If you want to install Tomcat on Windows system as a service, you'll get the recommendation to use the 32-/64-Bit Windows Service Installer. If you want to install the Tomcat manually, it's fine. But you can't use this installer for an automatic installation and configuration of Tomcat, because the installer is UI-based. The next sections explain how you can install and configure Tomcat on a CMD.

Tomcat Installation

1. Download from the Apache Tomcat 8.5 download page the Core 64-bit Windows zip (or the 32-Bit zip).
2. Unzip it (for example to C:\tomcat\)

That's it. Now we have a ready-to-use Tomcat with default configuration values. But it isn't install as a service.

Installation and Configuration As Windows Service

1. Go to the bin folder in the installation folder of Tomcat (in the example  it's C:\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.5.11\bin)
2. Install Tomcat as service named tomcat8 by calling service.bat install <servicename>

1C:\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.5.11\bin>service.bat install tomcat8

3.  tomcat8.exe //US//<servicename> followed by configuration parameter configures the Tomcat service. For example:

1C:\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.5.11\bin>tomcat8.exe //US//tomcat8 --Startup=auto --JavaHome="C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_112" --JvmMs=2048 --JvmMx=4096 ++JvmOptions=-Dkey=value

4. Start the Tomcat service with net start <servicename>

1net start tomcat8

5. You can check on http://localhost:8080 whether Tomcat is installed correctly.

The configuration example (step 3) shows how to configure the JVM (heap space, Java option etc.), where Java is installed and which start type should use for the service. The full list of the possible configuration parameter for the Tomcat service can be found in the Apache Tomcat's Windows Service documentation. Now we have everything together for writing a Powershell script that does these steps automatically.