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Salman Arshad
Salman Arshad

Reputation: 272406

Silent installation of an MSI package

I have a MSI package that I need to install if the package is not already installed. Also I need to install it silently. The package prompts user for:

I need to override these two parameters using command line parameters or some other method. So how do I go about these two issues. I'll use VBScript for scripting.

Upvotes: 114

Views: 435130

Answers (3)

Nilay Thakkar
Nilay Thakkar

Reputation: 11

Open Command prompt in administrative mode and type following command.

Note: replace path with your own path to msi file.

msiexec /i "C:\(your_path)\(name_of_your_msi_file.msi)" /quiet /norestart /log "E:\(your_path)\installation.log"

you can check if any error has occured during installation in "installation.log" file

Upvotes: 0

Stein Åsmul
Stein Åsmul

Reputation: 42246

The proper way to install an MSI silently is via the msiexec.exe command line as follows:

msiexec.exe /i c:\setup.msi /QN /L*V "C:\Temp\msilog.log"

Quick explanation:

 /L*V "C:\Temp\msilog.log"= verbose logging
 /QN = run completely silently
 /i = run install sequence

There is a much more comprehensive answer here: Batch script to install MSI. This answer provides details on the msiexec.exe command line options and a description of how to find the "public properties" that you can set on the command line at install time. These properties are generally different for each MSI.

Upvotes: 24

Polynomial
Polynomial

Reputation: 28346

You should be able to use the /quiet or /qn options with msiexec to perform a silent install.

MSI packages export public properties, which you can set with the PROPERTY=value syntax on the end of the msiexec parameters.

For example, this command installs a package with no UI and no reboot, with a log and two properties:

msiexec /i c:\path\to\package.msi /quiet /qn /norestart /log c:\path\to\install.log PROPERTY1=value1 PROPERTY2=value2

You can read the options for msiexec by just running it with no options from Start -> Run.

Upvotes: 166

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