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Tableau 9.3 Silent install and license Activation

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Nathan Borup (HeedfulCrayon)

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to install Tableau silently and activate the license.  I got the installation to work, but the activation process never finishes, it just keeps running until I abort.  Here is the documentation tableau has for license activation:

For example, a script that could be used to activate Tableau Desktop on a Windows computer would look like the following:

@echo off
start/wait tableau.exe -activate <license-key>
if %errorlevel% EQU 0 (ECHO SUCCESS) ELSE (ECHO FAILED)

 

Can anyone help me out?

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    Charles Daniel

    What command do you process through PDQ to deploy Tableau Desktop?  I can get tableau to install but not upgrade through PDQ.

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    Nathan Borup (HeedfulCrayon)
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    As far as I know, there isn't a way to "Upgrade".  I basically use a powershell script that looks for and uninstalls any previous version.  Then I use my variables to keep track of the current approved version.

     

    I still have no way of activation

    $OldTableau = Get-ChildItem "C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{*}\*" | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "tableau*"}
    foreach($item in $OldTableau){
     if((Get-Item $item.FullName).VersionInfo.FileVersion -lt @(TableauVer)){
     $exe = [string]$item.FullName
     write-output "uninstalling $exe"
     $args = @('/uninstall', '/S')
     $proc = Start-Process -FilePath "$exe" -ArgumentList '/uninstall','/S' -Wait -PassThru
     if($proc.ExitCode -ne 0){
     write-output $proc.ExitCode
     }
     }
    }
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