how to pause 5 minutes in this script

ginger6412 · 2014-05-28T01:11:38.000Z

i have a script to install multiple msi package but I want to pause 5 minutes for the first msi installation then continue to install second msi package after 5 minutes: Please help. ( cannot find out script center in the community listed below so I place in the support session)

I am not sure where to put start-sleep…

$msi = @(‘C:\test\drive1.Wrapper.msi’,‘C:\test\driver2.msi’ )

foreach ($msifile in $msi)

{Start-Process -FilePath “$env:systemroot\system32\msiexec.exe” -ArgumentList “/i $msifile /qn /passive” -Wait}

simonmatthews · 2014-05-28T01:18:27.000Z

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1741490/how-to-tell-powershell-to-wait-for-each-command-to-end-before-starting-the-next

cazibrasga5234 · 2014-05-28T01:27:05.000Z

$msi = @('C:\test\drive1.Wrapper.msi','C:\test\driver2.msi' )

foreach ($msifile in $msi) {
    Start-Process -FilePath "$env:systemroot\system32\msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList "/i $msifile /qn /passive" -Wait

 **Start-Sleep 300**
}

ginger6412 · 2014-05-28T01:45:03.000Z

Cazi: That start-sleep 300 will let the first msi run, then the second msi will run after 5 minutes?

cazibrasga5234 · 2014-05-28T02:25:34.000Z

ginger8990:

Cazi: That start-sleep 300 will let the first msi run, then the second msi will run after 5 minutes?

Yes. The instructions contained within the curly brackets will run for each of the MSIs.

ginger6412 · 2014-05-28T15:15:45.000Z

Hi, Cazi:

I did work fine but only got this error

: The term ‘’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling

of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At line:8 char:2

}
~
CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (:String) , CommandNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

craigduff · 2014-05-29T10:59:05.000Z

ginger, that error indicates a problem with line 8, the script Cazi gave you isn’t even 8 lines long. Did you modified it? Please post your script.

ginger6412 · 2014-05-30T01:02:27.000Z

it is working but only start-sleep is not working well.

ginger6412 · 2014-05-30T21:42:29.000Z

I am not sure what happened now the script only run the first one and not run the second installation:

$msi = @(‘C:\test\drive1.Wrapper.msi’,‘C:\test\driver2.msi’ )

foreach ($msifile in $msi)

{Start-Process -FilePath “$env:systemroot\system32\msiexec.exe” -ArgumentList “/i $msifile /qn /passive” -Wait }