Archive for September, 2010

Visual Studio 2010 – Unattended Silent Install

You can find on MSDN How to: Create and Run an Unattended Visual Studio Setup. This post focuses on unattended installation of VS 2010 product only (without SDK) along with screenshots and hints on what to avoid. Below are the steps I have followed to create a silent unattended installation script for VS 2010. Create the VS 2010 unattend configuration [ READ MORE ]

SQL Server 2008 R2 – Unattended Silent Install

There is existing documentation on MSDN about How to: Install SQL Server 2008 R2 from the Command Prompt, but this post focuses on creating a silent unattended install of SQL Server 2008 R2 (Standard or Enterprise) using a configuration file. With the instructions below, you’ll be able to create a new customized SQL silent installation in minimal [ READ MORE ]

Content DB Attach using PowerShell

In this post, I’ll talk about how to attach\mount a SharePoint content database to a SharePoint web application after it has been restored\attached to the SQL server. See my previous post for details on how to restore a database using PowerShell. SharePoint provides a cmdlet to do the content db attach. This cmdlet is called [ READ MORE ]

SQL DB Restore using PowerShell

If you are looking for a PowerShell script that lets you restore a database from a backup (.bak) file to MSSQL server, then this is the right place for you. Database Restore - SQL Let’s say you have a .bak file (Ex: AdventureWorks), and you would like to restore it to an SQL server using PowerShell. [ READ MORE ]

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