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  • Updating a secondary AOS instance

    Today one of my colleuges had an issue with applying a hotfix in a customers environment. The environment had three AOS instances installed on the same server which had the correct version and they installed a fourth one which they missed to patch.

    When we ran the axupdate install file we got this screen:

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    It said that there is nothing to patch… which there was… weird. So looking around the internet I found out that there is a command line parameters for axupdate called AOSINSTANCENAME… great… that should work…

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    Doh… turns out you cannot use comandline parameters unless you run a completely silent install…

    axupdate.exe AcceptLicenseTerms=1 AosInstanceName=04-AX183ByggUserTest AosStart=0 HideUI=1 InstallAos=1 LogDir=”c:\Temp”

    If you miss the HideUI=1 it will also ignore all of the other parameters Sad smile

    Well… all well that ends well

    Merry Xmas

    /Johan

  • SQL Express and the missing config file

    When you install Microsoft SQL Server the install generates a configuration file. This is great if you want to create an unattended install of SQL. If you want to do a second install (or third or fourth…) just run:  

    Setup.exe /ConfigurationFile=ConfigurationFile.INI

    and you get the same install again.

    Today I wanted to do the same with SQL express… but no file was created… Hmmm…

    Apparently you need to start the install using this:

    Setup.exe /ACTION=INSTALL /UIMODE=Normal

    /Johan

    Links

    http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/713204/SQL-Server-How-to-generate-a-configuration-fi