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(1 of 2) SQL Server Express 2005 embedded install and Network Visibility

Asked by WernerVonBraun in SQL Server 2005, MS SQL Server, Developer Tools

Tags: SQL express 2005 embedded

I'm writing an installer for our product that contains the option to install a new SQL Express instance (SQL Server Express 2005 SP3)

After extracting all the installation files, I invoke setup.exe - I ask user to provide domain, NT username and password and I pass those on as command line parameters:

/qn ADDLOCAL=ALL SQLBROWSERACCOUNT=[theentereddomainname]\[theenteredusername] SQLBROWSERPASSWORD=[you guessed it] INSTANCENAME=[our product's name] SQLBROWSERAUTOSTART=1

So far so good, it installs quite well, but I realised soon enough that I had a few problems. The new instance was working perfectly fine on the machine I created it on, but from other machines on the network it was not visible. I had to do some tweaking in SQL Server Configuration Manager (enabling TCPIP) and SQL Server Surface Area Configuration (allowing for both local and remote connections).

1) We will later create further SQL users, and allow the users to use them. I would imagine that for that I would need to add SECURITYMODE=SQL - do I also need to add SAPWD? Does the SAPWD value need to be in quotes or can I leave out the quotes provided I give it a password without spaces and other funny characters?

2) I am guessing that I will also need to set the DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS parameter, but I'm not clear on whether I should set it to 0, 1, 2 or some other value?

3) Do I need to set the SQLAUTOSTART parameter or is it defaulted to start automatically (which I what I want)?


So, first of all, could you scan over the above and confirm or deny that I've understood what I need to do correctly, but also, can you tell me if I have forgotten anything here. In the second question (2 of 2, to be posted shortly) I will ask a specific question of a problem I am experiencing right now after all the tweaking ...

Thank you so far.
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