Scripting

Here's what worked for me. 

 

The syntax looks right. I suggest putting the fully qualified path in your msifile and mstfile names. And if there are spaces in your path, be sure to enclose the whole path in quotes. Quite often folks forget to use quotes and msiexec interprets the space in the path as a parameter and errors out because msiexec doesn't understand the parameter that it thinks is being passed.

Sorry - the info I typed in the above post works great from command line. Trying to get it to run through a WinBatch, however, isn't happening.

I've tried several changes, but here's what throws me errors right now:

RunWithLogon("msiexec %PATHTOFIXES%\Adobe Reader 7.0.5.msi","/qn","", @NORMAL, @WAIT,runas_user, runas_domain, runas_pswd,0)

I can take out the /qn and leave "" and it still doesn't work. Plus, it's not even applying a transform at this point, and it needs to.

Here's a line I've tried w/the transform:
RunWithLogon("%Adobe7%\Adobe Reader 7.0.5.msi","/TRANSFORMS=%Adobe7%\Reader705.mst", "", @NORMAL, @WAIT, runas_user, runas_domain, runas_pswd, 0)

I've also tried appending the /qn after the line w/the TRANSFORMS before the quote is closed - nothing.

Hi angelia,

What is the error you getting? Are you using a password? Is your runas service enabled??

It's enabled. I'm using the admin password - it's not throwing a password error, it's telling me the parameters are incorrect. Any other runas command that I use (we do windows updates on this same script through runas as well, but they're exe files) work fine.

I just can't seem to get WinBatch and MSI+MST to work properly, and I'm sure it's the syntax. Problem is I've tried everything I can think of (I've tried lines other than the above, too, with varying error messages - this is the closest I've gotten).

Hi anglia,

Try this it should work

RunWithLogon("msiexec.exe", "TRANSFORMS=MyFile.mst /i C:\Install\MyFile.msi", "", @NORMAL, @NOWAIT,runas_user, runas_domain, runas_pswd,0)

The whole function RunWithLogon should be on one single line.

If you want to make it silent just use the /qn at the end

RunWithLogon("msiexec.exe", "TRANSFORMS=MyFile.mst /i C:\Install\MyFile.msi /qn", "", @NORMAL, @NOWAIT,runas_user, runas_domain, runas_pswd,0)

let me know if it worked

Got "invalid command line parameters" from msiexec. I'm going to try to repackage the msi with the mst and see if it'll run that way...

Yet another 1932: "Winexec Error: The parameter is incorrect"

RunWithLogon(runas_cmd,"","",@NORMAL,@WAIT, runas_user, runas_domain, runas_pswd,0)

runas_cmd = "msiexec /i C:\temp\Oct05\msifile.msi TRANSFORMS=c:\temp\Oct05\mstfile.mst /qn"


this is quite frustrating as you can imagine. I don't know what parameter it wants me to pass, but it seems to have issue with the first set of quotes being empty.

Your runas_cmd1 should contain just the name of the desired executable(msiexec.exe) not the whole thing, the first set of quotes you are talking abt should contain the parameters if required by the application.


runas_cmd1 = "msiexec.exe"

RunWithLogon(runas_cmd1, "TRANSFORMS=mstfile.mst /i C:\temp\Oct05\msifile.msi /qn", "", @NORMAL, @NOWAIT,runas_user, runas_domain, runas_pswd,0)


and what are using for runas_domain ?? "" or "." or domain name

Domain is "." - I'm getting an error "installation package can't be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package." - when I switch the command line around to have the /i msi and then the transforms it gives me the same thing...

RunWithLogon(runas_cmd1,"/i msifile.msi TRANSFORMS=mstfile.mst","",@NORMAL, @WAIT,runas_user, runas_domain, runas_pswd, 0)

runas_cmd1 is set to c:\windows\system2\msiexec.exe