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Silent installation of Phoenix

Administrators can remotely install Phoenix on users’ computers in “silent” mode using scripting. This allows large organizations to “push out” installation updates to computers overnight without any user interaction.

The command to issue is the following. This can be run from a command prompt, from the directory where the Phoenix setup.exe file is located.

setup.exe /s MINIMUM=FALSE COMPLETE=TRUE DESKTOPDIR=C:\Users\Public\Desktop

where:

/s: Tells the install to be silent (no UI is displayed).

MINIMUM=FALSE: Specifies that it will not just be Phoenix installed.

COMPLETE=TRUE: Specifies that MPI and JMS are also to be installed.

DESKTOPDIR=C:\Users\Public\Desktop: Specifies the location to put the Phoenix shortcut. Specifying the Public profile will ensure ALL users receive the shortcut.

As part of scripting the installation (PowerShell is being used in the following example):

Start-Process <PATH_TO_PHOENIX_EXECUTABLE> -ArgumentList “/s MINIMUM=FALSE COMPLETE=TRUE DESKTOPDIR=C:\Users\Public\Desktop” -Wait

Italicized text above indicates PowerShell syntax needed to properly execute the command, as well as wait for a successful completion before continuing.