running setup.exe from network share/locally

[Manu21]

Hello All,

I am new to the scripting and programming but my management has asked to perform a deployment using scripts.

I have to deploy Office 2013 on to the systems but before I need to uninstall Office 2010.

Now the Office 2010 uninstall is being done through setup.exe which is further using uninstall.xml file.

Both the files are on a network share and I wish to call both of them from the network share using the AutoIT script. 

I am not sure how to achieve this.

I am using the following for the same :

RunWait(@WorkingDir & '\\ggnapps1\softwarecentre$\Whitelist Software\Microsoft\Office\MS Office 2010 SP1\setup.exe /uninstall Proplus /config' &@WorkingDir& '\\ggnapps1\softwarecentre$\Whitelist Software\Microsoft\Office\MS Office 2010 SP1\ProPlus.WW\uninstallconfig.xml', @WorkingDir, @SW_HIDE)

Please help me with the correct syntax/command/functions to achieve the target.

An urgent help will be much appreciated.

Thanks 

Manu

 

 

Edited June 11, 2015 by Manu21
missed the command line

[SadBunny]

The command is incorrect. Thy this to troubleshoot your command:

$command = @WorkingDir & '\\ggnapps1\softwarecentre$\Whitelist Software\Microsoft\Office\MS Office 2010 SP1\setup.exe /uninstall Proplus /config' & @WorkingDir & '\\ggnapps1\softwarecentre$\Whitelist Software\Microsoft\Office\MS Office 2010 SP1\ProPlus.WW\uninstallconfig.xml'

MsgBox(0, 0, "Command is: " & $command) ; <-- will show a popup with the constructed command

; RunWait($command, @WorkingDir, @SW_HIDE) <-- commented out so you don't run anything until you are sure the command is correct

You will notice a few things:

• Your path to the executable is not going to be a network path, because it is prefixed with your working dir. Remove that prefix.
• Your path to the config file has the same issue.
• You forgot to add a space between /config and the path to the config file you put behind it
• /edit: Maybe you also need to quote paths that contain spaces.

Also, since it's such a long string, it's easier to program, change and troubleshoot if you break it up into a few parts. Something like this:

$pathToExe = '\\ggnapps1\softwarecentre$\Whitelist Software\Microsoft\Office\MS Office 2010 SP1\setup.exe'
$pathToConfigFile = '\\ggnapps1\softwarecentre$\Whitelist Software\Microsoft\Office\MS Office 2010 SP1\ProPlus.WW\uninstallconfig.xml'
$uninstallParam = '/uninstall Proplus'
$configParam = '/config ' & $pathToConfigFile ; <-- note the space after config!

$command = $pathToExe & ' ' & $uninstallParam & ' ' & $configParam & ' ' & $pathToConfigFile

MsgBox(0, 0, "Command is: " & $command)

Good luck! (And welcome to the forum )

Edited June 11, 2015 by SadBunny