Unattended install of the Exchange 5.5 Admin tool

Hi,
Has anybody managed to do this? The .ini files which come with Exchange 5.5
are straightforward enough and are self documenting. I've removed
everything (set to FALSE) other than the Admin tool but get an error message
telling me "Account information is incorrect". Then I get a dialog which
seems to want the service a/c and password. These shouldn't be required for
an installation of the admin tool.

Does anybody remember this problem?

Thanks

Rob

Mark
Sat Apr 08 12:51:22 CDT 2006

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 09:32:50 +0100, "Rob Godfrey"
<rob_godfrey@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>Has anybody managed to do this? The .ini files which come with Exchange 5.5
>are straightforward enough and are self documenting. I've removed
>everything (set to FALSE) other than the Admin tool but get an error message
>telling me "Account information is incorrect". Then I get a dialog which
>seems to want the service a/c and password. These shouldn't be required for
>an installation of the admin tool.
>
>Does anybody remember this problem?
>
>Thanks
>
>Rob
>

Yes, I'm sure loads of us did this around 10 years ago. It's going to
take some time to dig up information that old.

Any reason you are spending your time on this rather than doing it on
a local machine or remote controlling a box and doing the install?
Seems one hell of an effort to go to.

Rob
Sun Apr 09 13:08:12 CDT 2006

Hi Mark,

We're trying to standardise our engineers PC builds so they all have the
same tools automaticaly installed localy and move away from RDP or similar.
We've got many sites and the theory is if the tools are localy installed
(automaticaly if the user is in the 'enterprise engineers' group) they can
work quickly against local servers without the need to maintain tool kits on
servers at all major sites. For better or worse it's the route we've gone...

Any information anybody can dig up would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Rob

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <mark@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:futf32lh8cpf4i4p3o76b1vn8iklvh7q1u@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 09:32:50 +0100, "Rob Godfrey"
> <rob_godfrey@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>Has anybody managed to do this? The .ini files which come with Exchange
>>5.5
>>are straightforward enough and are self documenting. I've removed
>>everything (set to FALSE) other than the Admin tool but get an error
>>message
>>telling me "Account information is incorrect". Then I get a dialog which
>>seems to want the service a/c and password. These shouldn't be required
>>for
>>an installation of the admin tool.
>>
>>Does anybody remember this problem?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Rob
>>
>
> Yes, I'm sure loads of us did this around 10 years ago. It's going to
> take some time to dig up information that old.
>
> Any reason you are spending your time on this rather than doing it on
> a local machine or remote controlling a box and doing the install?
> Seems one hell of an effort to go to.