{"id":150,"date":"2011-09-24T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T21:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2011-09-24T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T21:13:42","slug":"vise-unattended-silent-install-demonstrated-with-imagine-it-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"VISE Unattended \/ Silent Install demonstrated with “Imagine It” software"},"content":{"rendered":"

The VISE installer has the ability to perform silent installs. This demo will be using\u00a0“Imagine It<\/a>“; educational\u00a0software\u00a0for elementary students\u00a0made by McGraw Hill. This demonstration is\u00a0a walk-through of the information found in the VISE manual.<\/a>\u00a0The documentation does have a switch for a silent install (“-s”); however, it failed with the Imagine It Software. In order to install the software, the ” -r: recsettings.ini ” switch must be used. This will record all the input given to the setup program, and will save it in the same location as the installer file. Once it has been recorded, the data is loaded back into the setup by using ” -p: recsettings.ini “. Using the “-p: recsettings.ini ” will initiate a silent install. The following pictorial steps shows how this is done step by step.<\/p>\n

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Step 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Copy all the files from the install cd to a network share.
\nNOTE: It doesn’t have to be a network share, but this will make the process of deploying the software much easier. The rest of this demonstration will assume it is on a network share.<\/p>\n

Step 2:<\/strong> Map the network share folder by using the “net use” command.\u00a0Information on how to use this command can be found\u00a0on Microsoft’s “Net Use” page.<\/a>\u00a0 Below is a screen shot of the files.<\/p>\n

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Step 3:<\/strong> Use the “-r: recsettings.ini” parameter as shown in the picture below. \u00a0This will record all actions in the installer to the recsettings.ini file. This file can be\u00a0modified after the installer is done (for example there is a change in your environment).
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Step 4:<\/strong> Install the program with your\u00a0settings. Below are some screen shots of the “Imagine It” installer.<\/p>\n

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Step 5:<\/strong> Perform the silent install by using the argument “-p: recsettings.ini”.\u00a0 This will load the settings from the earlier install, and within a few minutes the program will be installed.<\/p>\n

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For this installation, I know it is done when I see the “Imagine It” icon on my desktop.
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The VISE installer has the ability to perform silent installs. This demo will be using\u00a0“Imagine It“; educational\u00a0software\u00a0for elementary students\u00a0made by McGraw Hill. This demonstration is\u00a0a walk-through of the information found in the VISE manual.\u00a0The documentation does have a switch for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x8ho-2q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/constantinekrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}