Comments on: Silently Installing QuickBooks 2008

By: Brian Reich

Brian Reich — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:51:47 +0000

Matt,

Unfortunately I don’t have access to QB 2011, so I don’t really know how to answer your question. A lot of times the setup.exe is just a front-end command for the MSI install. You might be able to find out what the options might look like by running setup.exe /?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:19:22 +0000

I was looking over this and I noticed that it uses the MSI to run the install. When I run your files, it doesn’t fully install the software. Do you happen to know how to make it work with the Setup.exe ? I’m using QuickBooks Small Business Accounting 2011.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:18:35 +0000

For Richards install method, approximately how long does this install take to complete? I run this and the computer thinks for a bit and then appears to do nothing (which is obviously what a silent install does), but I am unable to tell when it is completed. I watched task manager and the msiexec was up for a bit and then stopped running, but nothing else appears to be going. I let it sit for bout 5 min but the program still fails when run. Thoughts?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:17:54 +0000

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:45:45 +0000

The only way I have been able to do this is by using the setup.exe, not the msi.

“setup.exe” /s /v CKBOX_GDS=0 AgreeToLicense=Yes MULTIUSERINSTALL=1 QB_LICENSENUM=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxx QB_PRODUCTNUM=xxx-xxx /qn

I use AutoIT with LanDesk to deploy. If you packaged this using autoit, you can use a ZAP file to deploy via GPO I believe.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:20:49 +0000

You have To call the MSI with /QN otherwise quickbooks will not install unless you mess around in the MSI script. However you will likely have problems with apps once it installs… specifically ISW.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:18:49 +0000

I’m running into the same problem as Les.

I’m trying to install Quickbooks 2009 Accounting Edition. When I do a comparison of what the install.bat installs and what a regular install put in I get a difference of 43 items. Any thoughts?

By: Les

Les — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:34:08 +0000

Thank you for making this available. If I run the unattended, it only partially installs – but no error messages.

Database manager installs, but QB doesn’t. The files are copied over, but it doesn’t show up in Add/Remove, and if I run the executable, it errors and instructs me to do a repair.

If I run the same msi, and manually put in the same options, it installs fine.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Les