when using this command to do a silent install of SQL Server Express 2008 on my XP machine,
setup100.exe /quiet /ACTION=install /FEATURES=SQL /INSTANCENAME=REMOTEVIEW2
/SECURITYMODE=SQL /SAPWD="sensor123$" SQLSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /AGTSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM"
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: The following is an exception stack listing the exceptions in outermost to innermost order
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: Inner exceptions are being indented
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp:
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: Exception type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.InputSettingValidationException
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: Message:
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: The specified value for setting 'SAPWD' is invalid. The expected value type is SqlSecureString.
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: Stack:
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.InputSettingService.SaveInputSettingValueToObjectSqlSecureString(String settingName, Object hostingObject, PropertyInfo propertyInfo, Type propertyType, String[] stringValues)
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.InputSettingService.SaveInputSettingValueToObject(InputSettingInfo inputSettingInfo, List`1 values)
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.InputSettingService.SaveParsedArgumentsIntoInputSettingStore(InputSettingSource source, Dictionary`2 parsedArguments, Boolean chainerSetting)
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.InputSettingService.ProcessCommandLineArguments(String[] commandLineArguments, Boolean chainerSetting)
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.BootstrapExtension.ProcessFeatureCommandLineArgumentsAction.ExecuteAction(String actionId)
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.Action.Execute(String actionId, TextWriter errorStream)
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.InvokeAction(WorkflowObject metabase, TextWriter statusStream)
04/17/2008 12:17:00 Slp: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.PendingActions.InvokeActions(WorkflowObject metaDb, TextWriter loggingStream)
I have searched this forum and my SQL SERVER 2005 book by Wrox and have not found the information to get around this issue.
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