IMPORTANT: Request silent application info here

[garlin]

Try /qn instead of /qb?

 

[tired-it]

Try /qn instead of /qb?

Yep. Looks like /qn was the winner this time. What is the difference between that and /qb?

 

[garlin]

/qn is entirely silent, /qb or /passive are allowed to display something onscreen.

MSIEXEC format has a set of pre-defined switches, but the devs writing the package are expected to follow the spec, and some don't. Most Office suites have some annoying post-install popup with "Click here to dismiss."

Post-Setup (Before logon) will hang, because you're not allowed to interact with the running process. Tasks are running as SYSTEM user, and therefore require security protections.

 

[tired-it]

Hopefully I did not overlook anything, but if anyone wants to do a silent install of Adobe Reader with a transform file I used a modified version of garlin's method to do so. Basically it works like this:

1. Download the Adobe Reader MUI EXE from Adobe's Enterprise site.
2. Use Winrar or 7zip to extract the EXE into a folder.
3. Download and install the Acrobat Customization Tool.
4. Apply silent install switches and other customizations using the tool.
5. Save the package. This creates a transform file within the extracted Adobe Reader directory.
6. Copy the whole folder to the root of the mounted image directory.
7. Use a BAT file placed into Post-Setup Machine with no parameters to install.

Here's an example of what is in the BAT file:

@echo off
for %%i in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do (
    if exist "%%i:\office" (
        set DRIVE=%%i
        goto :EXIT
    )
)

:EXIT
cd /d %DRIVE%:\reader && msiexec /i "AcroPro.msi" LANG_LIST=en_US TRANSFORMS="AcroPro.mst" /qn

All that's left is to cleanup the folder after install. Still working on that part. I was using this to cleanup the leftover folder:

/c rmdir /S /Q "C:\reader"

However, this only cleaned up files in the folder, which left an empty folder.

 

[tired-it]

Hopefully I did not overlook anything, but if anyone wants to do a silent install of Adobe Reader with a transform file I used a modified version of @garlin's method to do so. Basically it works like this:

Update: Moving the cleanup command from before-logon to after-logon gets rid of the Adobe folder entirely. This means you can have a full silent install with cleanup.