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silently unzipping Patches & Cumulative updates.

  • August 8, 2011 at 10:20 am

    #245931

    Im writing a script to silently install Cumulative updates.

    ive downloaded an update ( CU6 ) and am trying to silently extract it. i am providing an unzip location and as per this kb from microsoft, i am adding the /passive switch:

    C:\installFiles\CU6\404700_intl_i386_zip.exe /extract:c:\SQLServer2008_FullSP1\PCU /silent

    The problem is that no matter what i do, as soon as i run the above line, or one of hte many variiations ive tried, it always brings up a dialog box, asks the user if they want to unzip and asks for an unzip location.

    any advice on how to silently, without user interaction, unzip this package?

  • August 8, 2011 at 11:06 am

    #1365401

    Figured it out. Microsoft provide the CU files in self extracting zipped files. when i unzip the files the exe's are unzipped, and i can use the /passive flag to silently extract the files for the CU.

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