[chef] Re: Silent installations via Chef in Windows

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Kenneth Barry 
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> I can't find much information about this. Been struggling to get it working.
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> Anyone aware of a tutorial on how to do this right, or even, what
> alternatives they are using to perform installations?

Are you talking about the silent installation of software in Windows?
What software are you trying to install?

For MSIs, msiexec /qn has generally worked for me (using either the
windows_package resource or the built-in 'package' resource in Chef
11.12.x) but results vary based on how terrible the software vendor
is... Oracle Client for example is one that refuses to install
unattended.

- Julian

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