ProjectWise InterPlot Organiser Install - error -105

This may help someone.

I prepared the installation of InterPlot Organizer 10.00.02.029.

Noticing that it was an InstallShield setup, this is what I did:

I first extracted the files from the downloaded pwpor10000229en.exe (found with help:  /? )

pwpor10000229en.exe /C /T:"<where you want the extracted files>"

The extracted files include a "setup.exe" that you use for the next step.

setup.exe -r -f1"<where you want to create the file.ISS>"

Run through the interactive installation and select your options.

Trick 1:  Prepare the response ISS on a machine where you don't mind the full application installing, because although -r does create an ISS, it also installs the product.

Now you have your ISS.  Normally to use it, now you'd put:

setup.exe -s -f1"<your file.ISS>" -f2"<log file name>" -w -SMS

BUT that fails with error -105 (return code in the output log file) - but the process still returns 0 to the caller, such as SCCM.  SCCM simply fails because the post-install detection fails.  Nothing installed.

Now edit the ISS you created (eg in Notepad++ - set language: INI).  Notice two lines related to Word Provider and Excel Provider?  Do you remember seeing them in the list of features when you interactively created the response file?  No, and I didn't either.  And they're not in the original setup.ISS that came in the extracted files.  Some ghosts that were not supposed to be there?

Trick 2:  On a hunch, I removed the Word Provider and Excel Provider in the ISS.  I had to subtract 2 off the section counter, and re-number the other items around them so they number from 0 through to counter-1.  A programmer who plays with arrays will recognise this, 0-based numbering system.

Re-ran the silent installer, as above, with the amended ISS file, now it worked.

Hope it helps someone else.

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