Silent installations - additional info for network administrators

Sometimes an IT administrator needs to install TerrSet silently via command-line to push it to multiple machines.  If there are problems with the silent install, it may be because some parameters that need to be set, if the default ones aren’t working.  The installation compiler changed between TerrSet2020 and TerrSet liberaGIS, which means that the parameters for the silent installation also changed.

For TerrSet liberaGIS:

start /b /wait "" "%~dp0Setup_TerrSet_liberaGIS_20_02.exe" /SILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /ALLUSERS /LOG="C:\TEMP\terrset_install_Log.TXT" DESTDIR="C:\Program Files (x86)\TerrSet_liberaGIS"

Note: in the above example, it was known that the c:\temp folder existed on the remote computer.

For TerrSet2020 and TerrSet v.1:

Here is a sample command line that could be used (from a cmd prompt, running as administrator):
d:\pass\setup_terrset_2020_19_08_b.exe /S /L="d:\pass\ter_install_log.txt" TARGETDIR="c:\program files (x86)\terrset2020" USERNAME="TONY" ALLUSERS=TRUE COMPLETE=TRUE SILENT=TRUE QUICKLAUNCHDIR="D:\pass"

Note: this example used d:\pass instead of c:\windows\temp to eliminate any potential problems related to administrative privileges that the user name might have on the virtual machine it was being tested on. That probably wasn't necessary, I was just trying to reduce the number of things that were uncertain in the test.

For more details and examples, see https://forums.clarklabs.org/hc/en-us/articles/12995347566227-Silent-installations-additional-info-for-network-administrators.