downloading and Installing msi from sharefile - powershell

Question

I am trying to put together a powershell script to download firefox msi from sharefile and silently install.
I finally got the download part to work. However, installing does not. When I navigate to the folders where I downloaded firefox msi to (C:\, C:\users\public, and my desktop) I get the following errors:
This app can't run on your PC
This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify this is a valid windows installer package.
I downloaded the exe from mozilla site and msi from front motion.
The share the software is in is open to everyone on network.
I get same errors for both exe and msi.
This is my current script:
#Download and Run MSI package for Automated install
$uri = "https://sharefile.com/app/#/home/shared/foe0295b-0fbf-4ad9-ad73-fc18d26ba705/FirefoxInstaller.msi"
$out = "c:\FireFoxInstaller.msi"
Invoke-WebRequest -uri $uri -OutFile $out
Start-Process -FilePath "msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList "/i $out /quiet /norestart /l c:\installlog.txt"

Answer 1

To grab the latest version of Firefox, try the following (replacing the Outfile to your own valid location);
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-msi-latest-ssl&os=win64&lang=en-GB" -Outfile c:\temp\firefox.msi
To install, I use;
start /wait msiexec /i C:\temp\Firefox.msi /quiet

Answer 2

Recently I had a similar issue, where I wanted to deploy HipChat to the whole company. The major difference is that I check if the software is already installed before downloading and trying to install it again, it's very simple and compatible with Windows 7 and 10:
$file = 'HipChat-4.29.5.1662-win32.msi'
$link = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/hipchat-ops/hipchat4/windows/$file"
$soft_name = 'Hipchat'
$find = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Filter "Name = `'$soft_name`'"
if ($find -eq $null) {
$tmp = "$env:TEMP\$file"
$client = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$client.DownloadFile($link, $tmp)
msiexec /i $tmp /qn
del $tmp
echo "Tried installing $soft_name"
} else {
echo "ERROR: $soft_name is already installed."
echo $find
exit 1
}
exit 0

Answer 3

As you stated you have an MSI of your choice, but I justed used the MSI from Frontmotion
This worked when I did it, but let me know if it worked for you.
#Download and Run MSI package for Automated install
$uri = "http://hicap.frontmotion.com.s3.amazonaws.com/Firefox/Firefox-53.0.3/Firefox-53.0.3-en-US.msi"
$out = "c:\FireFoxInstaller.msi"
Function Download_MSI_FireFox_Installer{
Invoke-WebRequest -uri $uri -OutFile $out
$msifile = Get-ChildItem -Path $out -File -Filter '*.ms*'
write-host "FireFox MSI $msifile "
}
Function Install_FireFox{
$FileExists = Test-Path $msifile -IsValid
$DataStamp = get-date -Format yyyyMMddTHHmmss
$logFile = '{0}-{1}.log' -f $msifile.fullname,$DataStamp
$MSIArguments = #(
"/i"
('"{0}"' -f $msifile.fullname)
"/qn"
"/norestart"
"/L*v"
$logFile
)
If ($FileExists -eq $True)
{
Start-Process "msiexec.exe" -ArgumentList $MSIArguments -passthru | wait-process
write-host "Finished msi "$msifile
}
Else {Write-Host "File doesn't exists"}
}
Download_MSI_FireFox_Installer
Install_FireFox

Answer 4

I think the $msifile assignment needs to be moved outside the Download_MSI_FireFox_Installer function, otherwise, I get an error that the path is null in the InstallFireFox function.