Install MSI apps

 Keywords: installing install launch .msi msiexec msiexec.exe 

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Question:

Anyone know how I can install 3 apps one after the other using Winbatch?.. The only catch is that it needs to run *.MSI apps?

Answer:

When installing msi packages, a process named msiexec.exe does all the processing. One way is to do a RunWait with msiexec.exe. Go to Microsoft's tech article #Q227091 to learn how to use msiexec.exe.

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For remote installing use WMI.

computer = "Test"
userid = "fred"
pswd =  "flintstone"
msi = "update.msi"
Locator = objectopen("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
service = Locator.ConnectServer(computer, "root/cimv2", userid, pswd) 
Security = Service.Security_ 
Security.ImpersonationLevel = 3 
system = service.get("Win32_Process") 
start = system.create(StrCat("msiexec /i ",msi))
ObjectClose(Locator)
ObjectClose(Security)
ObjectClose(system)

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