Install windows bes client with logging

Is there a way to install the bes client from the command line with logging enabled? i see that you can use /v to get msiexec.exe flags, but when i turn on /V/L it wont work. When i use the /s /v/qn it will work but it doesn’t appear to allow the logging flag.

The core of this issue is im trying to install bigfix through Intune, but it is erring out and i want to turn on logging so i can track down the issue.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

This is common to InstallShield packages, I believe. You only pass one ‘/v’ parameter but it can be quoted. I don’t have a machine on which to test at the moment but I think the syntax would be

Setup.exe /v"/qn /L* c:\temp\bigfix.log"

Note that you probably need to copy the masthead.afxm to the client in the same directory as the setup.exe as part of the package, or you may find it easier to use the MSI package that bundles the masthead that’s created by the BigFix Installation Generator utility.

That was it. Thanks for the help.

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