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title: "Silent Installations"
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# Silent Installations

The 12d Solutions Installer is capable of performing silent installations, which may assist in automatic rollouts of upgrades.

## 1.1 Generating an Answers File

To perform a silent installation, you will need to generate an answers file. To do so, provide the following argument:

-o PathToAnswersFile

For example: 12dSynergy_Server_Upgrade_x86.exe –o c:\temp\answers.txt When the installation is completed, an answers file will be generated for use time.

## 1.2 Performing a Silent Installation

To perform a silent installation, specify the following arguments on the command line: -gm2 –m silent –a PathToAnswersFile If you would like to also automatically uninstall the product first, use these arguments -gm2 –m silent –u –a PathToAnswersFile For example: 12dSynergy_Server_Upgrade_x86.exe –gm2 –m silent –u –a c:\temp\answers.txt