windows - Silent Install of MSI - Server Fault Examples: msiexec package Application msi quiet msiexec uninstall Application msi quiet msiexec update msipatch msp quiet msiexec uninstall msipatch msp package Application msi quiet Note The equivalent Windows Installer Command-Line Option is qn msiexec run this command to find more information about the installation options
Silently uninstall using msiexec without closing explorer. exe This script seems total overkill for uninstalling an application For a simple uninstall (without the rather dubious looking cleanup script entries above), you simply uninstall from the command line with msiexec exe (mock up GUID used below): msiexec exe X {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} QN Or you can uninstall via a number of other uninstall mechanism (this link will also show you
Is there anyway to get msiexec to echo to stdout instead of logging to . . . At the command line interface level, you can also set logging to flush its buffer immediately to file by adding the ! parameter: msiexec exe I "IsWiX msi" QN L*V! "C:\msilog log" This means the log file is written continuously so no log buffer is lost if msiexec exe crashes The cost is a significantly slower installer due to the IO overhead
Silent unattended uninstall switches for vmtools? - Server Fault Looking for the NON-MSIEXEC totally silent uninstall switches for vmtools I know the silent install is VMware-tools--x86_64 exe s v qn I just need the uninstall, I feel like it would be simila
Powershell - Invoke-command does not run the msiexec. exe I want to install the TortoiseSVN-client on a bunch of servers, using Powershell remoting Basic operations work, but the below command won't work as remoting Invoke-Command -ComputerName myserver -
windows - When running silent uninstalls of MSIs, how do you know when . . . If you have a msi you want to uninstall from the command line, doing MsiExec exe qn X{26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83217045F0} norestart for instance, returns immediately But msiexec exe is running for some amount of time, maybe for minutes So if I'm scripting around this to want to then do an install - how do I know if it's done?
windows installer - SCCM application deployment detection fails at . . . The installation method uses a short bat script to run the app's installation program in silent mode and select the correct settings file for an embedded msi: %~dp0MyInstaller exe s v" qn SETUPFILE=\"%~dp0MyAppSettings dat\" " The script also sets a separate registry key manually, but the above is the important step
How can I speed up MSI package install and uninstall? The most recent update to Windows Installer at the time of writing, Windows Installer 5 (available on Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7), features a new property MSIFASTINSTALL which can be used to speed up the installation of a large MSI package See the link above for valid values I would suggest 3 for no restore point, and only FileCosting (the process of
Install . msi from script, detect when install is done Don't know how Python handles passing commands off to Windows DOS, but using a plain batch file and the start wait command the batch file stops and waits until the MSI is done before moving on to the next step For example, to install a main app, followed by a patch only when it's finished, and then a final program once that's finished, drop these lines into a cmd file: start wait msiexec