Activinspire Silent Install Exclusive ✰

For large-scale deployments, extract the MSI from the EXE:

ActivInspire-2.18.21.exe /a /quiet

This creates an administrative installation point containing the MSI and all CAB files. activinspire silent install exclusive

Then, deploy via Group Policy:

For SCCM:

Download the ActivInspire Corporate MSI bundle from Promethean Support (requires a free account). Do not use the consumer .exe from the public download page.
Filename expected: ActivInspire-x.x.x-Corporate.msi For large-scale deployments, extract the MSI from the

Why isn't this documentation on the front page of Promethean's support site? Because it is brittle. For SCCM :

Test deployment on one machine before mass rollout.

The difficulty with ActivInspire silent installs is version fragmentation. Promethean often releases the software as a self-extracting executable. To do a proper silent install, admins often have to use a tool like 7-Zip to extract the contents to find the .msi file inside. This "hack" is rarely officially supported by the vendor, making the knowledge on how to do it correctly feel like an "exclusive" trade secret.