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Please add native catalog support for i2 Analyst's Notebook 10 for Windows, including automated version detection and packaging for deployment through Patch My PC Cloud / Microsoft Intune.
We currently deploy i2 Analyst's Notebook 10.1.2 through Patch My PC as a manually maintained custom application. Native catalog support would remove the need to manually obtain, package, detect, supersede, and maintain each new release.
i2 Analyst's Notebook is an enterprise visual-analysis application used by investigative and intelligence teams. According to i2 Group, Analyst's Notebook has been relied upon by more than 2,000 organizations worldwide.
The vendor distribution contains a Windows Installer package named:
i2 Analyst's Notebook 10.msi
i2 officially documents silent MSI installation. A suitable generic silent installation is:
msiexec /i "i2 Analyst's Notebook 10.msi" /qn /norestart
The MSI also supports customer-specific properties including:
INSTALLLEVEL
ADDLOCAL
I2LIC_SERVERS
I2LIC_BROADCASTS_ENABLED
These properties should not be hard-coded into the Patch My PC catalog package. They should remain configurable as optional customer-supplied installation arguments.
For example, our current deployment requires an INSTALLLEVEL setting and centralized license-server configuration, but those values are environment-specific.
The current vendor release is 10.1.2 and the product is a 64-bit Windows application. The vendor documents support for Windows 11 x64 and prerequisites including Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8, Microsoft Edge/WebView2, and the 64-bit Microsoft 365 Access Runtime.
The 10.1.2 release notes also mention a change to the certificate signing authority compared with earlier releases. Package validation should therefore use the current vendor signing information rather than assuming the certificate chain from older releases.
IMPORTANT DOWNLOAD NOTE:
i2 Group does not currently provide a public anonymous static installer URL for this commercial product. Customers with an active entitlement obtain release media through i2 Support. If Patch My PC requires a stable unauthenticated endpoint for automated catalog ingestion, coordination with i2 Group may therefore be required.
We would strongly prefer native Patch My PC catalog support over continuing to maintain this application manually as a Custom App.
