I am using unuttended install for a while for single machines, My current
requirement is to install SQL 2008 on 75 enviornment from SQL 2005 side by
side upgrade...

I am thinking of using remote installation since all these boxes are on same
doamin, in SQL 2005 I have read about remote installation supported (see
below link), but in 2008 I am not able to find any method supported for the
same...

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http://www.sqlservercentral.com/arti...rver2005/1943/
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One of the other cool things I want to mention is support for Remote
Installation. Via the command line you can enter parameters for the
destination computer, with admin account and password. If you’ve ever had to
deal with image-based deployment of SQL Server on multiple machines, based on
your predefined installation, you most likely ran into the headache of having
to manually change the server name. Well, now upon immediate completion of
installation, SQL Server will check if the computer name has changed, and
update this automatically. Moreover, the need to run setup to reset the
computer name is eliminated – simply change the name, restart the service,
and update the sysservers table using sp_dropserver/sp_addserver.
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Anybody know what happened? is remote installation feature depriciated in
SQL 2008? orit was not there at all?


Prakash Heda
Sr Database Infrastructure Consultant

"Prakash Heda" <Prakash Heda (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote

This link documents all parameters to install SQL Server 2008:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259.aspx

I think you want to use:

/TCPENABLED=1
/NPENABLED=0

This enables TCP and disabled Named Pipes. Note that
/DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS is not supported.

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Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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this link suggests for local or cluster installation and about unuttended
install...its not talking about using remote installation where I can specify
destination computer to install?

"Richard Mueller [MVP]" wrote: