Group Policy Wizard; IDE vs command line

[erich.einfalt]

InstallAware15 StudioAdmin:

The Group Policy Wizard via the IA15 IDE states that the command line options for silent install and uninstall of the .MSI created by the IDE's Group Policy Wizard are automatically included. However the docs for the command line version, pgplwiz.exe, indicate that the second command line argument is for optional arguments (presumably passed to MS's msiexec.exe but that is not clear) and one of the examples shows "/s" as the second argument with the description that states that this example will cause the Windows installer to run the .MSI silently.

2 Questions;
(1) When using the command line pgplwiz.exe, do I need to explicitly include an argument for a silent install of the resulting .MSI? and if so,
(2) Is that command line argument "/s" or the msiexec.exe "/quiet" or "/qn" command arguments? MS's msiexec.exe docs do not have a "/s" argument.

I have tried "/s" and msiexec.exe's equivalent args "/quiet", "/passive", and "/qn" and, upon double clicking the resultant .MSI from Windows Explorer or calling msiexec.exe /i {Resultant.MSI] from the command line, that the installer still displays a UI. Is the actual UI suppression of an .MSI built with the Group Policy Wizard dependent upon settings in the associated Group Policy Object created by a Deployment Admin?

Erich Einfalt
Ntrepid Corp.

[FrancescoT]

Dear Erich,

if you want that your installer has to run in SILENT mode only, just add the "/s" switch argument in GP wizard command line.
Doing in this way, the GP Wizard generated package will embed the silent switch and the setup UI will be never displayed.

If you want to execute your package in silent mode from command line, you can use the "/s" switch argument if the package is a compressed IA EXE. Otherwise with MSI packages, the standard Windows Installer silent switches.

Hope this clarifies your doubt.

Regards