Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Installation and Uninstallation of MSU in silent mode

MSU are the Microsoft Update files.
You can easily install the MSU file silently without reboot with the following command line:


wusa.exe Windows6.1-KB123456-x86.msu /quiet /norestart

To Uninstall it Silently you need to follow this simple procedure:

1) Run this command:
expand c:\temp\Windows6.0-KB123456-x86.msu –F:Windows6.0-KB123456-x86.xml c:\temp

2) This will create an XML file in temp folder as per the name above.
Edit this xml in notepad.

3)Find the assemblyidentity tag. Then, note the values of the following attributes:
  • The name attribute
  • The publickeytoken attribute
  • The processArchitecture attribute
  • The version attribute
4) Use the below command to uninstall the MSU from your machine.
start /w pkgmgr /up:name~publickeytoken~processArchitecture~~version

Note: The variables above need to be replaced by the vaules you have copied in step 3.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

For uninstall:
wusa.exe /uninstall Windows6.1-KB123456-x86.msu /quiet /norestart

Piyush Nasa said...

this does not work for all .msu
If it works for you.. Good.

Anonymous said...

Here's my reply to the first 2 comments.

Instead of using this:

wusa /uninstall Windows6.1-KB123456-x86.msu /quiet /norestart

Try using the /uninstall parameter with /kb -parameter aswell, works like a charm, example below:

wusa /uninstall /kb:123456/quiet /norestart

Absolute filename could have -x86 or -x64 at the end, leave all those away. (aswell as .msu ofcourse)

Lately had a couple situations where uninstallation of .msu -files was necessary and unintallation has worked great so far.

Ville

Kiquenet said...


Can be install/uninstall Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8.1 silent using powershell ?

Ideal world.
Programmatically save the download package to a local computer or share
Detect appropriate for your computer's architecture: Windows8.1-KB2693643-x64.msu or Windows8.1-KB2693643-x86.msu
Install programmatically silent Windows8.1-KB2693643-x64.msu or Windows8.1-KB2693643-x86.msu
Activate feature programmatically using Powershell Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell

Kiquenet said...

Can be install/uninstall Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8.1 silent using powershell ?

Ideal world.

Programmatically save the download package to a local computer or share

Detect appropriate for your computer's architecture: Windows8.1-KB2693643-x64.msu or Windows8.1-KB2693643-x86.msu

Install programmatically silent Windows8.1-KB2693643-x64.msu or Windows8.1-KB2693643-x86.msu

Activate feature programmatically using Powershell Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell

Anonymous said...

/restart restarted for me. so be warned.

Anonymous said...

Yeah using /restart has a habit of restarting (ie doing that that means). If you want to avoid restarting you would want to use /norestart as shown above.