Silent Installations

InstallShield DevStudio

Silent installations are installations that run without a user interface. If you want your setup project to run silently, InstallShield DevStudio allows you to create silent installations for both the Basic MSI and InstallScript MSI project types.

Basic MSI Silent Installations

To run a Basic MSI setup silently, the end user needs to type the following at the command line:

msiexec /i Product.msi /qn

If your release settings include Setup.exe, users can run the command Setup.exe /s /v"/qn".

Basic MSI projects do not create or read response files. To set installation properties for a Basic MSI project, run a command line such as:

msiexec /i Product.msi /qn INSTALLDIR=D:\ProductFolder USERNAME="Valued Customer".

InstallScript MSI Silent Installations

InstallShield InstallScript MSI setups support two types of silent installation:

For traditional silent mode, you need to record a response file that records the user interaction. This response file is passed to Setup.exe so the installation can be run. The traditional silent installation works almost exactly the same as regular setups. It follows the same script logic as the regular installation.