Silent Install is a tool which enables you to install Kentico CMS directly from command line, without any user interface and user interaction involved. All that is needed is to prepare an XML file with configuration of the installation and execute a command from the command line. The main purpose of the tool is the possibility of automated installation of Kentico CMS.

 

Silent Install is capable of substituting the whole installation procedure including:

 

•Setup (kenticocms.exe) - it installs the web project files to a specified location on your hard drive.

•Web Installer - it creates a new website project and optionally configures IIS.

•Database setup - it creates a new database with system tables and basic data on your SQL server.

•New site wizard - it allows you to install websites based on available web templates.

 

A ZIP package containing the tool can be downloaded from http://www.kentico.com/downloads/SilentInstall.zip. Detailed documentation of the silent installation procedure together with reference on required format of the configuration XML file can be found in the Docs folder within the package.