Silent installation on Windows

Silent installation on using the command line

Notes

Lumerical silent installation is using Windows "MsiExec.exe" in the command prompt.  This process will not install the MPI components that is installed with the default Windows installation process. 

Install using MsiExec.exe 

1. Download the Ansys Optics (Lumerical) installer from the Ansys Customer Portal - Downloads or Ansys Optics Downloads page.
2. Extract or unZip the installation files.
3. Open a Windows command prompt "as Administrator".
4. Change directory to the extracted "Lumerical Suite" installation folder.
5. Run "msiexec.exe" and install the "lumerical_data.msi" file. 
    Example: Lumerical [[ver]], downloaded and extracted in the "Users" Downloads folder.

   cd %USERPROFILE%\Downloads\Lumerical_Suite\
   msiexec.exe /i "lumerical_data.msi" /q /norestart

Using MsiExec.exe

"MsiExec.exe" is the executable program of the Windows Installer used to interpret MSI and MSP installation packages and install products on target systems.

To see more msiexec options:

msiexec.exe /h
msiexec.exe /?

See also

msiexec command line options  

msiexec standard installer options