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.

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.

I’m pretty keen on finding ways to keep my system optimised. So much so that I often break stuff on my machine trying various things but hey, you make an omelette if you don’t break a few eggs.

Unlike Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista, Windows PowerShell is not a downloadable component for Windows Server 2008. Here’s how to install it on your Windows Server 2008 machine.

I should’ve mentioned this in a previous post but I forgot - sorry. When you’re using the .NET assemblies in conjunction with PowerShell, for example when you want to control Windows services, you might sometimes receive a cryptic message that looks similar to the following.

As I said in my previous post, PowerShell - Why won’t my scripts execute?, Microsoft Powershell is becoming the way to script and automate tasks in Windows.