Ansys Silent Install -
She smiled, closed her laptop, and walked out as the sunrise hit the server room windows. Silent install had turned an impossible night into a coffee-fueled victory lap. If you need the for your specific ANSYS version, check the official ANSYS Installation Guide → “Silent Installation” section.
@echo off for /L %%i in (1,1,120) do ( psexec \\WS-%%i -s cmd /c "E:\setup.exe -silent -input_file \\deploy\configs\ansys.res -wait -log C:\ansys_install.log" ) At 3:47 AM, the first machine lit up. No prompts. No dialogs. Just a quiet msiexec process in task manager and a growing C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc folder. ansys silent install
She opened the file. It looked like this (anonymized): She smiled, closed her laptop, and walked out
At 2 AM, Jenna sat in the data center with a cup of cold coffee. Her task: deploy ANSYS on 120 engineering workstations before sunrise. Clicking through each GUI installer was impossible—she’d already tried on three machines and wanted to throw her mouse through a wall. @echo off for /L %%i in (1,1,120) do
Then came the silent deployment script (deploy.bat):
setup.exe -silent -record_response C:\ansys_silent.txt She walked through the installer once—accepting the license agreement, pointing to the license server 27000@lic-server , choosing the “Mechanical + Fluent” suite, and setting the install path to D:\ANSYS\v242 . At the end, the installer saved her every click into ansys_silent.txt .