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Most Common Setup Type
Not Determined
Average Package Difficulty Rating
Rated 3 / 5 (Average) based on 4 ratings
Most Commonly Reported Deployment Method
Windows Installer Command Line (No MST)
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Command Line
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Install Windows Internet Explorer 8
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Available switches:

[/help] [/passive] [/quiet] [/update-no] [/no-default] [/sqm] [/ieak-full:<path>|/ieak-branding:<path>] [/norestart|/forcerestart] [/log:<path>]

/help Display this message.

Setup Modes:
/passive Run the installation without any input from the user.
/quiet Identical to /passive, but do not show any user interface.

Setup Options:
/update-no Do not check look for Internet Explorer updates.
/no-default Do not make Internet Explorer the default browser.
/ieak-full:<path> Reserved for Internet Explorer Administration Kit use.
/ieak-branding:<path> Reserved for Internet Explorer Administration Kit use.
/sqm Join CEIP to help Microsoft improve Internet Explorer.

Restart Options:
/norestart Do not restart when installation is complete.
/forcerestart Restart after installation.

Miscellaneous Options:
/log:<path> Create log file at <path>.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
16
Command Line
Uninstallation of Internet Explorer 8

run C:\WINDOWS\ie8\spunint\spuninst.exe

avaiable parameters

[/help] [/passive] [/quiet] [/norestart] [/forcerestart][/warnrestart][/promtrestart][/forceappsclose] [/log: <fullpath>]

/help Display this message

/quiet quiet mode (no user interaction or display)
/passive unattended mode (progress bar only)

/norestart do not restart
/forcerestart restart after uninstallation
/warnrestart[:<seconds>] warn and restart automatically (default timeout 30 seconds)
/promtrestart promt if restart is required

/forceapsclose force other program to close when computer shuts down
/log:<fullpath> create log file at <fullpath>
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
15
Note
IEAK 8 is the standard tool provide by the Microsoft for the customization of IE 8. This tool will generate the IE8-Setup-Full.exe and also IE8-Setup-Full.msi.

IE8-Setup-Full.msi. does not contain any feature, component, files or registries.
It is only installing the application by calling IE8-Setup-Full.exe through custom action. IE8-Setup-Full.msi is only serving as a wrapper to IE8-Setup-Full.exe and doesn’t seem to be fully utilizing advantages of MSI such as repair/self-repair or full uninstall of the application.

Also IE8-Setup-Full.msi created by the tool does not contain any supporting action to uninstall the application. Ultimately if we use IE8-Setup-Full.msi to install the application then we have to use silent uninstall command line to uninstall the application via the EXE.

So it is better to use IE8-Setup-Full.exe to install the application. IEAK8 has embedded the silent installation functionality into IE8-Setup-Full.exe.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
15
Command Line
Installation command line:

IE8-Setup-Full.exe

(This exe is generated by IEAK 8.0)

Application will be install silently by launching IE8-Setup-Full.exe or putting this IE8-Setup-Full.exe on command line. It does not require any additional silent parameter as the silent install feature is embedded inside the exe by IEAK 8 tool.

Uninstallation command Line:
%windir%\ie8\spuninst\spuninst.exe /quiet /norestart
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
13
Note
IEAK 8 is the standard tool provide by the Microsoft for the customization of IE 8. This tool will generate the IE8-Setup-Full.exe and also IE8-Setup-Full.msi.

IE8-Setup-Full.msi. does not contain any feature, component, files or registries.
It is only installing the application by calling IE8-Setup-Full.exe through custom action. IE8-Setup-Full.msi is only serving as a wrapper to IE8-Setup-Full.exe and doesn’t seem to be fully utilizing advantages of MSI such as repair/self-repair or full uninstall of the application.

Also IE8-Setup-Full.msi created by the tool does not contain any supporting action to uninstall the application. Ultimately if we use IE8-Setup-Full.msi to install the application then we have to use silent uninstall command line to uninstall the application via the EXE.

So it is better to use IE8-Setup-Full.exe to install the application. IEAK8 has embedded the silent installation functionality into IE8-Setup-Full.exe.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
10
Note
IE8-Setup-Full.exe v/s IE8-Setup-Full.msi
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IEAK 8 is the standard tool provide by the Microsoft for the customization of IE 8 this tool will generate IE8-Setup-Full.exe and IE8-Setup-Full.msi.

IE8-Setup-Full.msi. does not contain any feature, component, files or registries.
It is only installing the application by calling IE8-Setup-Full.exe through custom action. IE8-Setup-Full.msi is only serving as a wrapper to IE8-Setup-Full.exe and doesn’t seem to be fully utilizing advantages of MSI such as repair/self-repair or full uninstall of the application.

Also IE8-Setup-Full.msi created by the tool does not contain any supporting action to uninstall the application. Ultimately if we use IE8-Setup-Full.msi to install the application then we have to use silent uninstall command line to uninstall the application via the EXE.

So it is better to use IE8-Setup-Full.exe to install the application. IEAK8 has embedded the silent installation functionality into IE8-Setup-Full.exe.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
9
Note
IE8-Setup-Full.exe v/s IE8-Setup-Full.msi
___________________________________________

IEAK 8 is the standard tool provide by the Microsoft for the customization of IE 8 this tool will generate IE8-Setup-Full.exe and IE8-Setup-Full.msi.

IE8-Setup-Full.msi. does not contain any feature, component, files or registries.
It is only installing the application by calling IE8-Setup-Full.exe through custom action. IE8-Setup-Full.msi is only serving as a wrapper to IE8-Setup-Full.exe and doesn’t seem to be fully utilizing advantages of MSI such as repair/self-repair or full uninstall of the application.

Also IE8-Setup-Full.msi created by the tool does not contain any supporting action to uninstall the application. Ultimately if we use IE8-Setup-Full.msi to install the application then we have to use silent uninstall command line to uninstall the application via the EXE.

So it is better to use IE8-Setup-Full.exe to install the application. IEAK8 has embedded the silent installation functionality into IE8-Setup-Full.exe.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
9
Note
Auto Updates:

Auto Updates are disabled through "Internet Explorer Administration Kit 8", by checking the check box under "Additional Setting Page" under section "Software Updates"
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
9
Note
MSI created by IAEK 8 does not contain standard Custom Actions as in any other MSI.

Due to which it fails to uninstall embedded setup present in MSI. MSI is installing application by calling setup.exe through custom action. Also adding any files or registries to this msi are not getting installed.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
9
Note

Rebooting of machine is essential after installation and un-installation of the application. It is strictly recommended not to launch application before rebooting of machine after installation or un-installation, It can also hang user machine.

Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
8
Command Line
Vb Script to uninstall IE8 :

Dim oShell,var
Set oShell = CreateObject ("WSCript.shell")
set WshShell = CreateObject ("WSCript.shell")
var = oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%windir%")
WshShell.Run chr(34) & var & "\ie8\spuninst\spuninst.exe" & chr(34) & " /quiet" & " /norestart"
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
6
Note
Smart Screen Filter:

Smart Screen Filter can be enabled by IEAK8 tool under last page Additional setting. under custom settings, option : others.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
5
Note
Accelerators Disabled.

Accelerators can be disabled by using IEAK 8 tool under page "Browsing Option". By checking the check box Accelerators.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
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Note
Upgrading from IE7 to IE8 - if you have google as your default search provider and using IEAK, you need to delete the (HKLM)Searchscopes for IE

With a standard IE install, two live search providers and google are installed, with live search being the default provider. This can be manually changed by the user, by deleting on live search provider and making google the default search provider.

But of course this is user profile based and will be required to be done for every profile on every PC.

To solve this issue the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes must be deleted , prior to the IE8 install on the Target PC.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
1
Note
The IE 8 customization installation tool works great.
After running the wizard you can create the package to run with the Quiet switch or just run the package with the built in selections that you created the package with.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
0
Command Line
About "/log" causing failure: yes and no.
In testing the following was successful:
/log:c:\temp
whereas this failed:
/log:"c:\temp\IE8 setup"

I haven't had time to research whether the failure was due to the quotes or the space in the path.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
0
Note
To disable first run:

reg add "hkcu\software\microsoft\internet explorer\main" /f /v DisableFirstRunCustomize /d 1 /t reg_dword
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
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Command Line
Note: the /log:<path>

option not only doesn't work; it actually prevents the install.
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
-1
Note
Enable the anti-phishing (smartscreen):

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter]
"EnabledV8"=dword:00000001
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
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Note
Maybe consider turning off RSS feeds, have since discovered a lovely little feature that prompts a user to synch MS at Home & MS at work feeds (which of course they go yes to), which start filling up Outlook inboxes (we are trying to reign in the size of).

However it is probably better to control the feeds via a policy
Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows
-5
Note

Another option (if you're using MDT) is to extract the files from the IE8-WindowsVista-x86-ENU.exe file. This gives you four new files: eula, ie8, iesetup, sqmapi.dll. The extracted IE8.msu can then be imported as an OS package in the deployment share.

Setup Information:
Setup Type: unspecified
Deployment Method Used: unspecified
Deployment Difficulty: unspecified
Platform(s): Windows

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Uninstall String

MsiExec.exe /I{66551143-D65F-4BBB-89A7-D8065FB47E55} MsiExec.exe /I{CACFB458-2C8B-4617-8BC5-F71CCD6FFBC8} MsiExec.exe /I{FE7C03AB-2F9B-47D4-826E-B96077269CEA} MsiExec.exe /I{0008EB57-F094-45B1-98AF-92CB5DC5F380} MsiExec.exe /I{3DB82283-8DD7-4C9F-AA4E-11A0

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