{"id":2263,"date":"2007-07-07T14:25:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T14:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2007\/07\/07\/orcas-unattended-installation-of-the-build-agent\/"},"modified":"2007-07-07T14:25:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T14:25:21","slug":"orcas-unattended-installation-of-the-build-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/orcas-unattended-installation-of-the-build-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Orcas:  Unattended installation of the build agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can install the build agent (aka Build SKU) without going through the setup UI if you do the following.&nbsp; Thanks to Tony Edwards for this information.<\/p>\n<p>Edit the msiproperty.ini. &nbsp;&nbsp;Note that as of Beta 2, the ones that are in there are bogus and are not used.&nbsp; You have to add two new ones.&nbsp; This will be fixed before the release of TFS 2008. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> VSTF_LOCAL_DOMAIN=<em>corpdomain<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>VSTF_LOCAL_USERID=<em>someaccount<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you then run setup silently, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> setup \/q<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>all of the chained installers get invoked silently and the install succeeds. <\/p>\n<p>Unattended installation is also supported for Team Explorer.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not supported at the moment for the TFS server setup.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ce218d0b-5176-4f35-a0d3-203c4846cc7d\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/tfs\" rel=\"tag\">tfs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/team%20foundation\" rel=\"tag\">team foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/team%20build\" rel=\"tag\">team build<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/setup\" rel=\"tag\">setup<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can install the build agent (aka Build SKU) without going through the setup UI if you do the following.&nbsp; Thanks to Tony Edwards for this information. Edit the msiproperty.ini. &nbsp;&nbsp;Note that as of Beta 2, the ones that are in there are bogus and are not used.&nbsp; You have to add two new ones.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-team-build","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>You can install the build agent (aka Build SKU) without going through the setup UI if you do the following.&nbsp; Thanks to Tony Edwards for this information. Edit the msiproperty.ini. &nbsp;&nbsp;Note that as of Beta 2, the ones that are in there are bogus and are not used.&nbsp; You have to add two new ones.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}