Deploy applications in silent mode using InstallShield

Applies to:

Cenergy

Issue:

Administrators often prefer to deploy and install applications without disrupting the end user.

Resolution:

Any application can easily be installed in an unattended and silent mode if its setup program is based on InstallShield®, an industry standard packaging system for initially installing many applications.

Create an InstallShield silent setup file (.iss) by walking through a real installation on a test PC using the following command line option
```
setup.exe -r
```
where -r causes setup to record the responses to installation options in a setup.iss file. By default the setup.iss file is created in the system's Windows directory.
Include the setup.iss file in your Cenergy package and use the following command line to execute setup.exe:
```
setup.exe -s -a /s 
/f1setup.iss
```
where -s runs setup in silent mode and -a signals that additional parameters are to be passed to the executable file. (In this case, those parameters are /s, which allows the installation to run silently, and /f1, which indicates the location of the response or .iss file.)

Note:

It is also possible to perform a silent uninstall using the following command line options within a Cenergy task package:

"C:\WINDOWS\ISUNINST.EXE" -y -a -m
-f "C:\Program Files\Path To\DeIsL1.isu"

Adjust the path of the .isu file for your particular application.

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