Rob,
Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately your suggestions do not meet the requirements:
There are presently 10 PCs in the department and I would not expect the pupils to understand the licencing issues, I do not believe that the school would agree to the software installed on all the PCs in the department and I'm sure the council's Internal Audit department would not approve of the situation.
Re/installing the software manually on the PCs each time they are replaced would take up a lot of time and is not part of our standard practice, we deploy software from various software vendors (including Microsoft, AutoDesk, IBM, Adobe, Apple, etc) to the PCs in the school on a regular basis and do not often come across a scenario where recent software can not be silently installed/deployed (even older software [designed for Windows 9x] from Microsoft, Apple and other vendors supported the practice).
Getting the InnoSetup silent install working, as I know it does for other software vendors, appears to be the best way forward and failing that, it will have to be a costly (time and effort) manual install, which causes delay for the users and prevents myself and other support staff from concentrating on other priorities.
As the setup.exe was created using innosetup (ie there is no 'third party', only the installer Roland/Cakewalk have chosen for users to install the software with) this should be an easy task. There is no 'hackware' or 'Ghost installs' involved. Silent installs / deployments (also known as Administrative, Quiet, Unattended, Automated, Network or Remote installs ) of software are current industry standard practice, with the majority of software vendors (including JRSoftware that created InnoSetup) supporting the practice. Microsoft themselves producing software to assist with enterprise deployment of Windows and application software (see Microsoft Deployment Toolset MDT at
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25175).
I resent the implication that I am trying to 'get around licencing issues' as this appears to indicate a view that the intention is to perform an illegal act of software piracy. I am not asking about licencing, I am not trying to ammend the installer or compromise the intellectual property in any way, shape or form. I'm just trying to install the software in the most efficient and economical method for my organisation, using industry recognised best practice.
Steven.