[wix-users] Identify Silent Install Completion

[Douglas, Keith (STATCAN)]

I implemented a service a few years ago that brokers installations. I had program to wait for the msiexec process to exit, and catch three classes of exit codes:
0: success
3010: restart required
everything else: error


Keith Douglas

Programmer Analyst, Information Technology Operations Divison
Statistics Canada / Government of Canada 
keith.douglas at canada.ca / 613-854-5589

Programmeur Analyste, Division des opérations des technologies de l'information
Statistiques Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
keith.douglas at canada.ca / 613-854-5589


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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Identify Silent Install Completion

“start” is a command line thing, not a PowerShell thing. I’m sure there must be a (more complicated) way of doing it in PowerShell, but I can’t help you with that.

From: Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com>
Sent: 25 April 2018 12:42
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Identify Silent Install Completion

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<mailto: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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