Command line installation

The following settings are intended for use only with the reduced, basic and none level of the user interface. See documentation for the msiexec version used for the appropriate command line switches.

Supported parameters:

APPDIR=<path>

•path - Valid directory path

•Application installation directory

•For example: emsx_nt64.msi /qn APPDIR=C:\ESET\ ADDLOCAL=DocumentProtection

APPDATADIR=<path>

•path - Valid directory path

•Application Data installation directory

MODULEDIR=<path>

•path - Valid directory path

•Module installation directory

ADDLOCAL=<list>

•Component installation - list of non-mandatory features to be installed locally.

•Usage with ESET .msi packages: emsx_nt64.msi /qn ADDLOCAL=<list>

•For more information about the ADDLOCAL property see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/desktop/Msi/addlocal

•The ADDLOCAL list is a comma-separated list of all feature that will be installed.

•When selecting a feature to be installed, the full path (all parent features) must be explicitly included in the list.

REMOVE=<list>

•Component installation - parent feature you do not want to have installed locally.

•Usage with ESET .msi packages: emsx_nt64.msi /qn REMOVE=<list>

•For more information about the REMOVE property see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/desktop/Msi/remove

•The REMOVE list is a comma-separated list of parent features that will not be installed (or will be removed in case of existing installation).

•It is sufficient to specify parent feature only. There is no need to explicitly include every child feature to the list.

ADDEXCLUDE=<list>

•The ADDEXCLUDE list is a comma-separated list of all feature names not to be installed.

•When selecting a feature not to be installed, then the whole path (i.e., all its sub-features) and related invisible features must be explicitly included in the list.

•For example: emsx_nt64.msi /qn ADDEXCLUDE=<list>

ADDEXCLUDE cannot be used with ADDLOCAL

Feature Presence:

•Mandatory - The feature is always installed.

•Optional - The feature may be deselected for install.

•Invisible - Logical feature mandatory for other features to work properly.

List of ESET Mail Security features:

Names of all the features are case sensitive, for example RealtimeProtection is not equal to REALTIMEPROTECTION.

Feature Name	Feature Presence
SERVER	Mandatory
RealtimeProtection	Mandatory
MAILSERVER	Mandatory
WMIProvider	Mandatory
HIPS	Mandatory
Updater	Mandatory
eShell	Mandatory
UpdateMirror	Mandatory
DeviceControl	Optional
DocumentProtection	Optional
WebAndEmail	Optional
ProtocolFiltering	Invisible
NetworkProtection	Optional
IdsAndBotnetProtection	Optional
Rmm	Optional
WebAccessProtection	Optional
EmailClientProtection	Optional
MailPlugins	Invisible
Cluster	Optional
_Base
eula
ShellExt	Optional
_FeaturesCore
GraphicUserInterface	Optional
SysInspector	Optional
EnterpriseInspector	Optional

If you want to remove any of the following features, you need to remove the whole group by specifying every feature that belongs to the group. Otherwise, the feature will not be removed. Here are two groups (each line represents one group):

GraphicUserInterface,ShellExt

NetworkProtection,WebAccessProtection,IdsAndBotnetProtection,ProtocolFiltering,MailPlugins,EmailClientProtection

Exclude NetworkProtection section (including child features) from the installation using REMOVE parameter and specifying only parent feature:

msiexec /i emsx_nt64.msi /qn ADDLOCAL=ALL REMOVE=NetworkProtection

Alternatively, you can use ADDEXCLUDE parameter, but you must also specify all child features:

msiexec /i emsx_nt64.msi /qn ADDEXCLUDE=NetworkProtection,WebAccessProtection,IdsAndBotnetProtection,^
ProtocolFiltering,MailPlugins,EmailClientProtection

If you want your ESET Mail Security to be automatically configured after the installation, you can specify basic configuration parameters within the installation command.

Install ESET Mail Security and disable ESET LiveGrid®:

msiexec /i emsx_nt64.msi /qn /l*xv msi.log CFG_LIVEGRID_ENABLED=0

List of all configuration properties:

Switch	Value
CFG_POTENTIALLYUNWANTED_ENABLED=1/0	0 - Disabled, 1 - Enabled
CFG_LIVEGRID_ENABLED=1/0	0 - Disabled, 1 - Enabled
FIRSTSCAN_ENABLE=1/0	0 - Disable, 1 - Enable
CFG_PROXY_ENABLED=0/1	0 - Disabled, 1 - Enabled
CFG_PROXY_ADDRESS=<ip>	Proxy IP address
CFG_PROXY_PORT=<port>	Proxy port number
CFG_PROXY_USERNAME=<user>	Username for authentication
CFG_PROXY_PASSWORD=<pass>	Password for authentication

Language parameters: Product language (you must specify both parameters)

Switch	Value
PRODUCT_LANG=	LCID Decimal (Locale ID), for example 1033 for English - United States, see the list of language codes.
PRODUCT_LANG_CODE=	LCID String (Language Culture Name) in lowercase, for example en-us for English - United States, see the list of language codes.

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