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<main> <article class="userContent"> <p>How Push Deploy works<br><br>1. ADMIN$ access to the remote<br><br>2. .NET v3.5 installed on the remote machine<br><br>3. WMI access to the remote machine.<br><br><br>Admin$ is used to create a remote folder and copy our self-extracting exe which contains all the files needed to run.<br>Via the admin$ (which connects to the windows folder on the remote machine), we use a file check for a specific file where .NET 3.5 should be located. This tells us if that requirement is met.<br>We use WMI to create a process on the remote machine that runs the self-extracted file we copied. This does the extract. <br>Based on the push utility, WMI is used again to create the process to run the given collection.<br>WMI is used over and over at different intervals to check if the process is still running.<br>Once it is not running, Admin$ is used again to pull back the given output file (cdf, sdf, hdf) for the push type.</p> </article> </main>