Comments on: Command Line Switches for MSI and MSP Installations

By: Webinar: Best Practices for Building Installation in Visual Studio 2010

Webinar: Best Practices for Building Installation in Visual Studio 2010 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:29:58 +0000

[...] Command Line Switches for MSI and MSP Installations [...]

By: Vijay

Vijay — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:34:38 +0000

Thanks Konar, the credit goes to Bhuvana for this post!

By: Konar

Konar — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:01:40 +0000

Excellent !!!!!!!!!! work

By: Vijay

Vijay — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:56:06 +0000

Do add the /qn and run the ‘cmd’ window in admin context (right click and run as administrator). This will work.!

By: Nitin

Nitin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:54:08 +0000

when I remove ‘/qn’ and hit enter it opens a dialog box, where I click ok, Then It runs fine on Wsindows7 too.
But I want it silent…

By: Vijay

Vijay — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:52:39 +0000

Well Nitin, try this -

Goto Start-> cmd-> right click and do a Run as Administrator. Now the cmd window will run in admin context (hint – this will open with the path C:\System32 in it.)

Here run the previous command. ie., msiexec /update “mypath.msp” /qn

This will work. Do test and let me know!

By: Nitin

Nitin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:42:17 +0000

Hi Vijay,
Thanks for your reply. I have not found any solution yet.

Problem:
msiexec.exe /update “myPatch.msp”/qn

above works for XP but not on Windows7

How can I fire this command in Windows7. I have logged in as User who has admin privileges.

Nitin

By: Vijay

Vijay — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:42:34 +0000

Hey Nitin, . If its running with a \qn, the UI dialog of the msi doesn’t appear and even the UAC consent is not answered. Hence, the software doesn’t install. If you use a /qb, it may throw the UAC dialog.

This link gives some information on this – http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/you-do-not-have-sufficient-privileges-complete-installation-all-users. According to this one mitigation is to set a GPO policy and also rename the installer name to something like setup.msi or install.msi.

However, if you are pushing through SCCM or any deployment agent, it shouldn’t cause an issue. It will just install.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:59:12 +0000

Hi Bhuvana,
Thanks for this valuable post. I would like to know installing patch (.msp) of my .net application works fine on XP professional using ‘msiexec’ command with ‘/qn’ option for silent install however it does not get installed on Windows7 Home basic. I guess there might of its security issues but I dont know how to fire msiexec command so that it is forcely installed.

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By: Pinaki M

Pinaki M — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:36:09 +0000

Very useful article …

By: Vivek

Vivek — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:53:15 +0000

@ Bhuvana,

Thanks a lot on clarifying the doubt

@ VJ,

Great VJ, learning abcd of Packaging now. This blog alwayz a handbook for me. Your tech updates and Winodows 7 articles are sooper

By: suchikant

suchikant — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:22:27 +0000

very useful article

By: msigeek

msigeek — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:14:42 +0000

Thanks for supporting the blog Vivek. Your idea is really soooper cool. We will write an article on MST (Transforms) and post it soon.

By: msigeek

msigeek — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:13:42 +0000

Thanks for your addition buddy.! Well, Bhuvana gets the credit for this nice post (not me) he he..!!

By: rodolfuuu

rodolfuuu — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:01:37 +0000

Great Post Vj, an aditional comment, you can set to install more than one msp file in the same command line, with ; between the msp filename. Example: msiexec /p “name1.msp”;”name2.msp” /qn

By: Bhuvana

Bhuvana — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:22:50 +0000

I am glad that it was useful

By: shanthi

shanthi — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:24:06 +0000

very useful and informative article.

By: rishumehra

rishumehra — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:20:03 +0000

Very gud.. its quite informative..

By: anilm2010

anilm2010 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:13:48 +0000

Awesome post Bhuvana

By: Bhuvana

Bhuvana — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:09:22 +0000

Hi Vivek

Thanks for your feed back.
If you enter the command 'Msiexec /package MSIPATCHREMOVE=' without /qb option, it displays the maintenance dialog.

Regards
Bhuvana

By: Sachin J

Sachin J — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:59:39 +0000

Good one.I attached this printout on my desk.

By: AnandK

AnandK — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:52:38 +0000

Nice article, sure will be of use to Admins.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:35:03 +0000

Good article,

Small doubt, any idea Why Ptach uninstallation doesnot work without “/qb” option?

Thanks Bhuvana for this article in MSIGeek, I am also a fan of MSIGeek.

VJ,

Thanking you If any plan posting article on creating TRANSORMS? will help much profs like me to learn basics of packaing