Questions tagged [msi]
MSI is a Windows Installer package. It contains all of the components necessary to install a particular software package along with a machine-readable description of how the package should be installed.
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The corporate benefits of using MSI files
What are the advantages of using .msi files over regular setup.exe files?
I have the impression that deployment is easier on machines where users have few permissions, but not sure about the details....
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Group Policy installation failed error 1274
I'm trying to deploy an MSI via the Group Policy in Active Directory. But these are the errors I'm getting in the System event log after logging in:
The assignment of application XStandard from ...
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Find GUID of MSI Package
How can I find the GUID of an MSI package? I would like to script the removal of a program on a large number of desktops by using:
msiexec.exe /x ProductCode
Any reason why this would not work ...
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Determine the name of a feature in an MSI to install from the command line
I am trying to install an application (SalesLogix 7.2 Admin Tools and Servers) from an MSI package, but only want to install a particular feature. How can I determine the feature name so I can try ...
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How can I speed up MSI package install and uninstall?
When installing and uninstalling Windows Installer packages, or MSI files as they are called, the progress of the installation appears signifiantly slower than with other installation packages.
Why ...
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What is the best (free) tool to wrap an .exe into a MSI?
I'm looking at deploying some software via GPSI and the current version of the software is distributed as a .exe so I need to convert it to an MSI file.
furthermore, why does MS still distribute some ...
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Retrieving public properties from an MSI file
Is there a tool or mechanism for retrieving the available public properties from a Windows MSI file?
Some vendors that supply MSI files don't document these themselves, so I'm curious to see if there ...
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How do I run a .msi installer with elevated priviledges on Windows
Normally you can right-click an executable and select "Run As" and away you go, but it doesn't seem to work for .msi files.
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Batch file to uninstall all Sun Java versions?
I'm setting up a system to keep Java in our office up to date. Everyone has all different versions of Java, many of them old and insecure, and some dating back as far as 1.4. I have a System Center ...
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Is there anyway to get msiexec to echo to stdout instead of logging to a file
As part of a continuous delivery pipeline I'd like to install an msi on a given machine. msiexec plus psexec does this perfectly, but it seems that msiexec can only log to a file and I need it to log ...
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Install .msi from script, detect when install is done
I'm trying to make an install script. I want to install an .msi file, Python, and then install other things after Python is installed. I already see how to do a command-line install. However, msiexec ...
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How do I determine what the Windows Installer (msiexec) is doing?
After rolling out a new software package, I'm seeing high CPU usage on machines. One process that seems to be really active is msiexec, which really shouldn't be running. I'm watching it in process ...
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Roll back suspended .MSI install from command-line
We deployed a Java installer to a large number of machines, and it froze up on about half of them. Now, subsequent deployments are failing because of the following message:
User 'SYSTEM' has ...
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I deployed Flash Player via a Software Installation policy. How to upgrade?
I have a Windows Server 2008 machine as my DC. Earlier this year I created a Software Installation GPO to deploy Adobe Flash Player plugin MSI. I assigned the policy to the computers, about half run ...
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ORCA MSI Editing [closed]
mornig All,
I am trying to edit an MSI package using ORCA, this is quite a good tool, but does any one know of any more good MSI editing tools?
Cheers
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What does /v/qn parameter do for windows silent installers?
This page says to do a silent install you pass in the parameters /s /v/qn. It mentions what /s does - silent install - but not what /v/qn does.
So what does it do? Why the weird format? (on one ...
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I want to install an MSI twice
I have a peculiar wish to install an msi twice on a machine.
The purpose of the double install is to first install under the pre-production folder, run the deployment in a safe environment prior to ...
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How can I eliminate the huge, cached MSI files in C:\Windows\Installer?
The size of the MSI cache folder (C:\Windows\Installer) has grown substantially, and is now taking up way too much disk space on my (domain) computers. Can this folder be eliminated or shrunk?
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What, exactly, is the SCCM client doing when it installs an .msi for a system?
I've been working with a particular .msi (AppleApplicationSupport.msi). I have installed it two different ways which I thought would be equivalent. However the results differ as follows.
PSEXEC -i -...
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Installing MSI via Group Policy in a Fully Unattended Way
I have some MSI files I would like to install via Group Policy. Does anyone know how to do this or know a document that explains how to do this that meets the following criteria:
When installed by ...
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Unable to launch MSI installers off NFS share
I have a Linux server where I've configured a read only NFS share. The client I'm currently working on is a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that has the NFS features installed. I'm able to open and ...
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What could be causing MsiInstaller to continuously reconfigure applications(EventID 1035)?
I have a brand-new machine that we just installed Windows Server 2008 Enterprise on about two months ago. In the event log, I am seeing thousands of EventID 1035 logged. This is MsiInstaller ...
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Published software not displayed in Add/Remove Programs
I just followed How to use Group Policy to remotely install software in Windows Server 2003 to try publishing a software (MSI file). I could follow all the steps, but the supposedly successfully ...
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MSI-file works fine when run locally, but not when pushed from group policy
The MSI are to install a small program and an Outlook add-in.
Both are installed correctly when the MSI is run locally, but when I install it with group policys from AD the program is installed but ...
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How to create an MSI to install and register an ActiveX Control?
I have a third party ActiveX Control that I want to package up in a msi so it can be deployed and registered via Group Policy. The goal being I don't want the end user to have to click through and ...
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Group policy software installation Upgrade vs Replace
I select upgrade in gpo software install to upgrade an existing package. I am not replacing the package.
Will the old package and the upgrade package be installed on new computers joining the domain?
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Need to allow unsigned msi to install
I have a product to install on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. The msi is unsigned and when the it trys to install it is blocked saying
"This file was blocked because it does not have a valid digital ...
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Is it possible to disable msiexec help GUI?
I'm automating unattended retrieval & installation of specified .msi packages with a powershell script but if the command is invoked with syntax errors the msiexec will wait indefinitely for an OK ...
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Deploying .msi application through GPO doesn't work
I've been trying to deploy the forticlient SSL VPN application (.msi format) into my domain machines, using a GPO. Even though I made a silent previous installation by issuing the command: msiexec /qb ...
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Splunk UniversalForwarder fails with " DetermineContextForAllProducts failed witht: 0x65b"
I am attempting to deploy the Splunk UniversalForwarder as an SCCM application using an MSI Deployment Type to a small group of testing servers and am encountering an uncharacteristically confusing ...
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What happens when you uninstall a per-user installation?
What happens if an MSI installation is set to install as per-user, and 3 different users log on and each install the app? Will Windows Installer recognise that the same MSI has already been installed ...
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Re/Installing an MSI, getting 'not a valid short file name' error
We are running windows 2008.
We have a windows service called ImportService, that is installed via an MSI package.
A previous version was installed about 3 months ago without problems.
When have ...
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Specify original msi install location for msp file using a command line switch
Using SCCM 2012 I have deployed Autodesk Revit 2014 to my users. The install uses an underlying "RVT2014.msi". Now I would like to push out Update Release 2 which is an ".msp" file. I would like the ...
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AD: Roll out an MSI application at midnight
Using Windows Server's Active Directory and Group Policy, is there a way to roll out an MSI file at a scheduled time, like midnight?
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Is it possible to re-cab an Administrative Install Point?
We have Acrobat 8 Pro at work, and our media was painfully out of date. Rather than install all of the machines at 8.0.0 and then do the 6 or 7 consecutive reboots adobe expects you to be ok with I ...
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Multiple installers attached to a single GPO?
Can more than one installer (msi, mst) be linked to a GPO to deploy multiple packages at once?
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MSI package for reg deployment
What is the best way to create MSI package to deploy a registry key over a network, rather than using GPO.
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Puppet upgrade msi on windows
I'm running puppet on windows and I want to upgrade a package (java) I installed using an msi. I installed the package using
package { 'java':
ensure => installed,
provider => 'msi',
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When running silent uninstalls of MSIs, how do you know when it is done?
If you have a msi you want to uninstall from the command line, doing MsiExec.exe /qn /X{26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83217045F0} /norestart
for instance, returns immediately. But msiexec.exe is running ...
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Does Group Policy detect installed version before downloading an MSI from network
I used group policy to deploy an Adobe Reader X .msi file, which successfully updated the machines it was targeted to.
The computer group those machines belong to still has a link to the GPO which ...
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How do I package this vbscript as a msi for Group Policy
I had a developer that is no longer with us create an msi to do this for me, but the package is outdated now and we need to deploy new files.
Basically I need to do the following:
Take the code at ...
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Windows Installer folders registry key value 1
I'm looking for information about the reg folder "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Folders"
I couldn't find any information on MSDN or other sites.
I see that ...
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GPO Link Disabled, will Software gets uninstalled?
I have been pushing installation of a software via GPO. If the software has been installed on all workstations needing it, will disabling the GPO link (or deleting the link outright) cause the ...
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Remote installing programs by scripts or batch files
Firstly, I can't use Group Policy as our team doesn't manage that. The company is a massive FTSE company with a team for every aspect of IT you can think of.
Our team needs a way of installing ...
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How to install an MSI package from a command prompt
We have several web sites that we deploy using an MSI package. One package per website.
This works fine manually:
we go into the control panel
uninstall the old version
then run the MSI, filling ...
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Microsoft Web Deployment Service Silent Install
I am trying to script the installation of the web deployment service (WebDeploy_x64_en-US).
There is a quiet flag (/quiet), however it does not install the remote management service by default.
I did ...
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Analyzing an MSI installation log file
I'm often tasked to examine MSI installation logs in order to find why some installation fails. But such logs are VERY large and has hundred of strings with "error" text in them. Moreover, it's a lot ...
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rpm -ql package_name equivalent for Windows MSI?
Is there such a utility or capability an MSI? Perhaps msiexec?
rpm -ql provides the list of all the files installed by a given package. I'd like to get the same info from a Windows system.
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Silently install MSI without disabling UAC
I have an MSI file which I produce that I need to install on a number of Windows 2008 machines as part of automated deployment process in a test environment.
When I install the MSI by hand I get a ...
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