Follow up – How to perform an unattended installation of the .NET Framework 2.0

Some time ago I wrote an article about how to do an unattended install of the .NET Framework 2.0. A visitor asked the following question about doing this in a login script:...

How to perform an unattended installation of the .NET Framework 3.5 w/ SP1

This post in in response to a couple of questions I’ve had about which versions of the .NET Framework you need to install and in what order. The .NET Framework 3.5 with SP1 includes .NET 3.5 (without any service packs), .NET 3.0 *and* .NET 2.0 – you don’t need to install any of those before installing .NET Framework 3.5 with SP1. Here is a simple script that you can run to silently install the...

SQL Server 2005 Express Unattended Install – Further Info

Recently I posted an article about how to perform an unattended installation of SQL Server 2005 Express. A comment was posted asking how to set some specific options during the installation – here’s how....

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....

How to perform an unattended installation of the .NET Framework 3.0

For a lot of applications today you’ll need to install the Microsoft .NET Framework on your Windows systems to get them working. The Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0 is installed as part of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista but what if you’re running a previous version of Windows and want to roll out version 3.0 of the .NET Framework?...