How to Extract an .MSI From a VirtualBox .EXE for Use With SCCM/Intune – (Short)

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If you ever want to distribute Oracle VirtualBox through Intune or SCCM, here’s how you can get an MSI which will make the process a lot easier. Click Windows Hosts to download a Windows copy of VirtualBox. Now that we’re in the downloads over here, let’s go back up one folder and then we’re going to right-click downloads while holding SHIFT. We’re going to select “Open PowerShell window here”, we’re going to do quick “dir” to show where we are… there’s our .exe.

So what I’m about to show you is that you can start typing “Virtual” for example, press Tab and it auto-completes like this, but instead of just running it, we’re going to add a flag here, we’re going to say Extract, and this little pop-up appears. So now to get to this folder, let’s press Windows Key + R and here we can type %LocalAppData%. This is a variable that when you enter it, it will give you the exact path to the local folder within AppData. I’m going to press ENTER and the folder comes up as expected. So I’m going to go to the Temp folder, and what do you know, right here, there’s an actual .msi file.

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