11/15/2010 3:47 PM | |
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My suggestion as one user to another is to use Auto IT! to record and then play back the keystrokes necessary to completely install the software. Since Version 11 is coming out in 7 days 22 hours, etc.. ( https://www.automation.siemens.com/mcms/topics/en/engineering-redefined/Pages/default.aspx?HTTPS=REDIR), perhaps you should wait for that version before scripting the installation of software rather than having to do it, then next week do it all over again. Plus, the new version may even be automated installation friendly. |
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10/3/2011 2:42 PM | |
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Hey. I know this software is now old hat, but stumbled upon this post while googling for silent install of V11 (unsuccessful thus far). I'll attach the script I made to create a silent install. Took me a while to make, but it does work. It won't work immidiately though. First you'll need to start an installation of step7 from cd1 and go to the %temp% folder - there you'll find the installshield information for the install. Basically what siemens did in their *** way, was to wrap a beepload of custom actions in an msi container and call it an installation. Anyway, to make it completely silent, you have to find the file called steuerdatei.ini and make a copy of it. Remove the param5 (I think it was) from the post install run commands, which is the thing that prompts for interface selection. You can't do that silent, so you have to remove it. Even so, you can still have your users select the file manually later. ps. it's simple boring old batch scripting with no sophistication. I'm not even checking return codes between install parts, but if you want some sort of control, you should check that a return code after any given command is either 0 or 3010 (3010 is being cleaned up by the reg file that I'll attach too). As for uninstall. You can choose to run the msi files with /X but I'm not convinced they included working customactions for cleanup. We just redeploy when we need a cleanup, so didn't bother testing. Anyway, have fun, or skip it in which case I wasted 10 minutes explaining. Oh well. Bye.
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