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[Jim Bassett]

We have MSI installations that have a license agreement and two input screens, one for folder placement of some files, and a product password.

We can create an “Administer Installation Point” for our installation by using /a and to allow pushing the product from the “Administer Installation Point” to various PCs on the network via Active Directory we allow the admin to use /q with arguments that relate to the two input screens mentioned above. Doing this results in the admin not seeing the license agreement and we want to at least force the license agreement to appear for an “AIP” type of install while still passing the two arguments. In other words other than the license agreement using the /q still performs a silent install to the AIP.

I tried installing MS Office to a AIP with silent install and it won’t allow me to do this. How is this being done?

[Glytzhkof]

There is this MsiProcessMessage function that may be usable for this purpose: http://msdn.microsof...cessmessage.asp

[Zweitze]

How about showing the license to the administrator during the Administrative setup?
End-users (that install from the network image) still won't see it, but you'll need a different approach for that situation: end-users never see anything for assigned applications in Active Directory.

If you want to show a license dialog in that case too, it should be done by the installed software, on the first time being run.

[Stefan Krueger]

Not sure I understand what you want to do. Do you want to display the license agreement while creating the admin image or while pushing the setup the the client desktiops using active directory? I think the latter doesn't make sense (there's nobody there to view the license agreement to click Accept in an unattended install)