A P P E N D I X
MSI Installation Options
OPT IO N
/a
/v
EXTRACTFILE
S="c:\xyz"
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D E SC R IP TIO N
Administrative installation option. This instructs setup.exe to perform an
administrative installation instead of a normal installation. This option is
requred when trying to extract the .msi files.
Passed arguments to Windows Installer. See above for details. This option
is requred when trying to extract the .msi files.
The directory to which the .msi/.mst files will be extracted. Long path names need
to have their quote strings "escaped" (\"). The property must be set when trying to
extract the .msi files. If the specified directory doesn't exist, it will be created.
Therefore, a sample extraction of msi files from a single file executable might look
like this: setup.exe /a /s /v"EXTRACTFILES=c:\temp\msifiles"
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