About silent assisted installations (Windows)

During a silent (unattended) installation, user interaction with the FileMaker Server installer is kept to a minimum. Required installation information is read from the personalization file, Assisted Install.txt, and installation screens are not displayed. See Customize the personalization file.

Important If you choose to perform a silent installation, the installation screens do not display. However, you are still required to accept the terms that are stated on the installation screens. Specifically, if the End User License Agreement (EULA) screen will not be displayed, then in the Assisted Install.txt file, you are required to set License Accepted= to either 1 (yes) or 0 (no). The default value is 0. If you set License Accepted= to 1, this signifies your acceptance of the EULA text on the EULA screen.

There are two ways to perform a silent installation. Users can:

Double-click the Setup.exe file, which is located on the mounted volume. This method requires that you modify the Setup.ini file. See Modify Setup.ini for silent installation (Windows).
Type the installation command and applicable options at the command line. See Perform a silent installation using the command line (Windows).

Important

FileMaker Server requires that ports 80 and 443 be available on the user’s machine. If they are not available, the software will not install.
FileMaker Server requires the following components:
- Java Runtime Environment
- Bonjour for Windows
- Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Redistributable Package
  
  Note Starting with version 19.2.1, FileMaker Server no longer installs or requires Microsoft Visual C++.
FileMaker Server installer automatically installs these components if they are not on the user's machine. For information about FileMaker Server hardware and software requirements, see the FileMaker Server system requirements.