet files to a network location. The resulting image is called an administrative image. An administrative image is functionally identical to the original, compressed image from which it was generated.
You can upgrade an administrative image to a newer
service level by applying Windows Installer
patches to it. Then you can instruct your users to reinstall from
the upgraded administrative image to get service pack updates. Alternatively,
you can redeploy the installation package if you are using a software
deployment method. Any new client installations from the upgraded
administrative image automatically include the updated version of IBM i
Access for Windows.
Note: Administrative
installations provide a function called Run from source, which lets
client users run features directly from the administrative image. IBM i
Access for Windows does not support the
Run from source feature of Windows Installer.