Monday, March 19, 2012

Installation SQL 2005 Express from a network

Does anyone know of the procedure, steps that need to be followed to allow installing SQL 2005 Express from a network? Since SQL 2005 express requires .NET 2 and the MSI engine 3.1 and MDAC 2.8 it is a real problem pushing it from a network such as active directory using an AIP (Administrator Installation Point).

Perhaps these will help:

SQL Server 2005 UnAttended Installations
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259.aspx
http://www.devx.com/dbzone/Article/31648

As far as I am aware, there is no direct support for Enterprise use of SQL Express, including push installations. Think about it. Why would a company go to much trouble (and expense) creating an advanced tool to allow you to use a free product.

SQL Express is not positioned as an Enterprise product.

|||Thank you Arnie we will check out that article. Yea I know but we have corp. customers who want to deply SQL Express to workstations from the network and not use pull so we are trying to please them.

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