Silently installing the LogonBox Windows VPN client

Christopher Dakin

The LogonBox branded VPN client adds extra functionality to a generic WireGuard client, most notably it will automatically generate and manage your client configuration files, as well as adding support for multi-factor authentication.

This article will show you the options for silently installing the client using either the EXE or MSI

The client can be downloaded from the LogonBox VPN UI.

 

1. Downloading the client

Navigate to https://<logonboxserver> and log on with your user account into the User Portal.

 

You should be presented with the Overview page.

The OS should be detected correctly and the download should default to your current client OS.

You can choose to download a client for another OS by clicking the dropdown and selecting which client you need.

Click the Download button to get your client.

 

2. Installing the client

There are two options you can pass to the client, which will set ‘Allow non-administrators to update’ (which defaults to true, and ‘Run LogonBox VPN Client’ (which also defaults to true).

To have these settings install silently and be turned off, you can run the executable installer with these options:

-VpreventExecuteLauncherAction=true
-VuserUpdates=false

 

For example:

logonbox-vpn-client-windows-x64-2.4.0-1014.exe -q -VpreventExecuteLauncherAction=true -VuserUpdates=false

 

MSI install:

For the msi client, you can pass the parameters in this way:

logonbox-vpn-client-windows-x64-3.0.2-211.msi /q PROPERTY="preventExecuteLauncherAction=true" PROPERTY="userUpdates=false"