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.

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.

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 [...]

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.