Mailbag: How can I perform a silent installation of Visio for Enterprise Architects?

Question:

I have seen your previous posts about how to perform silent and unattended installs of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. I would like to be able to include Visio for Enterprise Architects (which ships with higher end versions of Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003 and 2005). How can I do that?

Answer:

You can use the following command line to perform a silent install of Visio for Enterprise Architects for Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003:

msiexec.exe /i <full path to visio.msi> /qn

You can also substitute /qb if you want to perform an unattended installation (which provides a small progress bar during installation with a cancel button), or /qb! if you want to perform an unattended installation with no cancel button.

You can use the following command line to perform a silent install of Visio for Enterprise Architects for Visual Studio 2005:

msiexec.exe /i <full path to visvea.msi> /qn

You can also substitute /qb or /qb! as described above.

In addition, because the above command lines call msiexec.exe directly, you can use any of the standard Windows Installer command line parameters.

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 13, 2006
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  July 18, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 11, 2011
  I need to install Visual Studio 2005 silently on many machines ( Windows 7 x64 and x86). I created unattended file, and then used it to install. It works fine except that i am not able to know the status of installation. I want user to know that something is happening. What switches i need to use to get progress bar. qb does not seem to work. Please Help me. I am stuck.

• Anonymous
  September 12, 2011
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