Internet Explorer 10 Silent Install & Configuration Manager Application Setup

Deploying Internet Explorer 10 Silently via Configuration Manager

Internet Explorer 10 supports a fully silent, unattended install, which makes it straightforward to package as a Configuration Manager (SCCM) Application for machines that are still on Windows 7 and haven’t yet been upgraded. The command line for a silent, no-reboot install is:

IE10-Windows6.1-x64-en-us.exe /quiet /norestart

(swap in the x86 build and the correct language code if you need a 32-bit or non-English install). When you set this up as an Application in the Configuration Manager console, give it a detection method based on the Internet Explorer version registry value — HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet Explorer, checking the svcVersion or Version value — rather than just checking the executable exists, so Configuration Manager can correctly report compliance and won’t try to reinstall on machines that already have it. A couple of things worth flagging: IE10 requires a supported service pack level on the target OS, and because Internet Explorer has been deprecated in favour of Microsoft Edge, this deployment pattern only really makes sense today on legacy Windows 7 estates that haven’t completed their upgrade path yet. For anything on Windows 10 or later, Edge is the supported browser and IE mode inside Edge covers the vast majority of legacy-compatibility needs.

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