Install Visio and other programs remotely

02-02-10

By using Sysinternals PSEXEC I installed Visio remotely unattended.

Copy the visio files to the PC in question
Edit the setup.ini file for visio located in files\setup\setup.ini add:

[Options]
; The option section is used for specifying individual Installer Properties.
USERNAME=Your Name
COMPANYNAME=Your Company

Then fire up a command prompt and execute command:

PSEXEC \\PCNAME -S -E -I MSIEXEC /PASSIVE /QB /I C:\TEMP\visio2003\VISSTD.MSI PIDKEY=12345abcde98765zyxwv34567

PCNAME Being the name of the remote PC
C:\TEMP\visio2003\VISSTD.MSI being the path to the VISSTD.MSI package
12345abcde98765zyxwv34567 being your Visio license key

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