Another application that is common in almost all environments is Silverlight, so in this post I will show you how to install Silverlight silently in three ways.
Silverlight is the Microsoft equivalent of Adobe Flash player. Silverlight is an internet application. It can be installed in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome. Nowadays Microsoft is designing their software to suit Macintosh too. Silverlight can be installed on newer versions of Intel-based Mac OSX. If you are opening some Silverlight application with Edge or Chrome, it may be ask you to install Silverlight even you have installed. Because Edge and Chrome is not support Silverlight. Please using IE to run some Silverlight application. If you are using IE, please check the settings in IE with following steps.
Microsoft Silverlight Install Location
The first thing we need is the exe for Silverlight that can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx
Note: If you are running a 64-bit OS, the file will be the one for 64-bit. If you need the 32-bit exe, you need to download it from a computer running a 32-bit OS.
The first way
The most common way, and the easiest way is to use the *.exe file directly. I would recommend using this method when the application is installed with a TS through SCCM since applications has a tendency to fail for no apparent reason.
In this case the complete install string would be:
silverlight_x64.exe /q
The second way
The second way is to use the *.msi file and the *.msp file that is included in the downloaded *.exe file.
The first thing is to extract the content of the *.exe file. To do this, run the following command in a elevated command prompt:
silverlight_x64.exe /extract
The following files will be extracted:
The *.msp file is located in the “silverlight.7z” file, so go ahead and extract the file to same folder as the other files. When done, you can delete all files except the *.msi and *.msp file.
Microsoft Silverlight Install For Netflix
Before we can do a silent installation of Silverlight, we need to uninstall the old version that is installed on the client. The command that should be used is the following:
msiexec.exe /X{89F4137D-6C26-4A84-BDB8-2E5A4BB71E00} /qn
Then we can install the new version by running the following command:
msiexec /i silverlight.msi /update Silverlight.msp ALLUSERS=2 /qn /LiV %temp%Silverlight5.log
The third way
Well, to be honest, this isn’t really a third way to install. But this paragraph will tell you something that you need to know if you don’t want your users to manually update Silverlight. We need to add/update two registry values to disable this feature.
The two items are located in the following key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftSilverlight]
And are named:
- UpdateConsentMode
- UpdateMode
Give these a value of “0” to completely disable the automatic update of Silverlight.
If they are not present, you can just create them as a new “DWORD”.
Happy deployment!
There are couple of ways to check if Microsoft Silverlight is installed on your Windows computer. This post explains both the methods with examples.
Programs and Features console
This console shows all installed software on your system and also features available on your Windows installation that you can enable as add-on. You can look for Microsoft Silverlight among the listed items, sort the list by name column so that you can quickly look it up. On my windows box, it shows up as below.
WMIC command
If you want to check the installation from CMD, the below command can be used.
What this command does is, it gets the list of software installed on the system and then searches for silverlight among the list.
Example when Silverlight was installed on the computer
Example when Silverlight was not installed
It prints blank line when it does not find the specified software in the list.
Get Silverlight version
We can use ‘get version’ with WMIC command to find the version of silverlight installed on the computer.
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