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 [...]

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.

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 *.*’ …

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.

There’s not a lot of point having an article on this site about how to perform an unattended installation of IIS6 (Windows XP & Windows Server 2003) and ignore IIS7 (Windows Server 2008 & Windows Vista). So, here’s the article about how to perform an unattended installation of IIS7. Ready?

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 [...]

If you’re a user of SQL Server 2005 Express you might now be wondering how you can manage the database server. After all, it didn’t install any management tools for you to play around with. What’s up with that? You’re about to find out.

To continue on with the theme of unattended installation-related posts lately, what if you want to install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition in unattended mode? SQL Server 2000 had the ability to save the installation into a file called setup.iss - how nice of Microsoft to remove this feature from SQL Server 2005 … [...]

At some stage you will want to install IIS6 on a server that doesn’t already have it. Let’s assume for a minute that you’re the administrator of a network with servers that require a fairly standard installation of IIS6 - why not create a script that does it all with one click? Read [...]

For a lot of applications today you’ll need to install the Microsoft .NET Framework on your Windows systems to get them working. If you’re one of the administrators around the world that hasn’t made the jump to Windows Vista yet then you’ll know that the .NET Framework 2.0 doesn’t come pre-installed with Windows XP.