windows installer ???

ladiesman217

im having hardtime understanding windows installer. i want to try and use it to install msoffice to get familiar with it and to have first hand experience to know its power and features. what steps and syntax should i use? can it be use to deploy over the network? i cant find any good examples and indepth explanation about it so pls help me.

sprkymrk

I've never seen a good conolidated resource on the subject either. From a cmd prompt type msiexec /? and see you various options. Then play with them to see what they do - that's what I did to learn to use it anyway. For instance, if you want to install program1 silently w/o user input, you would use:

msiexec /qn /norestart /i program1

That would cause there to be a [q]uiet install with [n]o user interface and [norestart] when the install is completed.