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Silent Deployment for business environments.

Hi,

We are a small MSP and are looking at purchasing a business license to apply NextDNS for our clients and were about to pull the trigger, but wanted to test the NextDNS client first, which we assumed would be simple to deploy like every other agent/client but that does not seem to be the case. We also reached out to sales and have not received a response for over a month now.

We just need instructions on how to silently deploy the NextDNS application with a specific configuration. Ideally, we could select an option that would not allow people to disable this as well.

I have found silent install options for the CLI, but that does not appear to have an interface and does not show up in the programs list after completion. The syntax is also strange and fails unless using a simple "install" command.

Any assistance with this would be appreciated.

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    • Technical Analyst
    • rjh0522
    • 3 yrs ago
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    I was able to get the CLI install to work once I was able to decipher how it is meant to be done. The instructions aren't great. It does appear to be working as intended however.  I was also able to create an automate deployment script in case anyone needs it.

      • NextDNs
      • 3 yrs ago
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      rjh0522 any feedback on how we could improve the instructions is welcome.

    • s_pere
    • 3 yrs ago
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    Hi rjh0522

    I have the same query on how to do it silently on Mac and Win OS

    Would you be able to direct me to the syntax or if you could share your script too would be great!

     

    Thank  you for posting this question and sharing!

    S.

      • Technical Analyst
      • rjh0522
      • 3 yrs ago
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      s_pere You can follow this... You can use 7zip command line extraction to extract the zip file to the desired location,. You need 7za.exe.

      Download zip file to C:\Program Files\NextDNS

      Extract zip with command below

      C:\temp\7za.exe x "C:\program files\NextDNS\nextdns_13310.zip" -o"c:\program files\NextDNS""

      Paste the following into batch file.

      net stop nextdns
      "C:\Program Files\NextDNS\nextdns.exe" install ^
        -config 1234xx^
        -report-client-info ^
        -auto-activate
      net start nextdns

      • s_pere
      • 3 yrs ago
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      rjh0522 Awesome, thanks!

      • s_pere
      • 3 yrs ago
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      rjh0522 Thanks for sharing this man. I tried to run this through Datto RMM but it doesnt seem to execute itself and comes up with no errors too. If anyone has ideas on why this might be (when on an RMM tool) please let me know. Thank you!

      • Technical Analyst
      • rjh0522
      • 3 yrs ago
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      s_pere 

      Did you download/copy 7za and nextdns CLI to the given locations for the provided commands to work?

      Please lay out your steps

    • Alex_MARN
    • 3 yrs ago
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    Awesome

    Is it possible to have also a silent install on Android ?

      • Technical Analyst
      • rjh0522
      • 3 yrs ago
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      Alex MARN 

      Unfortunately, it doesnt seem like it is possible via the NextDNS client.

      It does appear to be possible however to configure DNS via Android Enterprise management. This might not work with NextDNS Android app, but if you setup your own DNS server with something like PiHole on a VPS, you could point that the NextDNS to do the filtering.

    • PCSPEZIALIST
    • 10 mths ago
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    I suppose this is the guide you are looking for: https://help.nextdns.io/t/83hsj8t/windows-client-mass-deployment-guide.

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