Silent Administrative Install - Specifying an installation directory

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Chris Dobinson picture Chris Dobinson · Aug 4, 2010 · Viewed 28.4k times · Source

I'm currently trying to add some testing functionality into our builds, and in order to do this I need to be able to perform an administrative install, silently. However, I need to be able to specify the location that it installs too, as the default is on the company-wide network which is no use.

I was wondering if there was a way to specify the installation directory through parameters for this type of operation, and if so how?

Many thanks, Chris

Answer

Christopher Painter picture Christopher Painter · Aug 4, 2010

msiexec /a foo.msi TARGETDIR=C:\EXTRACT\ /qn /l*v admin_install.log

/a = admin install of foo.msi /qn fully silent ( /qb! is mostly silent ) /l*v create a verbose log - in case it fails

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