[wix-users] Identify Silent Install Completion

[Ven H]

Thank you Mark. But when I execute the above command from PowerShell, I get
an error that "A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts an
argument '/qn'". Not sure what I am doing wrong.

Regards,
Venkatesh

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 4:39 PM, Mark Itzcovitz <Mark.Itzcovitz at ingenta.com>
wrote:

> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/2005/11/15/waiting-
> for-msiexec-exe-to-finish/
>
> start /wait msiexec.exe /qn /i <MSI> /l*vs MSILog.log
>
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> Subject: [wix-users] Identify Silent Install Completion
>
> If I execute silent installation of MSI using the command *msiexec /qn /i
> <MSI> /l*vs MSILog.log* from the command line or powershell, I am not sure
> how to understand it is completed or not. Currently, I keep refreshing to
> check if the log file size has changed from 0 to a considerable size. Is
> there a better way to identify if silent installation completed or not
> (both manually & programmatically)? Please help.
>
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