EXE to MSI with install options

[thimon]

Hi guys.

 

I've used the helpful threads on here to change a EXE file to a MSI using "Exe to MSI Converter". My question is how do you save the options that you select during the installation into the MSI file so you can do silent installations? I can push out an MSI using GPO such as the official Google Chrome MSI, but when I want to push out say the Audacity MSI that I created, it still wants to go through the install options, I just want it to silently install in the background. I would appreciate any help on this as I'm pulling my hair out! Any other software or MSI conversion methods are welcome.

 

Thank you

[Oaktech]

MSI command line options?

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc759262(v=ws.10).aspx

 

If that's not enough it might be necessary to create an MST transform to inject your options...

 

http://tonyle.ca/blog/?p=33

Edited May 13, 2016 by Oaktech

[jertsy]

Hi guys.

 

I've used the helpful threads on here to change a EXE file to a MSI using "Exe to MSI Converter". My question is how do you save the options that you select during the installation into the MSI file so you can do silent installations? I can push out an MSI using GPO such as the official Google Chrome MSI, but when I want to push out say the Audacity MSI that I created, it still wants to go through the install options, I just want it to silently install in the background. I would appreciate any help on this as I'm pulling my hair out! Any other software or MSI conversion methods are welcome.

 

Thank you

 

Do you have SCCM? You can push out .EXE with command switches too, I rarely have to create MSI files these days.

[LeMarchand]

Run the exe from a command line with the /? suffix to see which switches it understands. Or cheat and script a copy of the portable version.

[DJ-1701]

I assume the MSI package you have is a wrapper? Just executing the Exe you provide it?

 

The Audacity Exe requires a /silent switch when executed to install silently. As @LeMarchand states, the /? switch is usually quiet useful and with a lot of Exes will tell you what switches you can use.