Q:

Are there any tools to automate software installations?

I was wondering if there are any tools to automate installation of software on computers. What I have in mind is to place the installers in a Folder and kind of record their installation once. Later I want to be able to just copy the installer folder and playback the recorded steps so they are automatically installed. This will save me huge amount of time also ideally I would want some tool which is smart enough to open console etc and type commands which are required during some installations.
Is anyone aware of any tool like this?
Thanks

A:

There are tools such as Chef, Ansible, Puppet which manage installations like this through Powershell, I know Chef has Windows Powershell support but whether it will solve your specific use case is down to exactly what you need to have done. 

