Silent Install

Depending on how you plan to install your customized packages, you may want to provide your users with an interactive installation, a hands-free installation with prompts if errors occur, or an installation with no prompts.

If you want to provide an interactive installation for your users, in which they make installation decisions, click Interactive install.

If you want to provide a "hands-free" installation, in which users aren't prompted to make decisions but are informed of the installation progress and errors, click Hands-free install.

If you want your users to install the customized browser without receiving prompts, click Completely silent install. You should select this option when you want to control all setup options and suppress feedback to the user.

Selecting this check box is the same as installing Internet Explorer with the /Q:A switch. This mode is not interactive, and users will not have control over its progress. If installation does not finish successfully, users will not see an error message. You might consider using this feature for installations deployed when the user is not present. To fine-tune the installation, you can use additional Internet Explorer batch setup switches.

A silent installation (Hands-free or Completely silent) does the following:

• Answers prompts that enable Setup to continue.
• Accepts the license agreement.
• Specifies that Internet Explorer will be installed and not just downloaded.
• Carries out the type of installation that you specify (such as Standard or Custom). You will set this option later in the Internet Explorer Customization wizard.
• Installs Internet Explorer in the location you specify, unless Internet Explorer is already installed. In that case, the new version of the browser is installed in the same location as the previous version.
• Connects to the first download site specified in the IEAK. You will provide a list of download sites later in the Customization wizard.

Note

• In a silent install, you can specify only one installation option and one download site for your users.