It could be quite significant, but unsafe. You just set this property at the command line: msiexec. And finally, as mentioned above in background information, run an administrative installation of the MSI file to extract files so that extraction doesn't happen locally on each machine. This assumes that you are on a rather fast network, and that file copy happens without too much delay. I suppose a high-latency wireless network could make things slower with small files extracted that have to be copied one by one.
Then you need to follow the prompts and select an extraction location for the files. See superuser. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How can I speed up MSI package install and uninstall?
Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 8 months ago. Active 2 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 9k times. Why is this the case, and what can I do to speed things up? Improve this question. What do you know, I am instantly down-voted for trying to provide some practical and technical advise from the world of deployment to the world of system administration. The advice in this thread is both logically and technically sound as of the time of writing. Constructive criticism welcome. You've essentially written an article on some facets of MSI technology.
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Use the new Fast Install setting in the General Information view to select one or more options that may help reduce the time that is required to install a large Windows Installer package. For example, you can specify that you do not want a system restore point to be saved for your installation. You can also specify that you want the installation to perform file costing, but not any other costing.
Windows Installer 5 includes support for this property. Earlier versions of Windows Installer ignore it. To learn more, see the description of the Fast Install setting. InstallShield offers a new way to secure files, folders, and registry keys for end users who run your product in a locked-down environment: With the new custom InstallShield handling method, InstallShield stores permission information for your product in the custom ISLockPermissions table of the.
InstallShield also adds custom actions to your project to set the permissions. This support is available in Express projects. Previously, the only option that InstallShield offered for setting permissions was to use the traditional Windows Installer handling.
With this option, the permission information is stored in the LockPermissions table of the. The new custom InstallShield handling option offers several advantages over the traditional Windows Installer handling:.
The General Information view has a new Locked-Down Permissions setting that lets you specify whether you want to use the new custom InstallShield handling or the traditional Windows Installer handling for all new permissions that you set for files, folders, and registry keys in your project.
If you have already configured some permissions in your project and then you change the value of this setting, InstallShield lets you specify whether you want to use the alternate handling method for those already-existing permissions. In all new projects, the default value for this setting is the custom InstallShield handling option.
If you upgrade a project from InstallShield Express Edition or earlier to InstallShield Express Edition, the traditional Windows Installer handling option is the default value of this setting. This new setting is available in Express projects. Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information.
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