use 7-zip to extract the contents of the QuickbooksPremier20xx.exe file to a temp directory.In the interest of completeness, here are my findings: Of course, I only found that post after spending a full day tearing apart the MSIs finding all the dependencies, and learning which msiexec switches will function. *EDIT: it looks like 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 all work with this method. I plan to test this with the older versions I still have to deploy. It most definitely works on 2022, and is probably the cleanest way.
There have been a fair amount of reddit threads over the years, along with countless other blogs and forums asking this question.Īfter reading everything that was out there, I spent some time figuring this out.įirst, the easiest way may be from this post:
