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  • 1.  Silent install of mspsetup

    Posted Jan 25, 2013 06:59 PM
    Hello Everybody,

    My organization is in the process of implementing Clarity. My task is to automate the installation through our system management system. I have extracted the MSI's from the mspsetup.exe. This gave me the 2 folders. The SCHEDULE CONNECT part and the PROJECT INTERFACE part. Within PROJECT INTERFACE there are more MSI's. When I extract PROJECT INTERFACE i get CA Clarity PPM Microsoft Project Interface.msi with a system 32 folder and a CA Clarity PPM MSPInterface folder. When I run CA Clarity PPM Microsoft Project Interface.msi silently everything works fine until it gets to the part where it actually installs the Clarity Add-In. It calls up setup.exe which is located within the CA Clarity PPM MSPInterface\addIn folder. When this happens a window pops up displaying "Publisher cannot be verified" and asks the user if they would like to "install" or "don't install". I would like to prevent this window from appearing so that the user doesn't have the option of clicking "don't install". Does anybody know how to accomplish this? Any tips or direction to already posted information would be great. Thanks.


  • 2.  RE: Silent install of mspsetup

    Posted Jan 26, 2013 03:03 PM
    The way I recall it from old boards is that there were two instellers:
    The msi files are installed with Microsoft installer and you coud use the options it has.
    The setup.exe used installshield and you could use the installshield options to get silent install.

    Try /S /v/qn

    Martti K.


  • 3.  RE: Silent install of mspsetup
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    Posted Feb 06, 2013 05:37 PM

    another_martink wrote:

    The way I recall it from old boards is that there were two instellers:
    The msi files are installed with Microsoft installer and you coud use the options it has.
    The setup.exe used installshield and you could use the installshield options to get silent install.

    Try /S /v/qn

    Martti K.
    Perhaps a more accurate thread title would be "Silent Install of CA CAClarityAddIn Add-In"?

    On endpoints with Office 2010, an attempt at a silent, unattended install causes Interactive Services Detection to display a dialog announcing A program running on this computer is trying to display a message. Click View the message and you'll see this Microsoft Office Customization Installer dialog:



    That's the dialog cwalkerdhcs and I wish to avoid. And if that full stop isn't enough, I get this dialog after the install finishes:



    Whee! Any suggestions on how to avoid either dialog are welcome!


  • 4.  RE: Silent install of mspsetup

    Posted Feb 07, 2013 01:17 PM
    Yes the MS Project connector goes into the MS Office environment which is quite different form installing just the connector for OWB.

    Martti K.


  • 5.  RE: Silent install of mspsetup

    Posted Feb 06, 2013 05:12 PM

    cwalkerdhcs wrote:

    Hello Everybody,

    My organization is in the process of implementing Clarity. My task is to automate the installation through our system management system. I have extracted the MSI's from the mspsetup.exe. This gave me the 2 folders. The SCHEDULE CONNECT part and the PROJECT INTERFACE part. Within PROJECT INTERFACE there are more MSI's. When I extract PROJECT INTERFACE i get CA Clarity PPM Microsoft Project Interface.msi with a system 32 folder and a CA Clarity PPM MSPInterface folder. When I run CA Clarity PPM Microsoft Project Interface.msi silently everything works fine until it gets to the part where it actually installs the Clarity Add-In. It calls up setup.exe which is located within the CA Clarity PPM MSPInterface\addIn folder. When this happens a window pops up displaying "Publisher cannot be verified" and asks the user if they would like to "install" or "don't install". I would like to prevent this window from appearing so that the user doesn't have the option of clicking "don't install". Does anybody know how to accomplish this? Any tips or direction to already posted information would be great. Thanks.
    Hello cwalkerdhcs!

    Have you had any success in achieving a silent, unattended install? I don't think it respectful to force security decisions on end users and have had very little exposure to these VSTO projects. Has this add-in been signed by Computer Associates? If so, is it possible to install a missing certificate to the Trusted Publishers store and accomplish a silent, unattended install?


  • 6.  RE: Silent install of mspsetup

    Posted Aug 15, 2013 11:24 AM
    Hi,
    today I had the same problem. All you need to do is to disable "setupVSTO" custom action in the programs .msi file.
    You can do it by creating Transformation file for original msi file or modify the original one.
    cherrs.


  • 7.  RE: Silent install of mspsetup

    Posted Dec 03, 2013 04:51 PM
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    homiczyl:
    Hi, today I had the same problem. All you need to do is to disable "setupVSTO" custom action in the programs .msi file. You can do it by creating Transformation file for original msi file or modify the original one. cherrs.

    How do you disable setupVSTO?  I opened the MSI in Orca and found "setupVSTO" in CustomAction, but you can only modify the values, not disable it.