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Microsoft Expression Web - 5/11/2007 6:58:06 PM

srochford

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Does anyone know how to install MS Expression Web silently?

It doesn't have an MSI you can use and setup doesn't appear to accept any "normal" switches to run silently.

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RE: Microsoft Expression Web - 5/12/2007 10:23:51 PM

Tone

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Have you tried extracting files and editing config.xml, havent done it myself but should be something like..

WebDesigner.exe /extract:c:\WebDesigner

\\Server\Share\WebDesigner\setup.exe /config \\Server\Share\WebDesigner\WebDesigner.WW\config.xml

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RE: Microsoft Expression Web - 5/13/2007 4:21:22 PM

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Thanks for that - it's perfect!! Even though I now know what to do (and what to search for) I still can't find the info on the MS web site but then I'd guess that's why this site is here :-)

In case anyone else has problems I've put my config.xml below - the thing it took me a while to understand was that you have to specify the full path to msiexec; you can't just rely on it being on the path.

Steve

<Configuration Product="WebDesigner">

<Display Level="None" CompletionNotice="No" SuppressModal="no" AcceptEula="yes" />

<Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Expression Web Designer Setup(*).txt" />

<PIDKEY Value="12345678901234567890" />

<USERNAME Value="College of North West London" />

<COMPANYNAME Value="London NW10 2XD" />

<INSTALLLOCATION Value="%programfiles%\Microsoft Expression" />



<SOURCELIST Value="\\student\cdimages\expressionweb" />

<DistributionPoint Location="\\student\cdimages\expressionweb" />



<Setting Id="Reboot" Value="IfNeeded" />

<Command Path="%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe" Args="/i \\student\cdimages\expressionweb\WebDesigner.WW\WebDesignerWW.msi" QuietArg="/q" ChainPosition="after" Execute="install" />

</Configuration>

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RE: Microsoft Expression Web - 1/15/2008 1:45:00 PM

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Just got Expression and trying to creat 1st site. So yea I have a stupid question. I changed the bacgound on the master.dwt and also the background of the main content box. Published it and the default page comes up with the main background but I can not get the backgound on the other pages. The image I placed as a background of the content box comes up on each page and I did the same thing... I think to get it there. Any help would be great.

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RE: Microsoft Expression Web - 2/26/2008 11:29:35 AM

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Microsoft should have posted silent installation instructions.

But, for someone still kinda new to all of this like myself, Microsoft does have an article on TechNet titled Config.xml in the 2007 Office system which has lots of helpful information.

Thanks to all the members for their helpful posts.

Alan

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RE: Microsoft Expression Web - 2/27/2008 3:36:06 AM

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Microsoft should have posted silent installation instructions.

You can partially alleviate their oversight by posting your findings into AppDeploy's 'Package KB'... ;)

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RE: Microsoft Expression Web - 2/27/2008 2:39:21 PM

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OUTSTANDING!

Following these instructions, I was able to make this work on the first attempt. Thanks everso to all who contributed.

In a nutshell, I modified my config.xml according to srochford's instructions (of course, modifying to include my own parameters) and then ran

\\myservername\software\Microsoft\ExpressionWeb\2007\setup.exe /config webdesigner.ww\config.xml

After a few moments, all was right with the world!

Again, thanks to all for your help.

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RE: Microsoft Expression Web - 2/28/2008 5:58:03 AM

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Since I first posted, I've found out more about how all this works. If you put the config.xml file in the top level folder (ie with setup.exe) then setup just runs silently - no need to add switches to it.

Steve

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