OBS v25.0.8 - Silent/Quiet install and deployment for SCCM?

[JWetzler]

Hello everyone,

I need to be able to use SCCM to install OBS to several PCs at our school. I'd like to be able to install it silently so that it doesn't interrupt the targeted users.

I can't find any switches for the full installer: OBS-Studio-25.0.8-Full-Installer-x64.exe

-help, /help, -?, /? none of them show the common available switches for unattended and silent installs. I've tried running with those switches anyway, and while I don't get an error - the installer is still visible and has to be manually progressed.

Anyone know of a way to install silent, or know of a workaround?

Can I just copy the zip file contents directly to C:\program files\obs-studio\ or do I have to copy some files to ProgramData, user profile, etc?

 

[JWetzler]

Nevermind, it appears that using /S will install silently.

OBS-Studio-25.0.8-Full-Installer-x64.exe /S

 

[msiNOW]

not having much luck with this, is there anything else you had to do here? I have the same problem. It can be hit and miss with EXE files, and in this case i am not able to deploy it successfully. I will dig into the error more, but i am using the /S switch.

 

[msiNOW]

I got it working sort of, you have to allow it to interact with the desktop, the user then has to run through the installer themselves. This works OK except in terms of upgrades. Because when you upgrade, i think it wants to overwrite files that the interactive user does not have rights to. I still have to test and verify that this is indeed the problem.

i saw that there is a feature request to develop an MSI installer that was declined some months ago.

use an msix installer · OBS Studio Ideas and Suggestions

it makes installing and uninstalling easier on windows.

ideas.obsproject.com

thats really a shame. Because pretty much every corp that deploys via system center or group policy is going to run into the same problem. I guess this is more of free home user software, and i shouldnt expect it to be up to corporate for-profit standards. But you would think with everyone doing more online content in corporations now a days that you guys would make it more corporate friendly. Heck i would pay a few hundred dollars for a "site license" that enabled this functionality, as it would save literally days of time setting this up by hand on say a hundred computers. Many of which are now remote and extremely hard to install software on manually in any easy way.

will post back if i find another work around that allows upgrades to work as well. or ideally a method to NOT have to use interactive installer. Maybe i can do it with a script of somesort.

 

[R1CH]

Running the installer with /S worked fine for me, full install with no user interaction. Note that it must start elevated since it installs to program files.