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Table 5-4. MSI Properties for Silently Installing a Security Server (Continued)
MSI Property Description Default Value
VDM_SERVER_SS_PCOIP_T
CPPORT
The PCoIP Secure Gateway external TCP port number. This property is
supported only when the security server is installed on Windows Server
2008 R2 or later.
For example: VDM_SERVER_SS_PCOIP_TCPPORT=4172
This property is required if you plan to use the PCoIP Secure Gateway
component.
None
VDM_SERVER_SS_PCOIP_U
DPPORT
The PCoIP Secure Gateway external UDP port number. This property is
supported only when the security server is installed on Windows Server
2008 R2 or later.
For example: VDM_SERVER_SS_PCOIP_UDPPORT=4172
This property is required if you plan to use the PCoIP Secure Gateway
component.
None
Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
To install View components silently, you must use Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) command-line options
and properties. The View component installers are MSI programs and use standard MSI features. You can also
use MSI command-line options to uninstall View components silently.
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 View component computer and type msiexec /?.
To run a View component installer silently, you begin by disabling the bootstrap program that extracts the
installer into a temporary directory and starts an interactive installation.
Table 5-5 shows the command-line options that control the installer's bootstrap program.
Table 5-5. Command-Line Options for a View Component's Bootstrap Program
Option Description
/s
Disables the bootstrap splash screen and extraction dialog, which prevents the display of
interactive dialogs.
For example: VMware-viewconnectionserver- y.y.y - xxxxxx .exe /s
The /s option is required to run a silent installation. In the examples, xxxxxx is the build number
and y.y.y is the version number.
/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-viewagent-
y.y.y - xxxxxx .exe /s /v" command_line_options "
To instruct the MSI installer to interpret a string that contains spaces, enclose the string in two sets
of double quotes. For example, you might want to install the View component in an installation
path name that contains spaces.
For example: VMware-viewconnectionserver- y.y.y -
xxxxxx .exe /s /v" command_line_options INSTALLDIR=""d:\abc\my folder"""
In this example, the MSI installer passes on the installation-directory path and does not attempt
to interpret the string as two command-line options. Note the final double quote that encloses the
entire command line.
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 includes the View component's installation code. The
installer uses the values and options that you enter in the command line to interpret installation choices and
setup options that are specific to the View component.
Table 5-6 shows the command-line options and MSI property values that are passed to the MSI installer.
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