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If you are a system administrator and want to install WoodWorks on multiple computers at once, you will ordinarily need only the second stage of the installation, a file with the extension .msi. You can run only this file by running the installation as follows:
WoodWorksUSA2019.exe /c:"cmd.exe /c WoodWorksUSA2019.msi"
The command line options for running .msi files with the "msiexec" command, such as the Quiet or Silent options, can be placed after the call to WoodWorksUSA2019.msi. Alternatively, you can contact for the .msi file and invoke it from the command line using msiexec.
The dialog box that appears asking you whether you want to retain your settings and database files to is not suppressed by the Silent option in the msiexec command. To ensure that this doesn’t appear, on each computer you must copy a file called WoodWorksInstallationConfiguration.txt to the WoodWorks ProgramData folder, or
C:\ProgramData\WoodWorks\CWC\USA\12\
Note that if no WoodWorks® program has ever been installed on the computer, this folder must first be created.
To create the WoodWorksInstallationConfiguration.txt file in the first place, install the program on one computer, and when the Installation Options dialog comes up, set the options you want on all the computers and check Save selection for future installations. The installation will create the WoodWorksInstallationConfiguration.txt file in the ProgramData folder of that computer, which you can then copy to the others. The installation will find that file and apply the options without displaying the dialog box.
In the future, when upgrading to version 13 or later, it will not be necessary to recreate this file unless you want to change the options. The program will look in the version 12 folder if it doesn’t find it in the version 13 folder.
If you wish to distribute License Server IDs and/or set the License Management settings for each computer automatically, refer to License Deployment below.