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Glenn Maxwell 10,781 Reputation points
2021-02-19T02:12:45.173+00:00

Hi Experts

i am new to configuration manager. i have a third party application already installed on most of my servers. currently the version of it is v3. i would like to upgrade it to version v4. my requirement is if any server doesn't have this application, the application should be installed automatically, if any server is having version v3 it should be updated to version v4. the file is msi file. Experts guide me on this.

i would test the below switch, correct me if the switch is wrong
msiexec /i "Applicationv4.msi" AGREETOLICENSE=Yes /quiet /l*v %windir%\applog.log /noreboot

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  1. Amandayou-MSFT 11,056 Reputation points
    2021-02-22T05:57:51.12+00:00

    Hi @Glenn Maxwell ,

    i would test the below switch, correct me if the switch is wrong

    msiexec /i "Applicationv4.msi" AGREETOLICENSE=Yes /quiet /l*v %windir%\applog.log /noreboot

    It seems normal. Besides, we could note one point. If product code of application is different between v3 and v4, kindly run the command. If not, while running the command, we might add the detection rule of version, please refer to the following screenshot:

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  1. Gary Blok 1,736 Reputation points
    2021-02-19T04:38:59.797+00:00

    You're going to want a test machine with app v3 installed, ideally a VM that you can take a snap shot of, then start testing the command line until you get the right one.

    typically the generic command is
    msiexec /i ApplicationName.MSI /qn

    The vendor for your application will have information on other parameters you can pass in. If you have orca, you can open the MSI and poke around to learn more too.

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