SAP B1 Client Silent Install

[former_member349215]

Dear Experts,

One of our clients wants to perform a silent install for SAP Business One 9.1 PL 09 client. I have done sone research and found that this can be done via command prompt.

I have found this command line code: setup.exe /S /z"c:\Program Files (x86)\SAP\SAP Business One Client\*127.0.0.1:30000" from https://scn.sap.com/thread/3197494

I am not able to understand the command line code above because how will the system know where the setup.exe is stored?

Does the silent install require any user input like license server information? Is there a guide I can be referred to to know exactly how this process works?

If the command line code can be improved kind;y let me know. Your reply will be highly appreciated. Thanks

Kind Regards,

Pascale.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Pascale,

For more information, you can refer to the AdministratorGuide_SQL document that comes in the download package.

What you have found is basically what it says in that.

Kind Regards,

Nick Lakasas

[former_member349215 · Accepted solution]

Hi Nick,

Thank you for your reply. You're right the AdministratorGuide_SQL says that.

I understand that:

1. The client will be installed in the SAP Business One Client folder

2. The license server and port are represented by *127.0.0.1:30000

Kindly tell me, how will the command prompt know which setup.exe to call? It is not pointed to ant path. I know the setup.exe is normally in the B1SHR folder. How will the command line argument call it from that folder? Thanks

Kind Regards,

Pascale.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I am not sure sorry Pascale.
I don't have a system to try it out on and understand in more detail how it works.

A guess would be, because SAP Business One is unable to run multiple types of versions/patches under the same landscape, it calls on a 'default' setup file.
Like when you install from the shared folder.

Kind Regards,

Nick Lakasas

[former_member349215 · Accepted solution]

Hi Nick,

Thank you. I will continue to lookinto it and when I find a solution, I'll post it here.

Kind Regards,

Pascale.

[former_member349215 · Accepted solution]

Hi Nick,

I found the solution for this. The command line arguments are okay but addition stuff must be added. In the end, the command line arguments should look like this:

\\Server IP Address\b1_shr\Client\setup.exe /S /z"C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP\SAP Business One Client\*Server IP Address:30000"

The path where setup.exe is saved (Shared Folder) must be included so that the command knows where to fetch it from.

Regards,

Pascale

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Well done Pascale

Kind Regards,

Nick Lakasas

[former_member349215]

Hi there,

The following command-line argument worked for the client.

\\Server IP\b1_shr\Client\setup.exe /S /z"C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP\SAP Business One Client\*Server IP:30000"

Kind Regards,

Pascale

[patil_girish1603]

Hi Pascale,

1. From B1 installation kit, run Autorun.exe file. If you are using Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, right click the Autorun.exe file and choose Run as Administrator.

2. First it checks whether SQL SERVER is installed or not. If installed, it will show you the list to install Server, Client & Integration component.

3. If SQL SERVER is not installed then before installing B1 Server Components, it will show you the SQL SERVER installation window which is a silent process which installs the SQL SERVER components and applies the default values.

4. If Microsoft .NET framework is not installed, then it will also be installed during the silent installation of SQL SERVER.

5. If you used the B1 Silent installation for SQL SERVER, then the default User Id and Password are 'sa' and 'SAPB1Admin'

6. B1 client application should be installed on every workstation manually.

7. As part of client installation, B1 client agent is installed by default which saves the configuration parameters provided by the user during client installation for the silent update of B1 client in future.

8. If you want to install or upgrade B1 Client in silent mode, use the following command line parameters:

setup.exe /S /z"c:\Program Files (x86)\SAP\SAP Business One Client\*127.0.0.1:30000"

where /S = silent mode

I hope this is also helpful.

Regards,

Girish

[former_member349215]

Hi Girish,

Thank you for your feedback.

Kind Regards,

Pascale