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Cannot Perform Silent Installation with Older Installers

Primary Software: LabVIEW Toolkits>>Report Generation Toolkit for Microsoft Office
Primary Software Version: 1.0
Primary Software Fixed Version: N/A
Secondary Software: N/A

Problem:
I am trying to install an old version of a National Instruments software product and every time I try to use /q or /quiet, the information screen opens. How do I silently install a product that uses Windows Installer 3.01?

Solution:
With some older installers, you need to reference an MSI file rather than setup.exe. For instance, older versions of the Report Generation Toolkit cannot be silently installed using the typical commands like setup.exe /q /AcceptLicenses yes or /setup.exe /quiet. If you try to use these commands, the help screen will typically launch with details of the command line arguments. However, most of the time, these older products will contain MSI files (Microsoft Installer) that can be referenced directly with these commands.

In order to silently install these products, find the MSI files that are being used by the MSI Executive (setup.exe). These are located in the file setup.ini. Some installations contain many MSI files, each for separate components of the installation.

Try the normal command line arguments with the MSI file rather than setup.exe. For instance, the report generation silent installation command is as follows: lvoffice.msi /quiet. This lvoffice.msi file, as documented in setup.ini, is located in a subdirectory of the installer as <installer>\lvoffice\lvoffice.msi.

Note: This technique is not common but is required for older versions of Windows Installer. Most newer installers can be referenced from setup.exe. For more information about newer installers, please reference the links below.

Related Links:
KB 3X8BAP96: Silent Install & Silent Uninstall
KnowledgeBase 4H38UPXU: Requesting Permissions from VLM during Mass Software Installations

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Report Date: 02/08/2007
Last Updated: 06/11/2008
Document ID: 467ECCGJ

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