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.

Ok, I know a thing or two about backups. I’ve been working with them for years using software such as CA Arcserve by Computer Associates and Backup Exec by Symantec (although Backup Exec was originally made by Veritas, since bought out by Symantec).