Hello, I want to find out if its possible to determine the options of
an MSI file. I want to make an msi run silently with prompting anything
to the user. Some of the google searches suggest this can be done but
I'm not sure. Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks!

Jason

Typically you run the MSI with a command line:
msiexec /i <path to msi file? /q
and there are a few flavors of /q. The installation then just uses whatever
defaults there are for install location etc.
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"CrunkByte" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello, I want to find out if its possible to determine the options of
> an MSI file. I want to make an msi run silently with prompting anything
> to the user. Some of the google searches suggest this can be done but
> I'm not sure. Any help would be appriciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jason
>

Try InstallShield Lite from the original Win CD, a tool which allows you to
review MSI packages.

Hope this helps!

"CrunkByte" wrote:

> Hello, I want to find out if its possible to determine the options of
> an MSI file. I want to make an msi run silently with prompting anything
> to the user. Some of the google searches suggest this can be done but
> I'm not sure. Any help would be appriciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jason
>
>

Jason

This link has the information you need
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp
url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/command_line_options.asp

/q is the switch used for setting UI level during
installation.

for a completly silent installation with no UI at all u
can use /qn. Suppose you want to just show the small
dialog with the progress bar running u can use /qb-

if you use /qb+ then it will behave same as /qb- only
thing is you will see a message box at the end of
installation stating that installation is complete.

adding ! mark at the end of /qb+ or /qb- would make sure
that the cancel button on teh small progress bar dialog is
also disabled.



>-----Original Message-----
>Hello, I want to find out if its possible to determine
the options of
>an MSI file. I want to make an msi run silently with
prompting anything
>to the user. Some of the google searches suggest this can
be done but
>I'm not sure. Any help would be appriciated.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jason
>
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>