Creating a Pretty Good Installer Script for Microsoft Edge

Here is a work in progress sample for a better installer script for Microsoft Edge. Any comments/feedback/ideas are more than welcome 🙂

Since the initial release I've removed the master_preferences section since its not support by Microsoft Edge (only for Google Chrome).

ConfigMgr Native Script for Edge

The native ConfigMgr script adds an update channel to the registry, so I added the autoupdate script snippet here for reference. I was planning on "borrowing" some of this logic for my own script, but wanted to learn more about the AutoUpdateValueName / EdgeUpdate registry options first.. Stay tuned (or comment if you have more info).

# Code for Stable Release, just removed the param block, and the msiexec portion
$ChannelID = "{56eb18f8-b008-4cbd-b6d2-8c97fe7e9062}"

# Registry value name is in the format "Update<{ChannelID}> where ChannelID is the GUID
Set-Variable -Name "AutoUpdateValueName" -Value "Update$ChannelID" -Option Constant
Set-Variable -Name "RegistryPath" -Value "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate" -Option Constant

# Test if the registry key exists. If it doesn't, create it
$EdgeUpdateRegKeyExists = Test-Path -Path $RegistryPath

if (!$EdgeUpdateRegKeyExists)
{
    New-Item -Path $RegistryPath
}

# See if the autoupdate value exists
if (!(Get-ItemProperty -Path $RegistryPath -Name $AutoUpdateValueName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue))
{
    New-ItemProperty -Path $RegistryPath -Name $AutoUpdateValueName -Value 0 -PropertyType DWord
}

The Script

Below is what I come up with so far, and as mentioned previously the master_preferences file seem not to work…

# Script for installing Microsoft Edge using MDT 
# Author: Johan Arwidmark (@jarwidmark on Twitter)

# Figure out where the script is started from, works when using F8 in PowerShell ISE too :)
$ScriptDir = $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
if (-Not $ScriptDir) {
    $ScriptDir = $psISE.CurrentFile.Fullpath
}
if ($ScriptDir) {
    $ScriptDir = Split-Path $ScriptDir -Parent
}

Function TimeStamp {$(Get-Date -UFormat "%D %T")} 

# Figuring out where to save the log files
# If MDT Task Sequence environment is found, log to default MDT log file location
# If no MDT environment is found, log to C:\Windows\Temp
try{
    $tsenv = New-Object -COMObject Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment 
    $LogFile = "$($tsenv.Value("LogPath"))\Install-MicrosoftEdge.log"
    $MSILogFile = "$($tsenv.Value("LogPath"))\Install-MicrosoftEdgeMS"

}
catch{
    # No MDT environment found
    $LogFile = "C:\Windows\Temp\Install-MicrosoftEdge.log"
    $MSILogFile = "C:\Windows\Temp\Install-MicrosoftEdgeMS"
}

# Setup variables
$SetupName = "Microsoft Edge"
$SetupFile = "msiexec.exe"
$SetupArguments = "/i `"$ScriptDir\MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi`" /q /l $MSILogFile"

# Delete log files if exist
If (Test-Path $LogFile){Remove-Item -Path $LogFile -Force }
If (Test-Path $MSILogFile){Remove-Item -Path $MSILogFile -Force }

# Start logging
"$(TimeStamp) Starting install of $SetupName" | Out-File -Append $LogFile
"$(TimeStamp) About to run the following command line: $SetupFile $SetupArguments" | Out-File -Append $LogFile

# Start Installation
$Result = Start-Process -FilePath $SetupFile -ArgumentList $SetupArguments -Wait -Passthru

# Check the result
If($Result.Exitcode -ne 0)
{
     # Not good, setup failed
     "$(TimeStamp) ERROR: Setup failed with exit code $($Result.Exitcode), review $MSILogFile and msedge_installer.log for more details" | Out-File -Append $LogFile
     "$(TimeStamp) NOTE: If the MSI log shows `"Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.`" it's most commonly because Windows 10 was not updated with the latest CU" | Out-File -Append $LogFile
}
Else{
    "$(TimeStamp) All good, setup compleeted with exit code $($Result.Exitcode)" | Out-File -Append $LogFile 
}

# Remove Desktop Shortcut
Remove-Item -Path "$Env:PUBLIC\Desktop\Microsoft Edge.lnk"