Controlling the Windows Installer Package

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Controlling Windows Installer packages

The GCF/Project Portal distribution package includes Microsoft Windows Installer (.msi) packages for the GCF/Project Portal processors, vault extensions, and the GCF Remote Access Web Service. To install a package with the default options, double-click the file to open it with the Windows Installer program. The program will present an installation wizard for manually choosing available installation options.

If you want to install a package on many computers with Active Directory or another automated deployment method, run the Windows Installer program in a command window with the optional command-line arguments and switches to specify the installation options you need.

The command-line arguments supported by the GCF/Project Portal installation packages are listed in the following table:

Windows Installer package command-line arguments
Argument	Description
EDMSERVER	Meridian Enterprise server name
PPSHARENAME	GCF/Project Portal share name for Meridian Project Portal
GCFVAULT	Meridian Enterprise vault name
SHARENAME	Meridian Enterprise vault share name
TARGETAPPPOOL	IIS application pool name
TARGETVDIR	IIS virtual folder name
TARGETSITE	IIS website ID in Local Machine (LM) format. To find the IDs of the existing sites, run the following in a command window: C:\Windows\System21\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list site The ID of the default website is always 1.
TARGETDIR	Optional path of the destination application folder. If omitted, the default folder will be used.
SQLDB	SQL Server database name
SQLSERVER	SQL Server instance name

The Windows Installer program’s command-line options can be used together with the installation package command-line arguments to further control the installation, such as for visibility, restart, logging, and repair options. Refer to the Windows Installer help (msiexec /help or /?) for the command-line options that are supported.

Note The installer options and the package command-line arguments (from the preceding table) must be followed by the display options, restart options, and log options for the installation to work.

Following are examples of typical command-line installations run in passive (progress bar only) mode.

To install the Meridian Enterprise extensions:

msiexec /i "Package-X86.msi" /passive

To install the GCF/Project Portal processors:

msiexec /i "BCMeridianGCF.msi" TARGETDIR="D:\GCF" SHARENAME="Meridian"
GCFVAULT="MyVault" EDMSERVER="MyServer" /passive

To install the GCF/Project Portal processors:

msiexec /i "BCMeridianGCFProjectPortal.msi" TARGETDIR="D:\GCF" SHARENAME="Meridian"
GCFVAULT="MyVault" EDMSERVER="MyServer" SQLDB="GCFSQL" SQLSERVER="MySQLServer"
PPSHARENAME="ContractorPortal" /passive

To install the GCF Remote Access Web Service:

msiexec /i "BCMeridianGCFSPRemoteWS.msi" TARGETAPPPOOL="DefaultAppPool"
TARGETSITE="/LM/W3SVC/1" TARGETVDIR="GCFRemoteWS" /passive