How to install QuickTime silently using SCCM

QuickTime is notoriously difficult to distribute as a software package.

The following process has been tested and confirmed as working with QuickTime 7.7.5 and SCCM R3.

The installation will:

• Install QuickTime without the desktop shortcuts
• For safe measure manually delete the QuickTime desktop shortcuts if they already exist
• Remove the QuickTime startup application

1. Download standalone installer for QuickTime from http://www.apple.com/au/quicktime/download/
2. Open the folder where you saved QuickTimeInstaller.exe whilst holding shift right-click in a blank area of the window.
3. Select ‘Open command window here‘
4. 
5. Run the following command and in the command window

QuickTimeInstaller.exe /extract

3. 
3. This will leave you with the following msi install files

• AppleApplicationSupport.msi
• AppleSoftwareUpdate.msi
• QuickTime.msi
• QuickTimeInstallerAdmin.msi

4. Create a cmd file called ‘install.cmd’ and copy in the following information

@echo off
msiexec /i "%~dp0QuickTime.msi" /quiet /norestart INSTALL_DESKTOP_SHORTCUT="FALSE"
msiexec /i "%~dp0AppleApplicationSupport.msi" /quiet /norestart allusers=1
REM Remove desktop shortcut - Windows XP
if exist "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\QuickTime Player.lnk" del "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\QuickTime Player.lnk"
REM Remove desktop shortcut - Windows 7
if exist "C:\Users\Public\Desktop\QuickTime Player.lnk" del "C:\Users\Public\Desktop\QuickTime Player.lnk"
REM Removes Auto Launch from registry
reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "QuickTime Task" /f
REM Return exit code to SCCM
exit /B %EXIT_CODE%

5. 
5. Copy the MSI files and install.cmd file to your software package share and create your SCCM package, using ‘install.cmd’ to run the installation.