Installing Business Analyst silently

Available with Business Analyst license.

Note:

ArcGIS Business Analyst Desktop is in mature support and follows the ArcGIS Desktop life cycle. There are no plans for future releases of ArcGIS Business Analyst Desktop, and it is recommended that you migrate to ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro. See Migrate to ArcGIS Business Analyst Pro for more information.

Business Analyst 10.8.2 can be installed without a user interface (UI) by running the setup using Windows Installer command line parameters. To run the Windows Installer with command line parameters, you execute setup.exe from the command line.

Requirements

• Run Command Prompt as administrator.
• Windows Installer version 3.1 must be installed and running on your machine prior to running the setup silently.
• All previous versions must be uninstalled before you proceed with the silent installation.

Business Analyst installation command line parameters

The following are explanations of the parameters:

Parameter	Description
Path to installer	The path to the setup.msi file.
Method	/q, will suppress all UI while performing the install.

How to perform a silent installation of Business Analyst

Command

<full path> /q

The following is an example that uses the setup command to perform a silent installation:

\\<server name>\Esri_Business_Analyst\setup.msi /q

How to perform a silent installation of Business Analyst 64-bit Background GP

Command

<full path> /q

An example that uses the setup command to perform a silent installation:

\\<server name>\10.8.2\BA_Desktop_BackgroundGP_64\BADesktopBackgroundGPx64\setup.msi /q

Note:

The following are required and need to be installed prior to the Business Analyst Geoprocessing tools installation.

• ArcGIS Desktop 64-bit Geoprocessing (DesktopBackgroundGPx64)
• Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013

  Command

  <full path> /q /norestart

  Example

  \\<server name>\vcredist_x64.exe /q /norestart

How to perform a silent installation of Business Analyst 2023 U.S. Data

Command

msiexec /i <full path> /q

For installing Business Analyst data in the default configuration.

Example

msiexec /i \\<server name>\BA\Data\2023_Data_USA\setup.msi /q

You can also select which data features will be installed using ADDLOCAL parameter.

Example

msiexec /i \\<server name>\BA\Data\2023_Data_USA\setup.msi /q ADDLOCAL=Demographic_Data

Note:

In this case only demographic data will be installed locally. For the 2023 U.S. Data Setup, the list of the feature names are:

• Demographic_Data
• Businesses_Data
• Streets_Data
• Streets_Data_Fast_Map
• Geocoding_Data_Pro
• Geocoding_Data
• ZIP4_Geocoding_Data

If you want to change the data install location (default is C:\ArcGIS\Business Analyst\US_2023), use INSTALLDIR property:

Example

msiexec /i \\<server name>\BA\Data\2023_Data_USA\setup.msi /q INSTALLDIR=E:\US2023

For setting the custom install folders into separate components, use the following properties:

• DEMOGRAPHIC_DATA
• BUSINESSES_DATA
• STREETS_DATA
• STREETS_DATA_FAST_MAP
• GEOCODING_DATA_PRO
• GEOCODING_DATA
• ZIP4_GEOCODING_DATA

Example

msiexec /i \\<server name>\BA\Data\2023_Data_USA\setup.msi /q BUSINESSES_DATA=E:\US2023Businesses