Saturday, April 13, 2013

TFPT Command Line Install

the TFS power tools are a strong and helpfull extenstion.
they only have one problem, they contain the Process Template Editor.
it's true that permission issues prevent you from performing mistakes.
but in every organization there are some people who have the permission and tempering with the process template is not somthing they should do.

i have looked around and could not find any documaentation about silent install with selected featues
so i look in the MSI  (InstEd) and using the Msiexec paramters, I managed to create a silent intall batch that enables you to select the features.

Features you can use:
FeatureDescription
CHECKINPOLICIESCheckin policies
TSXIntegration with Windows Shell
TSX_64Integration with Windows Shell for 64bit OS
CLICommand line Application (tfpt.exe)
VSIPIntegration with Visual Studio (Find, Rollback, ...)
TFPSPowerShell Scripts
PROCESSEDITORProcess Template Editor
BPABest Practices Analyzer
TCMACTest Attachment Cleaner
BRDatabase Backup Tools
TFSTORYBOARDStoryboard Shapes Authoring Tool (TFS2012 only)

Ex. install only checkin policies, windows shell integration, command line and Visual Studio integration
msiexec /quiet /i tfpt.msi ADDDEFAULT=CHECKINPOLICIES,TSX,CLI,VSIP

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