Run MsiExec from PowerShell with Argument

is-km · 2019-08-08T13:25:18.000Z

I get the following PopUP when running the Powershell command.
Can you help me here anybody?
Thank you for the help

Start-Process -FilePath "$env:systemroot\system32\msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList "/i `"c:/spi-setup/Antivirus/SecurepointAntivirusPro_x64_de.msi`" TID=`"KundenID`" ACCEPTLICENSEAGREEMENT=`"y`" ACCEPTPRIVACYPOLICY=`"yes`" /n /passive /l:c:/spi-setup/Antivirus/setuplog.txt" -Wait

Neally · 2019-08-08T13:30:43.000Z

ok, do you have a question or how can we help?

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Evan7191 · 2019-08-08T13:39:52.000Z

You don’t need to escape the question marks. You can use single and double quotes.

Start-Process -FilePath "$env:systemroot\system32\msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList '/i "c:/spi-setup/Antivirus/SecurepointAntivirusPro_x64_de.msi" TID="KundenID" ACCEPTLICENSEAGREEMENT="y" ACCEPTPRIVACYPOLICY="yes" /n /passive /l:c:/spi-setup/Antivirus/setuplog.txt' -Wait

is-km · 2019-08-08T14:19:24.000Z

Unfortunately that did not help, I edited the post

Evan7191 · 2019-08-08T15:02:56.000Z

That message means that one or more of the parameters is incorrect. Usually the general parameters go before the parameters that are specific to the installation package.

Have you tried this?

Start-Process -FilePath "$env:systemroot\system32\msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList '/i "c:/spi-setup/Antivirus/SecurepointAntivirusPro_x64_de.msi" /qn /l:c:\spi-setup\Antivirus\setuplog.txt TID="KundenID" ACCEPTLICENSEAGREEMENT="y" ACCEPTPRIVACYPOLICY="yes"' -Wait

is-km · 2019-08-08T15:10:00.000Z

Unfortunately, there is also the popup

Neally · 2019-08-08T15:13:23.000Z

maybe try to spell the parameter out in an argument list like this

$Arguments = @(
    "/i"
    "/qn"
    "/norestart"
    "/L*v"
)
Start-Process "msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList $Arguments -Wait -NoNewWindow

alex3031 · 2019-08-08T16:08:48.000Z

It might be that it is looking for an array of arguments. I might also try single quotes inside instead of escaping the double quotes.

mparrish2 · 2019-08-08T16:49:03.000Z

From the message that’s coming up it looks to either have a switch (option) set that is either invalid or being read incorrectly. Here is the steps I would take to solve this issue.

Use a normal command line (cmd) interface to run the command without the powershell bits. Just to make sure that command works the way you are expecting it to.
Try chunking the entire argument list like so

Start-Process -FilePath "$env:systemroot\system32\msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList '/i "c:/spi-setup/Antivirus/SecurepointAntivirusPro_x64_de.msi" TID="KundenID" ACCEPTLICENSEAGREEMENT="y" ACCEPTPRIVACYPOLICY="yes" /n /passive /l:c:/spi-setup/Antivirus/setuplog.txt' -Wait

I don’t know if that will work for you or not, but at least it will show you where the problem is.

Evan7191 · 2019-08-08T17:02:40.000Z

Have you tried running it without any quiet/passive parameters to see if it installs properly? If that still doesn’t work, one of the custom parameters may be causing the issue.

Start-Process -FilePath "$env:systemroot\system32\msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList '/i "c:/spi-setup/Antivirus/SecurepointAntivirusPro_x64_de.msi"  TID="KundenID" ACCEPTLICENSEAGREEMENT="y" ACCEPTPRIVACYPOLICY="yes"' -Wait

ef-laser · 2019-08-12T10:08:07.000Z

This should work:

Start-Process -FilePath "$env:systemroot\system32\msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList '/i', 'C:\Spi-Setup\Antivirus\SecurepointAntivirusPro_x64_de.msi', '/qn', '/l', 'c:\spi-setup\Antivirus\setuplog.txt', 'TID="KundenID"', 'ACCEPTLICENSEAGREEMENT="yes"', 'ACCEPTPRIVACYPOLICY="yes"' -Wait -NoNewWindow