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AXUpdate in silent mode - Parameter not recognized

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Posted on by Gao Lu Wang 182

Hi all,

I have a AX 2012 R3 environment. I ran AXUpdate to upgrade it to CU11. Now the AOS and the client in AOS server are upgraded.

Now I want to upgrade the other clients in other computers. Because there are several clients,I want to run AXUpdate in silent mode as mentioned in this  article https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh538439.aspx.

I create a parameter file and run AXUpdate  like this  <Path to shared directory>\AXUpdate.exe ParmFile=<path of file\FileName.txt>.

I got the error in DynamicsSetupLog "The parameter InstallClientOBA was not recognized."

I don't know how to resolve this issue. Can you provide me some hint?

 

Someone met similar issue in the discussion https://community.dynamics.com/ax/f/33/t/178951. But there is no further information.

 

And I realized that there may be no paramater to specify the location of update package (Package.axupdate).

Did anyone upgrade AX 2012 R3 client to CU11 in silent mode and show the sample parameter file? 

 

Below is the content of my parameter file.

AcceptLicenseTerms=1
AosInstanceName=DAX
AosStart=0
HideUI=1
InstallAos=0
InstallClientOBA=1

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  • Gao Lu Wang Profile Picture
    Gao Lu Wang 182 on at

    Did anybody did such task? Silent upgrade AX 2012 R3 to CU11?

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    We only did silent updates for earlier versions (R1) and all worked fine.

    If you are just doing client deployments, you might want to first uninstall the previous client and setup support files. Create a streamlined installer with having the patches available in the update folder.

    I was unable to find a parameter flag you have set in the Setup parameters reference guide, maybe that is your issue. Take a read here:

    technet.microsoft.com/.../aa548130.aspx

    That should be InstallClientUI=1

  • Gao Lu Wang Profile Picture
    Gao Lu Wang 182 on at

    Thanks for your reply.

    Do you mean I need uninstalled all clients before I can upgrade them?

    If there are many clients installed, there will be much work to do. 

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    First of all, have you tried removing the incorrect parameter int he XML and use the one in the example by the link provided? If yes, and silent install goes through, please mark the topic answered.

    Second, if powershell is available on the client computers (if not then just deploy it and enable remote powershell), you could just write a powershell script and call it in a remote session with new-pssession and trigger the uninstall / install procedure without any manual labour.

  • Gao Lu Wang Profile Picture
    Gao Lu Wang 182 on at

    Sorry for the delay,                                                                                                                 do you mean I need uninstall and install it?                                                                                                                                       why I can not upgrade the client in silent mode?  

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    You do not need to uninstall the client, but doing so is a cleaner solution in case some functionality or libraries are changed and/or deprecated. It is unclear if the silent installer actually does clean up old DLLs, registry entries, whatsoever properly. So we have made a habit out of doing it this way, however it is up to you to do the same, or just install it on top of an existing deployment.

  • Gao Lu Wang Profile Picture
    Gao Lu Wang 182 on at

    It is a standard AX 2012 R3 environment,what I want to do it to upgrade the AX 2012 R3 client to CU11, I already have the file Package.axupdate in the server.

    I can update the client manually.But now I want to use silent mode because there are several R3 clients in other computers.

  • Gao Lu Wang Profile Picture
    Gao Lu Wang 182 on at

    If there is a Production environment and there are many clients installed, one day you need to install an update such as CU11, how do you update these clients? Need to uninstall and install one by one? Has Microsoft provided a solutions? Any help would be appreciated.

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    Community Member on at

    We are having the same issue.  The InstallClientOBA parameter is not recognised and the documentation at technet.microsoft.com/.../hh538445.aspx appears to be out of date with regards to more recent CU's at least.

    Based on a comment on that TechNet page we tried guessing the parameter by copying the name in the log file, in this case InstallClientOba64 but that also is not recognised.

    The install parameter suggested by Vilmos is also not recognised.

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    Recently we have done an AX 2012 RTM FPK -> R3 upgrade, for which I have used the silent installer to deploy the AX AOS, and in a separate step all other components just fine, using powershell.

    This worked perfectly:

    <Setup_components_R3.txt>

    #=====COMMON PARAMETERS=====#

AcceptLicenseTerms=1

HideUI=1

OptInCEIP=1

UseMicrosoftUpdate=1

InstallClientUI=1

InstallDebugger=1

InstallNetBusinessConnector=1

InstallManagementUtilities=1

ClientLanguage=EN-GB

ClientInstallType=2

CreateClientDesktopShortcut=1

ClientAosServer=MYSERVERNAME

AosInstanceName=

AosPort=2712

AosWsdlPort=8101

    <setup.ps1>

    $VerbosePreference = 'Continue'
Start-Transcript -Path "C:\install\setuplog.txt" -Verbose
# Install R3 AX AOS
Start-Process "C:\install\DynamicsAX2012_R3_CU10\setup.exe" "ParmFile=C:\install\Setup_components_R3.txt" -Wait
explorer.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\60\Setup Logs
Stop-Transcript

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