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Silent installations are installations that run without an end-user interface. End users can run your package silently in any of the following ways:

1. Instruct them to pass the silent parameters via the command line

To run the installation in silent mode, you would need to pass the /qn parameter to the MSI package.

For example, msiexec /I C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\Sample\sample.msi /qn

If your release includes a setup.exe launcher, pass the /s parameter to run the setup.exe silently and pass the /v/qn parameter to run the MSI package silently.

For example, C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\Sample\setup.exe /s /v/qn.

2. Provide your end users with a modified Setup.ini

You can specify the above command-line arguments via the Setup.ini file so that end users do not have to manually pass these arguments to the setup. This parameters can be specified within the InstallShield IDE under the Releases view -> Setup.exe tab -> MSI Command Line Arguments

Alternatively, you can manually modify the setup.ini for an uncompressed release by following the below steps:

a. Locate the Setup.ini file in the Disk1 folder in the location where your release is built.
b. Open the Setup.ini file using a text editor such as Notepad and look for the [Startup] section.
c. In the 'CmdLine=' section, set 'CmdLine=' to the /s /v/qn arguments. For example, CmdLine=/s /v/qn.

Because the Setup.ini file is passed to setup.exe at run time, the setup runs silently when the user clicks on the setup.exe.

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