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Using an MSI Package to Perform a Silent Installation

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This article provides an example script, by no means will this script work for every customer. ConstructConnect does not provide IT Services of this nature - if you require assistance performing Silent Installations or using scripts to install software, please contact a qualified IT Professional..

IT or network administrators can use the product's "MSI Package" to perform a silent or distributed installation on an end user's machine.

This only works with the MSI packages; MSI Packages for all released versions of On-Screen Takeoff and Quick Bid are available by Contacting Support

Warning
As an IT professional, it is assumed you understand how to distribute files and scripts; Technical Support does not provide assistance with that. If you do not know how to do that, you should not be using the MSI Package to distribute software, and we recommend you download and distribute the EXE installation file instead.

Whoever is installing the application (running the script) must be a Local Admin on the machine - you cannot request elevated privileges in a silent installation and the products can only be installed by a Windows Administrator.

The commands below install a "Default Installation", installed to the C:\Program Files (x86) folder, with all defaults accepted. Optional switches can be applied but are not necessary. To view optional switches, type "/?" after the MSI package name.

Additional Warnings

Your script must copy the MSI Package to the end user's machine - the user's "Downloads" folder ("c:\users\<user name>\Downloads") is a great location because every Windows user has one.

You must also include a request for an "Admin Token" within your script - the installer requires Local Admin privileges, just like any program that gets installed to Program Files. If you don't insert the request for the Admin Token, Windows User Account Control will stop the installation, prompting the user (who may not be there), to continue.

Script/Command

The very basic installation is launched by running the command shown below from the folder where the MSI package is saved. This is not an acceptable script to install the programs because it does not invoke the "Admin Token", but is an example of the type of script you will use to roll out installations using an MSI package.

On-Screen Takeoff/Digital Production Control

OST Silent Installation command

from the folder when the MSI Package is stored,

"msiexec /i OST395254.msi (or whatever the name/version of the MSI Package is) /quiet"

Quick Bid

OST Silent Installation command

"msiexec /i QB4970229.msi (or whatever the name/version of the MSI Package is) /quiet"





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