{"id":2221,"date":"2014-02-17T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2019-07-07T21:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T21:15:23","slug":"visual-installer-new-script-command-that-handles-msi-installations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/visual-installer-new-script-command-that-handles-msi-installations\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Installer: New script command that handles MSI installations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have added a new script command to Visual Installer&#8217;s scripting language that handles MSI installations (Windows Installer installations). The name of the new script command is <strong>MSIEXEC<\/strong> and it is very flexible in its use. Via this script command you can for example start a silent or visible MSI installation, and you can choose whether Visual Installer should pause it&#8217;s own installation until the MSI installation is completed, or if the MSI installation and Visual Installer&#8217;s installation should be run in the same time (a parallel installation). And by combining the new script command with conditions, you can make Visual Installer run different MSI setup packages depending of the operating system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-script-window-msiexec-with-conditions.jpg\" alt=\"MSIEXEC\"><\/p>\n<p>We have added a tip page to the tips &amp; tricks section of our website that explains in detail how to use the new script command. You can open the tip page by clicking on the link below:<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/visual-installer\/tips\/tips-pages\/run-msi-installation-from-script\/run-msi-installation-from-script.htm\">Tip: Run MSI installation from script<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/pad\/icons\/visual_installer.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\">To use this script command, you must have <strong>Visual Installer 2014 \/ Professional<\/strong> version <strong>10.0.15<\/strong> or later installed in your computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have added a new script command to Visual Installer&#8217;s scripting language that handles MSI installations (Windows Installer installations). The name of the new script command is MSIEXEC and it is very flexible in its use. Via this script command you can for example start a silent or visible MSI installation, and you can choose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/visual-installer-new-script-command-that-handles-msi-installations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visual Installer: New script command that handles MSI installations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6116,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/6116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}