Windows XP unattended install keeps asking for Plug and Play monitor driver

As far as I know the majority of businesses using the Windows platform are still using Windows XP and haven’t made the move to Windows Vista yet. If this is the case in your environment there’s a good chance you’re using some sort of deployment tool to manage desktop/laptop rollouts. Sometimes, though, you receive a message during the Windows XP unattended install asking for a driver for the...

Error 29506 when installing SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express on Vista

If you need to install SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express on Windows Vista you might receive an error like the screenshot below....

How to perform an unattended installation of SNMP on Windows Server 2003

Continuing with the recent history of unattended installation articles, this post contains instructions on how to install SNMP quickly and quietly from the command line. SNMP is useful, for example, when you need to tap into the server with monitoring tools like MRTG, Op Manager, IP Sentry etc....

Old school DOS command for file clean-up

It’s time for a bit of a step back now – to the days of DOS commands. Let’s say you want to delete all files matching a file pattern. What do you do? I’m talking about something slightly more useful and complex than ‘del *.*’ …...

Post-build Windows unattended installation script

The last few articles on Digital Formula have been about unattended installations of various Windows components and add-ons. You’ll get most use out of these articles if you take the steps described in them and make up a post-build script that you can run when Windows has finished installing....