.MSI installers

[RCDisty]

I am creating and autorun that includes an installation of Windows Defender, which is a .msi file. I saw in the forum archives that you need to use the Open Document action instead of Run Program in order to make this work, which it did. However, I'd like to pass the command line arguements /quiet /norestart in order to automate the installation of Defender, which I can't do using the Open Document action. Is there any way to accomplish this?

[Darryl]

Hi RCDisty,

No, I don't think there is a way to accomplish this using Autorun MAX! (alone).The normal method of running MSI installs that require arguments is to run the file "msiexec.exe" that normally exists in the user's System folder and then pass your .msi file and any other arguments. However running a file from the system folder is not possible in AMAX20.

I don't know if you have any control over how the install is created, but there may be other options for generating the install such as using a bootstrapper or something like that, or even creating another executable that would be able to call the file in this way.

If this functionality is very important to you, you may want to look into upgrading to AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0 which would handle it without a problem. If you're interested, upgrade pricing can be obtained by contacting our sales department.