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Table 3. Remote Experience Agent Silent Installation Features and Interactive Installation Options
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Silent Installation Feature Installation Option in an Interactive Installation
UnityTouch Unity Touch
MMR Win7 Multimedia Redirection (MMR)
MSI Command-Line Options for the Remote Experience Agent Installer
To install the Remote Experience Agent silently, you must use Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
command-line options and properties. The installer is an MSI program and uses standard MSI features.
For details about MSI, see the Microsoft Web site. For MSI command-line options, see the Microsoft
Developer Network (MSDN) Library Web site and search for MSI command-line options. To see MSI
command-line usage, you can open a command prompt on the virtual machine where you are performing
the installation and type msiexec /?.
NOTE The INSTALLDIR option is not available with the Remote Experience Agent installer. You cannot
change the installation directory.
To run an installer silently, you begin by silencing the bootstrap program that extracts the installer into a
temporary directory and starts an interactive installation.
At the command line, you must enter command-line options that control the installer's bootstrap program.
Table 4. Command-Line Options for an Installer's Bootstrap Program
Option Description
/s
Disables the bootstrap splash screen and extraction dialog, which prevents the display of
interactive dialogs.
For example: VMware-Horizon-View-5.3-Remote-Experience-Agent-x64-y.y-
xxxxxx.exe /s
The /s option is required to run a silent installation.
/v"
MSI_command_line_options"
Instructs the installer to pass the double-quote-enclosed string that you enter at the command
line as a set of options for MSI to interpret. You must enclose your command-line entries
between double quotes. Place a double quote after the /v and at the end of the command line.
For example: VMware-Horizon-View-5.3-Remote-Experience-Agent-x64-y.y-
xxxxxx.exe /s /v"command_line_options"
The /v"command_line_options" option is required to run a silent installation.
You control the remainder of a silent installation by passing command-line options and MSI property values
to the MSI installer, msiexec.exe. The MSI installer uses the values and options that you enter in the
command line to interpret installation options that are specific to the Remote Experience Agent installer.
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