Monday, March 19, 2012

Force client components using a commmand line installation to diffrent location

Is it possible to force the SLQ 2005 Client Components to be installed into a diffrent location other than the default location?

What I'm trying to do is run the setup command though the command line to create an unattended client installation with all the client componets to a diffrent location that

Thanks, Any information or examples would be great!

There is a way to specify client component location is setup or on the command line but it can only be used for the first time SQL Server 2005 is installed on a machine. Once there is any product or instance of SQL Server 2005 on the machine this location cannot be changed. To specify the location on the command line you can use INSTALLSQLSHAREDDIR.

Note: there are still some components going under Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90 which location cannot be changed. But most of the client components is installed to INSTALLSQLSHAREDDIR.

For example:

setup.exe INSTALLSQLSHAREDDIR=D:\SQLTools ADDLOCAL=Client_Components,Connectivity,SQL_Tools90,SQL_WarehouseDevWorkbench /qb

ADDLOCAL lists all features you want to install. See template.ini in the same location as setup.exe for whole list of features.

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