MSI switches for installshield

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hi, i dont know if some of you are aware but version 7 and above of installshield support MSI switches, here is a snippet taken from sourceforge.net

InstallShield with MSI

Recent versions (7 and above) of InstallShield's tools are able to produce MSI files. Read InstallShield's documentation for full details.

These MSI files may be shipped alone or with a setup.exe installer. These installers in turn come in two flavors, called "InstallScript MSI" and "Basic MSI". InstallScript MSI uses the traditional InstallShield switches. Basic MSI is another story.

To perform an unattended installation using a Basic MSI installer, you provide the /s /v"..." switches, where ... represents any additional switches you want to pass down to msiexec. These should include the /qb (or /qn) switch to make the installation non-interactive, so a minimal invocation would be:

    setup.exe /s /v"/qb"

Just to make things interesting, any of these mechanisms might be combined with PFTW. For example, I eventually figured out that the IBM Update Connector requires these flags for unattended installation:

    updcon532.exe /s /a /s /v"/qb"

The first /s tells the PFTW installer to extract silently. The /a tells it to provide the remaining switches to the underlying setup.exe. The second /s tells setup.exe to run silently, while the /v"/qb" tells it to pass /qb to msiexec, which causes msiexec to run non-interactively but display a basic interface.

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