Hi
I'm trying to create an unattendedinstallation file of MSMQ to send
out with an installation to automatically install MSMQ if it's not on
the target machine. Now i@ve created a btach file that will run and
start sysocmgr.exe automatically, however no matter what I do it still
asks me for the Windows XP cd to find the .dll files required for
installation. I've looked at the MSDN forums and their tech net pages
and I found the three locations (%%WINDIR%%\system32\dllcache, %%WINDIR%%
\Driver Cache & the servicePack directory.) where the setup api is
supposed to look for the files, I went as far as finding out exactly
which files the setup needs to proceed and copied them from the i386
folder on the Win XP CD, I then expanded them and copied them too all
three of these locations but it still...

Hi Jim

I am assuming you are talking about Windows XP Professional as MSMQ can't be
installed on Windows XP Home.

Windows XP and above won't need the CD for MSMQ.
The initial OS setup copies the files onto the machine ready for you to
install later.
I would expect them to already be in %%windir%%\system32 directory.

Were MQ*.* files anywhere in the machine?

Cheers
John Breakwell (MSFT)

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"John Breakwell (MSFT)" msn.com> wrote in message
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I wonder if the CD is being requested for some other files?

For example, if the original OS install did not specify IIS and now the
MSMQ setup requests HTTP messaging support then IIS will have to be
installed (since IIS is a dependency for HTTP messaging). Perhaps the
CD is being requested so IIS can be installed? Or perhaps so that some
other dependency I haven't thought of can be installed?

I'm not sure but I don't think the IIS files are copied to the machine
if IIS isn't requested during setup?

On 30 May, 06:01, "Frank Boyne" unisys.com> wrote:

With reference to IIS, the following article should apply to Windows XP (IIS
5.1) as well:

How To Perform an Unattended Installation of IIS 6.0
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;309506

"Note Windows always looks for the media that the server was originally
installed from.
If the server was installed from a CD, the unattended installation prompts
you for the Windows CD."

Cheers
John Breakwell (MSFT)

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