Visual Studio 2003 Silent Installation

The installation of Visual Studio 2003 supports a silent installation via the file "setup.ini" (which you can create using setup.exe).
Nevertheless this type of silent installation lacks the ability to be split into components (like in NetInstall) and performs an unwanted reboot.

There is a way to install Visual Studio unattended with just the provided MSI files:

1) open the "vs_setup.msi" file with Orca an generated a transform with the following modifications:

PROPERTY TABLE
USERNAME: your_username
COMPANYNAME: your_companyname
PIDKEY: your_serialnumber
VSEXTUI: 1
SETUPWINDOW: 65842

2) open the "msdn.msi" file with Orca an generated a transform with the following modifications:

LAUNCHCONDITIONS TABLE
- delete entry "Privileged"
- delete entry "Installed or (SETUP_EXE="yes") or (ProductState=1)"

3) start the installation with the following batch or split the installation into components in your softwaredeployment tool:

Code:

@echo off
rem prerequites
echo installing prerequisites...
D:\VS2003\PRE\IE60SP1\ie6setup.exe /c:"ie6wzd.exe /Q:A /R:N /S:""#e"""
D:\VS2003\PRE\dotNetFramework\dotnetfx.exe /q /c:"msiexec /i netfx.msi REBOOT=ReallySuppress /qb"
D:\VS2003\PRE\JSharpRedistCore\vjredist.exe /q /c:"msiexec /i jsredist.msi REBOOT=ReallySuppress /qb"
msiexec /i D:\VS2003\PRE\bootstrap.msi /qb REBOOT=ReallySuppress
msiexec /i D:\VS2003\PRE\weccom.msi /qb REBOOT=ReallySuppress

rem vs.net
echo installing visual studio...
msiexec /i D:\VS2003\VS\vs_setup.msi TRANSFORMS=D:\VS2003\VS\Vs7UnattendDSM.mst ALLUSERS=1 /qb
rem start /wait D:\VS2003\VS\setup\setup.exe /unattendfile D:\VS2003\VS\vs_dsm.ini

rem msdn lib
echo installing msdn library...
msiexec /i D:\VS2003\MSDN\msdn.msi TRANSFORMS=MsdnLibraryDSM.mst ADDLOCAL=ALL ALLUSERS=1 /qb

(Please adjust the name of the transforms and the paths)

4) Done! Smile

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