MSIExec via Powershell Install

Question

Find the list of MSI Files from a directory and install on given PC remotely or locally . I want to be able to to run a script that will install 8 separate MSI files in a given directory 1 by 1. I found this script and think it work but i feel as if it is missing something right?

foreach($_msiFiles in 
($_msiFiles = Get-ChildItem $_Source -Recurse | Where{$_.Extension -eq ".msi"} |
 Where-Object {!($_.psiscontainter)} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty FullName)) 
{
    msiexec /i $_msiFiles /passive
}

Are you familiar with the [**Windows Installer PowerShell Module**](https://github.com/heaths/psmsi) by [Heath Stewart](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/) - Microsoft Senior Software Engineer ([github](https://github.com/heaths))? And [for the record](https://stackoverflow.com/q/46221983/129130). — Stein Åsmul, Mar 07 '19 at 12:17

m0lochwalker · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-07T04:54:33.773

It would help you to understand what is going on here. I would write it something like this:

Declare source Directory:

$source = “\\path\to\source\folder”

Put each child .msi object into an array:

$msiFiles = Get-Childitem $source -File -recurse | Where-Object {$_.Extension -eq “.msi”}

Iterate the array to run each .msi:

Foreach ($msi in $msiFiles) {

Msiexec /I “$($msi.FullName)” /passive

}

This is of course just an explanation of what you are doing. It does not include any error handling, checking for return codes, or remote command syntax, etc. etc.

MSIExec via Powershell Install

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