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Silent Installation Procedures for System
Administrators
Silent installations allow you to repackage MapInfo Professional for deployment within your company
so your users do not have to enter user- or company-specific information, path information, a serial
number, or an access code.
You may also be interested in reviewing Workgroup Installations for System Administrators
for file sharing to use this installation model for deploying MapInfo Professional.
Note:
The MapInfo Professional installation setup.exe indicated in the steps below can be found on the
installation DVD (D:\) in this directory:
\Install\MI_PRO\DISK1
The silent installation process involves:
1. Place the installation DVD in the target computer’s disk drive.
2. From the command line on the target computer, type:
"[Drive and Path]\setup.exe" /s /v"[Parameters for MSI]"
where [Parameters for MSI] are the parameters you set to populate the msiexec.
For example:
"d:\Install\MI_PRO\DISK1\setup.exe" /s /v"/qb INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program
Files\MapInfo\MapInfoPro\" USERNAME=\"MyUser\" COMPANYNAME=\"MyCompanyName\"
PIDKEY=MySerialNumber ACCD=MyAccessCode"
Where:
On a 64-bit operating system: INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program Files (x86)\MapInfo\MapInfoPro\"
The parameter /qb tells the msiexec command to launch the install with a basic interface. That does
not require any user action and allows the user to respond to the operating system's User Account
Control (UAC).
There should be no space in between Variable=Content. A space is used as a separator in between
parameters.
Parameters for user information:
• USERNAME = User Name
• COMPANYNAME = Company Name
Parameters for installation target information:
• INSTALLDIR = Install Directory
• CRYSTALRINST = False. Use this parameter to decline the installation of Crystal Reports, installed
by default.
Parameters for licensing information:
• PIDKEY = Serial Number
• ACCD = Access Code
• LSNAME = License Server Name
• LSPN = License Server Port Number
Parameters for activating node lock and distributed licenses silently:
• ACTLIC = True. For silent automatic NODE LOCK and DISTRIBUTED activate licenses.
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