The default location is as follows:. After building a release of your product, you can install it from the command line:. The table below provides a detailed description of MsiExec. However, the Windows Installer displays an error dialog near the end of the uninstallation.
The error dialog indicates that the Windows Installer service could not be accessed. To perform an uninstallation from the command line in this scenario, the current recommended method is to use one of the following:. Transforms allow the synchronization of applications across different languages. For example, if you upgrade the English version of your product, you could apply a transform to automatically upgrade the French version of your product. Optionally include one or more of the following flags to indicate which information to record in the log file:.
Privacy policy. Provides the means to install, modify, and perform operations on Windows Installer from the command line. To install a package named example. You can configure what a user sees during the installation process, based on your target environment. For example, if you're distributing a package to all clients for manual installation, there should be a full UI. However, if you're deploying a package using Group Policy, which requires no user interaction, there should be no UI involved.
If your installation package overwrites files or attempts to change files that are in use, a reboot might be required before the installation completes. If you need to debug your installation package, you can set the parameters to create a log file with specific information.
You can set public properties through this command. Specify an absolute path; using a relative path gives unpredictable results. Special Installation Modes.
An administrative installation copies and uncompresses your data files to a directory that is specified by the user, but it does not create shortcuts, register COM servers, or create an uninstallation log. Tip: If an installation contains InstallShield prerequisites and you want to extract them from Setup. A sample command is Setup. An advertised installation creates shortcuts, registers COM servers, and registers file types, but does not install your product's files until the user invokes one of these "entry points.
Whenever you use this option and include a valid InstanceId value, the installation suppresses the instance selection dialog. For example, the following sample command line installs the instance that has 2 as the value of the InstanceId property:.
Use default to identify the instance that is installed by the base installation package, as in the following example:. Passing Data to the Installation. If you want to pass more than one argument to Msiexec. For example:. To learn more, see Setup. This option specifies command-line parameters to be passed to the script.
Note also that as with any public Windows Installer property, this property should be specified with all uppercase letters. Note: You must specify the full URL with the parameters. In the Release Wizard, for a Web Downloader build, you can specify a download location for your.
Note: You must specify the full URL with the parameter. In the Release Wizard, for a Downloader build, you can specify whether to cache the contents of a compressed package on the local system. For an InstallScript project, running the command Setup. Note: Debugging InstallScript code requires the debug-information file Setup. In addition, in order to debug an installation on a system other than your development machine, you need to copy certain files from your development machine to the debugging machine.
To learn more, see Debugging an Installation on Any Computer. To generate a log named InstallShield. Note that this does not work if the Setup.
To specify the name and location of the log file, pass the path and name, as in the following example:. You can use directory properties and environment variables in the path for the feature prerequisite log file. SMS Data. Following is a typical command:. Specifies the amount of time in seconds by which initialization of the installation is delayed after Setup. Note: Using the -delayedstart option is recommended when manually launching an additional installation after reboot for example, by using the RunOnce key.
The delay allows the operation system to initialize completely; this prevents the problems—such as Remote Procedure Call RPC errors—that can occur if an installation initializes before the operating system has initialized completely.
The recommended delay length is 30 seconds.
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