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Guest		#1 Posted : Friday, June 17, 2011 11:15:06 AM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Medals: Joined: 4/9/2010(UTC) Posts: 331 Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)		Is there a way to do a silent install using the build installer? Are there any switches for the MSI file?

1 user thanked Guest for this useful post.		coriron on 10/31/2012(UTC)

Up2Date		#2 Posted : Wednesday, September 7, 2011 5:07:45 AM(UTC)
Rank: Member Joined: 9/7/2011(UTC) Posts: 14 Location: Aus		Hello All I'm on trial will be buying ScreenConnect i love it. I've been trying to get it installed onto my clients computers. i've tried login scripts and group policy none have worked. Does anyone know how to remotely get the unattended to install on domain computers without the customer needing to do anything. Regards,
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coriron		#3 Posted : Wednesday, October 31, 2012 5:13:00 PM(UTC)
Rank: Member Joined: 10/31/2012(UTC) Posts: 11 Location: UK Thanks: 5 times		Guest wrote: Is there a way to do a silent install using the build installer? Are there any switches for the MSI file? i'd like to renew this question? with 3.0 is there a way to do a silent install for deployment over a network?


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gslonline		#4 Posted : Friday, November 2, 2012 7:04:20 PM(UTC)
Rank: Newbie Joined: 11/2/2012(UTC) Posts: 11		MSI installations have a bunch of command line switches, some of which help with silent/unattended installs: Display Options /quiet Quiet mode, no user interaction /passive Unattended mode - progress bar only /q[n\|b\|r\|f] Sets user interface level n - No UI b - Basic UI r - Reduced UI f - Full UI (default) Have these been tried? /qn seems to work okay for me? Thanks, Nick


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michaeldale		#5 Posted : Sunday, November 10, 2013 9:15:56 PM(UTC)
Rank: Advanced Member Medals: Joined: 11/10/2013(UTC) Posts: 73 Thanks: 4 times Was thanked: 4 time(s) in 4 post(s)		I must be doing something wrong. I want to set this up in Group Policy so that the agent is installed automatically. While testing, ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi /qn works fine, but if I run the command a second time it uninstalls the application! If I then run the command a third time the agent is successfully installed again but I get duplicate machines in my remote control list. Any ideas? I'm running version 4.0.5552.5051.
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Jeff		#6 Posted : Monday, December 16, 2013 1:53:34 PM(UTC)
Rank: Administration Medals: Joined: 4/14/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,785 Location: Raleigh, NC Thanks: 8 times Was thanked: 156 time(s) in 122 post(s)		While I can not for sure say what is going on with Group Policy. The duplicate session I can help with. Currently the software keeps a list of all sessions for 24 hours (its a configuration setting in web.config) even the ones that have been uninstalled or are disconnected. Now that duration can be changed to be shorter or longer. What a lot of customers wanted was a way to quickly remove those from the list. In 4.1 we are introducing a new end button for unattended that will remove uninstalled clients from the list. It currently does not uninstall the client so if not uninstalled you would want to do that before removing from the list. Other changes around this use model will be released in 4.1 and will be documented in our output stream: http://forum.screenconne...ect-4-1-Release-Log.aspx
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kiteloop		#7 Posted : Wednesday, February 26, 2014 1:15:52 AM(UTC)
Rank: Newbie Medals: Joined: 1/23/2014(UTC) Posts: 4		Originally Posted by: michaeldale While testing, ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.msi /qn works fine, but if I run the command a second time it uninstalls the application! Originally Posted by: Jeff The duplicate session I can help with. Jeff: I got a big problem since we are often sending the install commands several times to make it easier and not keeping track of what is installed and not. Making it hard to send out this update to 10 new machines when I uninstall it by misstake on 1000 machines. Can you add a flag to install and one flag uninstall that would be great in the next release!


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Jeff		#8 Posted : Friday, February 28, 2014 2:50:12 PM(UTC)
Rank: Administration Medals: Joined: 4/14/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,785 Location: Raleigh, NC Thanks: 8 times Was thanked: 156 time(s) in 122 post(s)		Not sure about next release or not, but I will certainly run this by development to see what is going on and what we can do.
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oakleyross		#9 Posted : Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:31:24 PM(UTC)
Rank: Newbie Joined: 4/3/2014(UTC) Posts: 2 Location: Atlanta		REM * CUT AND PASTE THIS INTO A BAT OR CMD FILE TO RUN * REM * ONLY AFTER YOU EDIT THE 4 VARIABLES BELOW * REM * * REM *********************************************************** REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM * * REM * DATE: April 3rd, 2014 * REM * * REM * DESCRIPTION: * REM * Check and Deploy Screen Connect Client * REM * Via Active Directory Startup Script * REM * * REM * INPUTS: * REM * (1) Package Location/Deployment Directory * REM * (2) Script Logging Directory * REM * (3) Package Installer Command Line Options * REM * (4) Package Installer File Name * REM * * REM * OUTPUTS: Installs the Screen Connect Client * REM * Reports an error if the client * REM * is already installed * REM * * REM * * REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* setlocal REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM * * REM * INPUTS (MODIFY AS APPROPRIATE) * REM * * REM * * REM * (1) Package Location/Deployment Directory * REM * (2) Script Logging Directory * REM * (3) Package Installer Command Line Options * REM * (4) PACKAGE INSTALLER File Name * REM * * REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM * (1) PACKAGE LOCATION/DEPLOYMENT DIRECTORY * REM * * set DeployDirectory=\\server\share REM * * REM * (2) SCRIPT LOGGING DIRECTORY * REM * * set logshare=\\server\share REM * * REM * (3) PACKAGE INSTALLER COMMAND LINE OPTIONS * REM * * set CommandLineOptions=/silent REM * * REM * (4) PACKAGE INSTALLER FILE NAME * REM * * set InstallFile=ScreenConnect.exe REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM * * REM * * REM * BEGIN SCRIPT PROCESSING * REM * * REM * * REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* echo %date% %time% the %0 script is running >> %logshare%%ComputerName%.log REM ********************************************************* REM System verification REM *********************************************************** set CustomConfig=None REM Check if the screen connect client is already installed REM IF EXIST "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client" set CustomConfig=exists REM IF EXIST "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files\ScreenConnect Client" set CustomConfig=exists REM if %CustomConfig%==exists goto Found REM *********************************************************** REM Deployment begins here REM *********************************************************** :NotFound REM echo %date% %time% Package not detected, Begin Deployment >> %logshare%%ComputerName%.log start /wait %DeployDirectory%\%InstallFile% %CommandLineOptions% REM echo %date% %time% Deployment Completed >> %logshare%%ComputerName%.log echo %date% %time% : >> %logshare%%ComputerName%.log echo %date% %time% Install Logs: >> %logshare%%ComputerName%.log echo %date% %time% : >> %logshare%%ComputerName%.log goto End :Found echo %date% %time% Screen Client install was detected, Halting >> %logshare%%ComputerName%.log goto End :End echo %date% %time% the %0 script has completed successfully >> %logshare%%ComputerName%.log Endlocal
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dgparryuk		#10 Posted : Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:48:27 PM(UTC)
Rank: Newbie Medals: Joined: 4/16/2014(UTC) Posts: 5 Was thanked: 1 time(s) in 1 post(s)		oakleyross - genius - there are a few minor bugs in it... if anyone else is having trouble with it all the "%logshare%%ComputerName%.log" lines need a \ - ie "%logshare%\%ComputerName%.log" REM IF EXIST "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client" set CustomConfig=exists REM IF EXIST "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files\ScreenConnect Client" set CustomConfig=exists shouldn't be REM'd out other than that :-)

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jeremyrnelson		#11 Posted : Friday, September 30, 2016 8:26:21 PM(UTC)
Rank: Member Joined: 5/9/2015(UTC) Posts: 17 Location: Fort Wayne, IN Thanks: 2 times		Please be aware we made the mistake of deploying via Group Policy and were informed by Ryan Dittmar in support that installing via GPO is not supported!


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64QyrLh2ddSpB5		#12 Posted : Thursday, October 4, 2018 6:03:39 PM(UTC)
Rank: Guest Joined: 10/4/2018(UTC) Posts: 1 Location: Florida		Originally Posted by: dgparryuk oakleyross - genius - there are a few minor bugs in it... if anyone else is having trouble with it all the "%logshare%%ComputerName%.log" lines need a \ - ie "%logshare%\%ComputerName%.log" REM IF EXIST "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client" set CustomConfig=exists REM IF EXIST "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files\ScreenConnect Client" set CustomConfig=exists shouldn't be REM'd out other than that :-) I ran into issues using this script this week. I had used it before, and made changes to get it to work, but had forgotten the changes I had to make. I am re-posting the script, in it's entirety, with changes I had to make to get it to run. Modify as required: REM * CUT AND PASTE THIS INTO A BAT OR CMD FILE TO RUN * REM * ONLY AFTER YOU EDIT THE 4 VARIABLES BELOW * REM * * REM *********************************************************** REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM * * REM * DATE: October 3rd, 2018 * REM * * REM * DESCRIPTION: * REM * Check and Deploy Screen Connect Client * REM * Via Active Directory Startup Script * REM * * REM * INPUTS: * REM * (1) Package Location/Deployment Directory * REM * (2) Script Logging Directory * REM * (3) Package Installer Command Line Options * REM * (4) Package Installer File Name * REM * * REM * OUTPUTS: Installs the Screen Connect Client * REM * Reports an error if the client * REM * is already installed * REM * * REM * * REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* setlocal REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM * * REM * INPUTS (MODIFY AS APPROPRIATE) * REM * * REM * * REM * (1) Package Location/Deployment Directory * REM * (2) Script Logging Directory * REM * (3) Package Installer Command Line Options * REM * (4) PACKAGE INSTALLER File Name * REM * * REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM * (1) PACKAGE LOCATION/DEPLOYMENT DIRECTORY * REM * * set DeployDirectory=\\<server FQDN>\ScreenConnect REM * * REM * (2) SCRIPT LOGGING DIRECTORY * REM * * set logshare=\\<server FQDN>\ScreenConnect\ScreenConnectLogs REM * * REM * (3) PACKAGE INSTALLER COMMAND LINE OPTIONS * REM * * set CommandLineOptions=/quiet REM Had to change from silent to quiet REM * * REM * (4) PACKAGE INSTALLER FILE NAME * REM * * set InstallFile=<.MSI file name> REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM * * REM * * REM * BEGIN SCRIPT PROCESSING * REM * * REM * * REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* REM ********************************************************* echo %date% %time% the %0 script is running >> %logshare%\%ComputerName%.log REM ********************************************************* REM System verification REM ********************************************************* set CustomConfig=None REM Check if the screen connect client is already installed IF EXIST "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files (x86)\ScreenConnect Client (<already installed #>)" set CustomConfig=exists IF EXIST "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files\ScreenConnect Client (<already installed #>)" set CustomConfig=exists REM if %CustomConfig%==exists goto Found REM ********************************************************* REM Deployment begins here REM *********************************************************** :NotFound REM echo %date% %time% Package not detected, Begin Deployment >> %logshare%\%ComputerName%.log start /wait %DeployDirectory%\%InstallFile% %CommandLineOptions% REM echo %date% %time% Deployment Completed >> %logshare%\%ComputerName%.log echo %date% %time% : >> %logshare%\%ComputerName%.log echo %date% %time% Install Logs: >> %logshare%\%ComputerName%.log echo %date% %time% : >> %logshare%\%ComputerName%.log goto End :Found echo %date% %time% Screen Client install was detected, Halting >> %logshare%\%ComputerName%.log goto End :End echo %date% %time% the %0 script has completed successfully >> %logshare%\%ComputerName%.log Endlocal


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