{"id":1376,"date":"2017-12-04T07:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T07:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2020-05-29T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T08:41:09","slug":"what-is-msi-script-and-its-installation-modes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/what-is-msi-script-and-its-installation-modes\/","title":{"rendered":"what is MSI Script and its Installation Modes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>applicationPackaging created the topic: what is MSI Script and its Installation Modes?<\/strong><br \/>\nMSI Script contains 3 installation modes:<\/p>\n<p>1. Normal Installation:<br \/>\nSelect this installation mode to edit the sequences that are run during a normal installation. This is the most common type of installation.<\/p>\n<p>If the application is not already installed when an end user double-clicks the installation .MSI, the standard installation wizard appears (Install Dialogs), which installs the product. If the application is already installed when an end user double-clicks the installation .MSI or if the end user selects it from the Add\/Remove control panel, the installation runs in maintenance mode (Maintenance Dialogs), which provides options to modify, repair, or uninstall an application.<\/p>\n<p>2. Administrative Installation:<br \/>\nSelect this installation mode to edit the sequences that are run during an administrative installation.<br \/>\nAn administrative installation copies a source image of the application to a network; the source image resembles the directory structure of the installed application. End users who have access to the administrative installation can then install the application from the network location.<br \/>\nTo run an administrative installation, use the command line option \/a. (Example: msiexec \/a &#8220;C:\\path\\Sample.msi&#8221;.) An administrative installation uses the Admin Dialogs.<\/p>\n<p>3. Advertisement Installation<br \/>\nSelect this installation mode to edit the sequences that are run during an advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>applicationPackaging created the topic: what is MSI Script and its Installation Modes? MSI Script contains 3 installation modes: 1. Normal Installation: Select this installation mode to edit the sequences that are run during a normal installation. This is the most common type of installation. If the application is not already installed when an end user&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripting","tag-installation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}