Silent installation of a MSI package
advanced-installer, installation, windows-installer, wix
Solution
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.
Problem
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: - Installation location (C:\Program Files\Foobar) - Install type: minimal and full (minimal) 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.