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Table 7‑8. MSI Command-Line Options and MSI Properties
MSI Option or
Property Description
/qn
Instructs the MSI installer not to display the installer wizard pages.
For example, you might want to install Horizon Agent silently and use only default setup options and
features:
VMware-viewagent-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s /v"/qn"
Alternatively, you can use the /qb option to display a basic progress dialog box in a noninteractive,
automated installation.
The /qn or /qb option is required to run a silent installation.
For information about additional /q parameters, see the Microsoft Dev Center website.
INSTALLDIR
Specifies an alternative installation path for the Horizon 7 component.
Use the format INSTALLDIR=path to specify an installation path. You can ignore this MSI property if you
want to install the Horizon 7 component in the default path.
This MSI property is optional.
ADDLOCAL
Determines the component-specific options to install.
In an interactive installation, the Horizon 7 installer displays custom setup options that you can select or
deselect. In a silent installation, you can use the ADDLOCAL property to selectively install individual setup
options by specifying the options on the command line. Options that you do not explicitly specify are not
installed.
In both interactive and silent installations, the Horizon 7 installer automatically installs certain features.
You cannot use ADDLOCAL to control whether or not to install these non-optional features.
Type ADDLOCAL=ALL to install all custom setup options that can be installed during an interactive
installation, including those that are installed by default and those that you must select to install, except
NGVC. NGVC and SVIAgent are mutually exclusive.
The following example installs Core, BlastProtocol, PCoIP, UnityTouch, VmVideo, PSG, and all features
that are supported on the guest operating system: VMware-viewagent-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s /v"/qn
ADDLOCAL=ALL"
If you do not use the ADDLOCAL property, the custom setup options that are installed by default and the
automatically installed features are installed. Custom setup options that are off (unselected) by default are
not installed.
The following example installs Core, BlastProtocol, PCoIP, UnityTouch, VmVideo, PSG, and the on-by-
default custom setup options that are supported on the guest operating system: VMware-viewagent-
y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s /v"/qn"
To specify individual setup options, type a comma-separated list of setup option names. Do not use
spaces between names. Use the format ADDLOCAL=value,value,value....
You must include Core when you use the ADDLOCAL=value,value,value... property.
The following example installs Horizon Agent with the Core, BlastProtocol, PCoIP, UnityTouch, VmVideo,
PSG, Instant Clone Agent, and Virtual Printing features:
VMware-viewagent-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s /v"/qn ADDLOCAL=Core,NGVC,ThinPrint"
The preceding example does not install other components, even those that are installed by default
interactively.
The ADDLOCAL MSI property is optional.
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