How can I upgrade editions in quiet mode?

  • I want to upgrade the edition of my deployed instance (at numerous sites) from Express to the Standard or the Enterprise Edition, but I would like to do it in quiet mode. If I run from the command line without the quiet mode switch like this:

    setup.exe INSTANCENAME="MyInstance" SKUUPGRADE=1

    then I can upgrade to another edition just fine.

    However, if I try to run with the quiet switch (/qb), then no matter what other parameters I have added, still it does not upgrade the edition. Is there a special parm (like ADDLOCAL=???) that needs to be included?

    How can I upgrade editions in quiet mode?

  • Hey, Danny ... great question.

    Check out

    http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=852573&SiteID=1

    Your command should look like this:

    start /wait setup.exe ADDLOCAL=SQL_Engine INSTANCENAME="MyInstance" UPGRADE=SQL_Engine SKUUPGRADE=1 /qb

    I haven't seen that "UPGRADE=" parameter in the online help. You might need to include SAPWD="pwd", too.

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