SmartNotebook 11 - Silent Install?

[Tyrantulas]

I used the Smart Install Manager to create a custom .mst file with our organization's serial and prefered install options, but can't seem to figure out how to actually execute it from a command line.

 

msiexec.exe /i /a C:\Temp\SmartNotebook\SMARTEducationSoftware.msi TRANSFORM=C:\Temp\SmartNotebook\CUSTOM.mst

 

Leaving that "/i" in there seems to make it come up with a dialog box with a list of command line switches... The best I've gotten so far is error messages.

 

Reading the support documents, it seems like the Smart Install Manager is supposed to let you build a customized MSI file for doing the install... but I sure can't figure out how it's supposed to do that.

 

Any assistance would be most appreciated.

 

Thank you!

[Arthur]

Try removing the /a (but keep the /I). Also add /qn or /qb on the end. Edited March 14, 2019 by Arthur

[Tyrantulas]

If you don't remove the "/i" you just get a dialog box explaining all the command line switches... if you pull out the TRANSFORM command, it gives other strange errors.

 

Am I using TRANSFORMS in the proper way?

[Tyrantulas]

"msiexec /i SMARTEducationSoftware.msi /qn"

 

Doesn't seem to do anything... it just immediately dumps you back at the command prompt.

[Arthur]

I didn't spot it at first, but you are also missing an 's' on the end of TRANSFORM...

 

msiexec.exe /i C:\Temp\SmartNotebook\SMARTEducationSoftware.msi TRANSFORM[color="#FF0000"]S[/color]=C:\Temp\SmartNotebook\CUSTOM.mst /qb

 

Doesn't seem to do anything... it just immediately dumps you back at the command prompt.

Is the software already installed on the PC you are testing the MSI on? If it is, uninstall SmartNotebook and then try again.

[Mr.Ben]

Also, Unless you have a good reason to install v11, move up to v18. When the trial runs out staff just have to log in to use it in 'Limited mode', which has all of the features of v11 (I haven't found anything missing yet!)

[jmak]

Also, Unless you have a good reason to install v11, move up to v18. When the trial runs out staff just have to log in to use it in 'Limited mode', which has all of the features of v11 (I haven't found anything missing yet!)

Do they need a Smarttech account each to do that and do they have to sign in every time they restart the computer or application?

[ass17]

This is ours:

c:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe /i "\\server1\SMART\EducationSoftware.msi" TRANSFORMS="\\server1\SMART\EducationSoftware.mst" /qb /L*V "C:\windows\temp\smartnotebook.log"

 

Works for us

[Mr.Ben]

Do they need a Smarttech account each to do that and do they have to sign in every time they restart the computer or application?

They do need an account each (although they can just sign in with their Office 365 or Google Credentials. You only need to sign in the once.