silent-installer

For some reason, we are delivering a product with our own install GUI, that means, we will run the msi installation silently background. By using the MSI API "MsiInstallProduct", I can install the product silently, but I have no idea how can I get the progress data of this installation and how can I cancel it. Anyone has some ideas? Here is a sample project that appears to do what you are referring to: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/msiinterop.aspx UPDATE June 2018 : Although the tool shown below is no longer available for download, I found it via Wayback machine. I assume it is OK and legal

I have a setup.exe file generated using installshield suite project (.issuite) file. For an admin or a general user with sufficient privileges, one of our IT admin is able to do a silent installation using - setup.exe /silent However, when tried to push the installs using SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) or using PSEXEC (both use System account to install), the install fails. The install exist with an exit code 3. I did some research around this and found out that system account needs a setup.iss (answer/response) file to write to / read from. Did not quite understand what it means.