A silent installation enables you to deploy Toad and other Edition products to multiple machines. To install silently, you obtain the individual product installers (.msi) for your Edition file and then execute command-line parameters to install one product at a time. You can change the parameters to fit your environment or standards, such as installing to a different directory.

These instructions are for performing a silent installation of Toad and, optionally, installing licenses on the target computers.

Note: Toad is installed per machine and will be available to all users on that machine.

Obtain product installers

• Toad for Oracle with subscription licensing

• Toad for Oracle with offline licensing

Toad for Oracle with subscription licensing

Toad for Oracle Subscription installer is distributed as an EXE installation application. To perform silent installation, remote deployment, or distribution through SCCM requiring MSI files follow the steps below to extract them from the Toad for Oracle subscription installer executable file. The MSI extraction uses dark.exe, an executable, provided as a part of the freely available and open source WiX toolset.

1. Download WiX toolset

   1. The WiX installer can be found at https://wixtoolset.org/releases/

   2. The latest version available at the time of download can be used

2. Install WiX toolset

   1. Install using the downloaded WiX executable

   2. Follow the toolset installation instructions

3. Locate WiX dark.exe utility

   1. Dark.exe utility can be found in default (i.e., C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.11\bin\) or custom installation folder path

   2. Open Windows command prompt and set current directory to the 'bin\' folder under the toolset installation folder found above (i.e., '<WiX installation folder>\bin')

   3. Call dark.exe with following arguments: -x <destination_folder> <path_to_bootstraper.exe>

      dark.exe -x <destination_folder> <absolute_filename_to_toad_for_oracle_installer>.exe

      Example: dark.exe -x C:\temp\ C:\Downloads\ToadforOracle_Subscription_16.1.113.1379_x64_En.exe

   4. Extracted MSI files will be located in the <destination_folder> (i.e., "C:\temp\AttachedContainer") folder

Toad for Oracle with offline licensing

1. Go to https://support.quest.com/download-product-select.

2. Search for Toad for Oracle.

3. Under MSI Installers (Special Installations Only), download the Toad Editions zip file.

4. Unzip the download file.

Run the silent installation

From the Windows command prompt, run the Toad for Oracle MSI file. The basic command to run a silent installation is the following:

msiexec /i "full path to MSI file"

Example

msiexec /i " C:\Users\jdoe\Downloads\ToadForOracle_12.10.0.111_x86_En.msi"

See Command-line options for additional options.

To perform a silent installation of other products that are provided with your Toad Edition, see the installation guide for that product on https://support.quest.com/technical-documentation.

Note: Toad is installed per machine and will be available to all users on that machine.

Install licenses

Applies to legacy Toad for Oracle with offline license keys.

To install licenses on the target computers, you do the following:

• Create a Questkey.reg text file to specify each license key.
• Send the file to the target PC and import it to the Registry there.

To create the Questkey.reg file

Create the Questkey.reg file in a text editor. The following is a template:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\{08439167-4CA5-48E9-A810-A3A7C0B80B06}]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\{08439167-4CA5-48E9-A810-A3A7C0B80B06}\Local]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\{08439167-4CA5-48E9-A810-A3A7C0B80B06}\Local\REPLACE_WITH_KEY]
"SiteMessage"="REPLACE_WITH_SITEMESSAGE"
"ProductName"="REPLACE_WITH_PRODUCTNAME"
"ProductVersion"="REPLACE_WITH_PRODUCTVERSION"

Follow these steps to configure the file:

1. Do not change the first two HKEY_CURRENT_USER lines. They are the key entries.

2. Replace the "REPLACE_WITH_(KEY | SITEMESSAGE | PRODUCTNAME | PRODUCTVERSION)" text with the relevant information supplied with your license.

3. Add any additional licenses as required in the same file by replicating the last four lines and then applying the correct information.

4. Save the file.

To apply the file on the target computer

1. Transfer the Questkey.reg file to the target PC.

2. Import the file to the Registry on the target PC with the following command in the Windows command prompt:

   C:\> reg import Questkey.reg

When the user runs Toad and any product installed with Toad, the software validates the license and removes the entries from the Registry.

Toad (and any other product) is ready for use when the license is validated.

Command-line options

You can use the following command-line parameters when you silently install Toad:

Option	Parameter	Description
/l	Package|ProductCode	Installs or configures the product.
/f	[p|o|e|d|c|a|u|m|s|v] Package|ProductCode	Repairs the product. This option ignores any property values entered in the command-line. The default argument list for this option is 'omus.' The following options are available: p—Reinstalls only if a file is missing. o—Reinstalls if a file is missing or an older version is installed. e—Reinstalls if a file is missing or an equal or older version is installed. d—Reinstalls if a file is missing or a different version is installed. c—Reinstalls if a file is missing or the stored checksum does not match the calculated value. This option only repairs files that have msidbFileAttributesChecksum in the Attributes column of the File table. a—Forces all files to be reinstalled. u—Rewrites all required, user-specific registry entries. m—Rewrites all required, computer-specific registry entries. s—Overwrites all existing shortcuts. v—Runs from source and re-caches the local package. Do not use this option for the initial installation of the product or feature.
/a	Package	Installs the product on the network.
/x	Package/ProductCode	Uninstalls the product.
/l	[i|w|e|a|r|u|c|m|o|p|v|x|+|!|*] Logfile	Writes logging information to a logfile in the specified path. The path to the logfile location must already exist. The installer does not create the directory structure for the logfile. Flags indicate which information to log. If no flags are set, the default is 'iwearmo.' The following options are available: i—Status messages. w—Nonfatal warnings. e—All error messages. a—Start up of actions. r—Action-specific records. u—User requests. c—Initial UI parameters. m—Out-of-memory or fatal exit information. o—Out-of-disk-space messages. p—Terminal properties. v—Verbose output. x—Extra debugging information. Only available on Windows Server 2003. +—Append to existing file. !—Flush each line to the log. "*"—Log all information except for the v and x options. To include the v and x options, enter "/l*vx".
/q	n|b|r|f	Sets the user interface level. Review the following options: q, qn—No UI qb—Basic UI. Use qb! to hide the Cancel button. qr—Reduced UI with no modal dialog box displayed at the end of the installation. qf—Full UI and any authored FatalError, UserExit, or Exit modal dialog boxes at the end. qn+—No UI except for a modal dialog box displayed at the end. qb+—Basic UI with a modal dialog box displayed at the end. The modal box does not display if you cancel the installation. Use qb+! or qb!+ to hide the Cancel button. qb- —Basic UI with no modal dialog boxes. Note that /qb+- is not a supported UI level. Use qb-! or qb!- to hide the Cancel button. Note: The ! option is available with Windows Installer 2.0 and works only with basic UI. It is not valid with the full UI.
RESTRICTIONS	p	Prevents users from saving their connection password by disabling the Save password field in the Database Login window. For example: RESTRICTIONS=p
	i	Prevents users from accessing the Internet via Toad by disabling all Internet access in Toad. This can be combined with the 'p' parameter; for example: RESTRICTIONS=p,i