Applying Serial Numbers During Silent Install

H4nd0 · Post by **H4nd0** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:12 pm

Our product needs serials to "activate" otherwise they run in trial mode. When our installers run in interactive mode they prompt you for serial details.

How would I supply serial details in silent mode (eg. installer.exe /s or via msiexec.exe)?

Alex_Ronquillo · Post by **Alex_Ronquillo** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:48 pm

That would definitely need to be from the command line. In silent installs, the user will not be able to be prompt for a serial. However, there is still hope for you. The pre-defined variable SILENT is the one controlling the silent install. You can set it to FALSE to show your serial dialog, and after the dialog set it to TRUE again to continue the installation in silent mode.

H4nd0 · Post by **H4nd0** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:10 pm

Cool ... thanks

Roostar2004 · Post by **Roostar2004** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:47 am

Is there away using the installaware registration with serial dialog to not have to have the user enter anything into a dialog?

The reason why I ask is because a lot of our customers will install through the command line on mutilpul computers at a time and would need these dialogs not to come up. If it were posible for the user to enter the registration code as a command line parameter that would help us out a lot.