Silent Install Not Running
Submitted by camerons on 15 July, 2008 - 15:07.
I'm running DS6.9 and am attempting to push out an msi. If I run the msi normally, the installer will load, follow onscreen instructions and it loads.
I've created a blank job and added a Run Script task in the script window I've put msiexec /quiet /i \server\share\application.msi
Script Run Location = On the client computer
Client Run Enviroment = Production with Default (local system account) and Script Window = hidden
I've also tried, but I get the same result
msiexec /quiet /i \server\share\application.msi
msiexec /qn /i \server\share\application.msi
msiexec /qb /i \server\share\application.msi
msiexec /i \server\share\application.msi /quiet
msiexec /i \server\share\application.msi /qn
msiexec /i \server\share\application.msi /qb
I've also tried specifying a user account but receive invalid H:\ for that.
The msiexec command loads on the task manager of the machine that the program will be installed it, but its smaller then usual and and doesn't use any cpu %. It just sits in task manager until you forcibly kill msiexec.
Normally the install takes like 1min or so.
I should also say that if I remove the silent options the installer loads without issue
Hoping somebody might be able to tell me what's wrong it would be greatly appreciated.
Silent Install
This is running fine with me:
But then again the package is copied to the local machine and then ran from there.
I am not sure if you just miss typed the line
I noticed that you had put \server\share when it should be \\server\share.
try just this with the quotes in the command line.
a /qr will give a progress bar.
or
Silent Install Not Running
I'm with Anton. Copy it down to C: and exectute it from there. Then remove the directory as a task, update the inventory for good measure.
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Silent install from shared folder
It should be work also from remote shared folder.
But do you have some error code or better, can you create script with a windows maximized and a wait command at the end. It can be helpful to understand the real reason about this issue...
all of our installs have
all of our installs have the program in quotes like this
but most just use this
also, is this an upgrade of a currently running program? We have a few where we've thrown in a taskkill (or net stop) command and/or a sleep to make sure the app gets removed/upgraded properly.
Silent install
You can also use
msiexec /q "\\server\share\package.msi"
That works great for me.
Q is quit
QN is run without user notifications
Regards
Erik
www.dvs4sbc.nl
Vista
In order for this to work on Vista using the run script option I've had to add a copy file command to move the msi to the local machine (c:\temp\ works great) then it will install silently using the msiexec /i msiname.msi /qn and msiexec /x {msiguid} /qn will uninstall it too.
Silent mode installtion failed to Extract the msi file to Temp
According to my knowledge,
Some application will install in normal mode whenever we are installing the same application in silent mode at that time it will not install
If it is a vendor MSI then run installation in normal mode and go to temp folder Before Finesh step and sea there is any .MSI files are extracted or not, if you got any .MSI files then copy the .MSI files and install that .MSI manually.
In the silent mode these MSI files are not extracted to the temp folder, Windows installer looks for Those MSI files in temp folder, if There is no files found in temp folder then the application will not Install in the silent mode.
So Try this