Installing Esri Business Analyst Desktop silently

Esri Business Analyst Desktop 10.3 can be installed without a user interface (UI) by running the setup using Windows Installer command line parameters. To run the Windows Installer with command line parameters, you execute setup.exe from the command line.

Note:

Upgrading to 10.3? For more information, see Existing Esri Business Analyst users.

Requirements

• Windows Installer version 3.1 must be installed and running on your machine prior to running the setup silently.
• All previous versions must be uninstalled before you proceed with the silent installation.

Esri Business Analyst Desktop installation command line parameters

The following are explanations of the parameters:

Parameter	Description
Path to installer	The path to the setup.msi file.
Method	/q, will suppress all UI while performing the install.

How to perform a silent installation of Esri Business Analyst Desktop

Command

<full path> /q

The following is an example that uses the setup command to perform a silent installation:

\\<server name>\Esri_Business_Analyst\setup.msi /q

How to perform a silent installation of Esri Business Analyst Desktop 64-bit Background GP

Command

<full path> /q

An example that uses the setup command to perform a silent installation:

\\<server name>\10.3\BA_Desktop_BackgroundGP_64\BADesktopBackgroundGPx64\setup.msi /q

Note:

The following are required and need to be installed prior to the BA Desktop Geoprocessing tools installation.

• ArcGIS Desktop 64-bit Geoprocessing (DesktopBackgroundGPx64)
• Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64)

  Command

  <full path> /q /norestart
  

  Example

  \\<server name>\vcredist_x64.exe /q /norestart
  

How to perform a silent installation of Esri Business Analyst 2015 data

Command

msiexec /i <full path> /q

For installing Esri Business Analyst data in the default configuration.

Example

msiexec /i \\<server name>\BA\Data\2015_Data_USA\setup.msi /q

You can also select which data features will be installed using ADDLOCAL parameter, e.g.:

Example

msiexec /i \\<server name>\BA\Data\2015_Data_USA\setup.msi /q ADDLOCAL=Business_Data

Note:

In this case only business data will be installed locally. For the 2015 Data Setup, the list of features names are:

• Demographic_Data
• Business_Data
• Shopping_Centers_Data
• Geocoding_Data
• ZIP4_Geocoding_Data

If you want to change the data install location (default is C:\ArcGIS\Business Analyst\US_2015), use INSTALLDIR property:

Example

msiexec /i \\<server name>\BA\Data\2015_Data_USA\setup.msi /q INSTALLDIR=E:\US2015

For setting the custom install folders into separate components, use the following properties:

• BUSINESS_DATA
• DEMOGRAPHIC_DATA
• GEOCODING_DATA
• STREETS_DATA

Example

msiexec /i \\<server name>\BA\Data\2015_Data_USA\setup.msi /q BUSINESS_DATA=E:\US2015Businesses