Deploying TrendMicro Worry-Free Security Services agent

a little tutorial to create a trendmicro-installer for macOS deployment - with pkgbuild (of course u can use any other tool)

Step 1: Downloading Installer Package

1. Go to the Trend Micro Security Website (with Safari)
2. Click Device and choose your Device Group
3. Click Add Devices and choose under Install to this Device -> Install
4. Next step click Download and download the package on your mac.

Step 2: Creating deploy script "Identifier.plist"

1. Go to the Trend Micro Security Website, click on Device and choose your Device Group
2. Click Add Devices again and choose under Download the Installer Package (Advanced) -> For Service Providers
3. Get your Identifier by clicking on the button Copy Identifier
4. Put the Identifier in a plist file. Replace "PutYourIdentifier" parameter with your Identifier. (Use my default plist file in the repo)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Identifier</key>
	<string>#PutYourIdentifier</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Step 3: Create a distributable package with pkgbuild (macOS inhouse tool)

1. first, we need the following directory tree:

e.g. Desktop
      └── TrendMicroAgent
                └── script
                      └── postinstall
    		└── ROOT
        	     └── var
			  └── tmp
				└── TrendMicro
					├── Identifier.plist
					└── WFBS-SVC_Agent_Installer.pkg

2. We need the postinstall file. This file ensures that the WFBS-SVC_Agent_Installer.pkg is installed

#!/bin/sh
## postinstall

installer -pkg /var/tmp/TrendMicro/WFBS-SVC_Agent_Installer.pkg -target /

exit 0		## Success
exit 1		## Failure

3. We have the tree and we have also the postinstall file, the WFBS-SVC_Agent_Installer.pkg and the Identifier.plist. Put the files in the appropriate directories. Now, ensures that the right permissions are granted.

cd TrendMicroAgent
sudo chown -R root:wheel *
chmod a+x scripts/

4. Now run the following command (while you are the TrendMicroAgent directory)

pkgbuild --root ROOT/ --identifier de.salihzengin.trendmicro --version 1.0 --nopayload --scripts scripts/ "TrendMicroDeploy.pkg"

A few seconds later, you get the following output:

pkgbuild: Adding top-level postinstall script pkgbuild: Wrote package to TrendMicroDeploy.pkg

You are done! Finally you can test your package.

(of course, you could sign your package with productsign)

productsign --sign "Developer ID Installer: Your Developer Name (1A2B3C4D5E)" TrendMicroDeploy.pkg TrendMicroDeploy_signed.pkg

Note: It could be that the application only starts, if the Mac has been restarted before.