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Appendix A: Options for MSI Installations
Extracting MSI/MST Files from the Dragon setup.exe
Some minor releases of Dragon do not include an MSI file. Instead, the file is part of the setup.exe file. You
can run silent installations from the command line with msiexec.exe or setup.exe – you don’t need to extract
the .msi and .mst files. Use the following information if you are comfortable using .msi installers.
When you are using the setup.exe method, you must ensure that all flags and properties are within the
same set of quotes, directly after /v, without a space.
Using .MST files, you can tailor the MSI installation without changing the setup.exe file that Nuance
provides.
The following sample command line extracts the Dragon 14.msi file and the .mst files used for installing
Dragon:
setup.exe /a /s /v"EXTRACTFILES=c:\temp\MSIfiles /qn"
Use the options below to extract .msi/.mst files from setup.exe. These options do not install any files, but
rather extract an installable set of files into the server directory you specify. You can then use the extracted
.MSI and .MST files in a command line to install Dragon.
Option Description
/a
An administrative installation installs a source image of
the application onto the network. For details, see
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367541
(v=vs.85).aspx.
/v"<msiexec options>" Passes msiexec options to Windows Installer. See
“MSI options for Dragon installations” on page 118 for
details. This option is required when extracting the
.msi files.
EXTRACTFILES=C:\<fullpath>\ Indicates the directory where the extracted .msi/.mst
files are to be written. Enclose long path names
containing spaces in quotation marks. Be sure to
escape the each quotation mark with a backslash: \" .
This property is required to extract the .msi files. If the
directory you specify does not exist, the installer
creates it.
Here is a sample command line to extract .msi files
from a single executable:
setup.exe /a /s /v"EXTRACTFILES-
S=c:\temp\msifiles"
/l<Windows Language Code>
Creates an MST file for the language specified (for
example, 1031.mst). The language codes supported
for installing Dragon are:
1031=German
1033=English
1034=Spanish
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