Windows Unattended Installation

This page details the steps for unattended installations.

Make sure you have completed the following before performing the steps on this page:

Unattended Installation Overview

Default:

An unattended operation does not prompt the user for input; instead, it gets input from properties passed to the InterSystems IRIS installation file on the command line.
These properties are described in the Command Line Reference.
No messages are displayed during unattended installation, upgrade, reinstallation, or uninstallation.

Default:

Before beginning your installation, perform the necessary pre-installation steps.
Determine your strategy for installing an external web server:
- The easiest option is to install Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) before beginning the installation. The installer can auto-configure this web server.
- If you intend on using a different web server or manually configuring the IIS web server, review Installing a Web Server for necessary steps that must be performed prior to the installation.

Default:

You do not need to include any additional properties to perform a basic unattended installation. The installer will use the default options.

Review details on using command-line properties.
- Use the form: PROPERTYNAME=argument.
- Properties must be upper-case.
- Arguments are not case-sensitive.
- Each property must be separated by one or more spaces.
Refer to the table of Command-Line Properties available for unattended installations.
Make a note of any properties you will use for your unattended installation.

Default:

The ADDLOCAL property is used to determine which features to install.
If it is left blank, it defaults to ADDLOCAL=ALL which installs all features.
For a basic development environment, there is no need to include this property. All features will be installed.

Review details on specifying custom-installable features.
- Use the ADDLOCAL property to specify which features to include.
- Specify the featurename of a component group, followed by the featurename components within that group separated by a comma. Repeat this for each component group to create a comma-separated list.
Refer to the table of Custom-Installable Features available for installation.

Default:

Use the following command:

<path>\<installer>.exe /instance <instancename> /q{b|n} <properties>

Variable	Description
<path>	The path to the InterSystems IRIS installation file.
<installer>.exe	The name of the InterSystems IRIS installation file.
<instancename>	The name for the new InterSystems IRIS instance. If omitted, the default value is IRIS, but you must specify a different value if there are one or more instances already installed on the machine.
/qb or /qn	Whether to display a progress bar during the installation (/qb) or to perform a fully silent installation (/qn).
<properties>	The properties to passing to the installer (see the Command-Line Properties table).

Replace <properties> with any properties you would like to include in the installation.
Use the ADDLOCAL property to specify which features you would like to install.

Examples:

Install an instance of InterSystems IRIS with the default instance name in an installation directory named C:\InterSystems\MyIris on a 64–bit windows system:
```
C:\downloads\IRIS-<version_number>-win_x64.exe /qn INSTALLDIR=C:\InterSystems\MyIris
```
Install an instance of InterSystems IRIS with the instance name IrisA:
```
C:\downloads\IRIS-<version_number>-win_x64.exe /instance IrisA /qn
```

Install a subset of features using the ADDLOCAL property:

C:\downloads\IRIS-<version_number>-win_x64.exe /qn ADDLOCAL=cube, server, server_user

Default: