Unattended installation is a method that enables people to install or uninstall one or more programs with minimal user intervention. When we install programs, we have to follow step by step installation procedure requirements such as agreeing to terms of use, clicking next again and again and lastly clicking finish. In unattended installations this is not the case. With the help of what are known as silent switches, programs are installed almost without any intervention at all. These silent switches are command line parameters we supply to the setup file before installation begins.
Benefits
As you see, unattended installations are a useful way to install many programs all at once without spending time at all. We can spend that time doing other things. You just have to double click the installer icon and that is it. The process goes behind the scenes. Now let's imagine we have 100 computers and 20 programs we want to install on each of them. This can be a very time consuming task. But we can leverage from unattended installation method. If we had these 100 computers connected in a network the solution can be ever more simple. The folder that contains the programs could be shared on the network and all the computers in that network can get the programs from there. You can start the installation at the same time for all computers and it could finish at the same time. This way we can shorten the installation time 10 times. If we did that manually it would have taken ten or even more times longer.
Implementation
One way to implement unattended installations is to buy a software that provides that functionality. One such software is "Almeza". You can search on the internet and download it to give a try. But software like this do cost a lot of money. Good news is that there are other methods that are almost as efficient as that and are FREE. You just need to learn to write some simple lines of code in Batch. Batch is scripting language in Windows environment which allows someone to command the computer with commands and to automate computer tasks. This is very easy and you can find a lot of tutorials on the Internet that show you exactly how to do that.
Examples
Companies or businesses that have hundreds or even thousands of computers in their buildings face big problems when they have to install a number of applications. In this case it would be impossible to install them manually. Unattended installation is the real solution. Internet cafes can also benefit from this solution. Some internet cafes have a lot of computers and unattended installation is the way to go.
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