Silent installation steps

[Evans Tomassini]

Hopefully this will help some of you to get this deployed silently for
those who need it. Our image already has the Framework 3.5 and
Powershell installed so you may need to add those also for your
environment.

First run the Windows Installer 4.5 update

WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe /q

To install SQL 2008 Express silently, create a .ini file and copy the
following fields: (sorry, can't figure out how to format this so I put
in start and stop tags to help. Don't copy those.) Run with the
following command:

SQLEXPR32_x86_ENU.exe /ConfigurationFile=<name and location of .ini
file> /Q

Then run the BridgeWorks msi with the /qb setting.

msiexec /i BridgeWorksSetup_08_04_00_16_full.msi /qb

Note: This is only for a clean install.

<Configuration File Start>

;SQLSERVER2008 Configuration File
[SQLSERVER2008]

; Specify the Instance ID for the SQL Server features you have
specified. SQL Server directory structure, registry structure, and
service names will reflect the instance ID of the SQL Server
instance.

INSTANCEID="SQLExpress"

; Specifies a Setup work flow, like INSTALL, UNINSTALL, or UPGRADE.
This is a required parameter.

ACTION="Install"

; Specifies features to install, uninstall, or upgrade. The list of
top-level features include SQL, AS, RS, IS, and Tools. The SQL feature
will install the database engine, replication, and full-text. The
Tools feature will install Management Tools, Books online, Business
Intelligence Development Studio, and other shared components.

FEATURES=SQLENGINE

; Displays the command line parameters usage

HELP="False"

; Specifies that the detailed Setup log should be piped to the
console.

INDICATEPROGRESS="False"

; Setup will not display any user interface.

QUIET="False"

; Setup will display progress only without any user interaction.

QUIETSIMPLE="False"

; Specifies that Setup should install into WOW64. This command line
argument is not supported on an IA64 or a 32-bit system.

X86="False"

; Specifies the path to the installation media folder where setup.exe
is located.

MEDIASOURCE="R:\PROD Packages\Microsoft\SQL Server 2008 Express
\1_Source\"

; Specify if errors can be reported to Microsoft to improve future SQL
Server releases. Specify 1 or True to enable and 0 or False to disable
this feature.

ERRORREPORTING="False"

; Specify the root installation directory for native shared
components.

INSTALLSHAREDDIR="C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server"

; Specify the installation directory.

INSTANCEDIR="C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server"

; Specify that SQL Server feature usage data can be collected and sent
to Microsoft. Specify 1 or True to enable and 0 or False to disable
this feature.

SQMREPORTING="False"

; Specify a default or named instance. MSSQLSERVER is the default
instance for non-Express editions and SQLExpress for Express editions.
This parameter is required when installing the SQL Server Database
Engine (SQL), Analysis Services (AS), or Reporting Services (RS).

INSTANCENAME="SQLEXPRESS"

; Auto-start service after installation.

AGTSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Manual"

; Startup type for Integration Services.

ISSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Automatic"

; Account for Integration Services: Domain\User or system account.

ISSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService"

; Controls the service startup type setting after the service has been
created.

ASSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Automatic"

; The collation to be used by Analysis Services.

ASCOLLATION="Latin1_General_CI_AS"

; The location for the Analysis Services data files.

ASDATADIR="Data"

; The location for the Analysis Services log files.

ASLOGDIR="Log"

; The location for the Analysis Services backup files.

ASBACKUPDIR="Backup"

; The location for the Analysis Services temporary files.

ASTEMPDIR="Temp"

; The location for the Analysis Services configuration files.

ASCONFIGDIR="Config"

; Specifies whether or not the MSOLAP provider is allowed to run in
process.

ASPROVIDERMSOLAP="1"

; Startup type for the SQL Server service.

SQLSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Automatic"

; Level to enable FILESTREAM feature at (0, 1, 2 or 3).

FILESTREAMLEVEL="0"

; Set to "1" to enable RANU for SQL Server Express.

ENABLERANU="True"

; Specifies a Windows collation or an SQL collation to use for the
Database Engine.

SQLCOLLATION="SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS"

; Account for SQL Server service: Domain\User or system account.

SQLSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM"

; Windows account(s) to provision as SQL Server system
administrators.

;SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS=""

; Provision current user as a Database Engine system administrator for
SQL Server 2008 Express.

ADDCURRENTUSERASSQLADMIN="True"

; Specify 0 to disable or 1 to enable the TCP/IP protocol.

TCPENABLED="0"

; Specify 0 to disable or 1 to enable the Named Pipes protocol.

NPENABLED="0"

; Startup type for Browser Service.

BROWSERSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Disabled"

; Specifies how the startup mode of the report server NT service.
When
; Manual - Service startup is manual mode (default).
; Automatic - Service startup is automatic mode.
; Disabled - Service is disabled

RSSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Automatic"

; Specifies which mode report server is installed in.
; Default value: “FilesOnly”

RSINSTALLMODE="FilesOnlyMode"

<Configuration File Stop>