MapInfo Professional Install Guide - Product Documentation - MapInfo

Silent Installation Procedures for System Administrators
Silent installations allow you to repackage MapInfo Professional for deployment within your
company so your users do not have to enter user- or company-specific information, path
information, a serial number, or an access code.
Note You may also be interested in reviewing the MapInfo Professional Workgroup Guide for file
sharing to use this installation model for deploying MapInfo Professional.
The MapInfo Professional installation setup.exe indicated in the steps below can be found on the
installation CD (d:\) in this directory:
\Install\MI_PRO\DISK1
In general, the silent installation process goes like this:
1. Place the installation CD in the target computer’s disk drive.
2. From the command line on the target computer, type:
[drive and path to setup exe]:setup.exe /s /v"[Parameters for MSI]" for
a silent installation"
where PARAMETERS for MSI are the parameters you set to populate the msiexec .
For example:
d:"\Install\MI_PRO\DISK1\setup.exe /s /v"/qb
INSTALLDIR=\"[PathTo]\MapInfo\OtherThanStandard\Professional 10\"
USERNAME=\"MyUser\" COMPANYNAME=\"MyCompanyName\"
PIDKEY=MySerialNumber ACCD=MyAccessCode"
Note The command line parameters for the installer can not contain "~","/".
The parameter /qb tells the msiexec command to launch the install with a basic interface. That does
not require any user action and allows the user to respond to the UAC in Vista.
There should be no space in between Variable=Content. A space is used as a separator in between
parameters.
Parameters for user information:
USERNAME=User Name
COMPANYNAME=Company Name
Parameters for installation target information:
INSTALLDIR=Install Directory
CRYSTALRINST=False (Use this parameter to decline the installation of Crystal Reports,
installed by default)
Parameters for licensing information:
PIDKEY=Serial Number
ACCD=Access Code
LSNAME=License Server Name
LSPN=License Server Port Number
50 MapInfo Professional 10