Slipstreaming easy steps from SQL Server 2012 onwards

On By ADsqlIn SQL Server General

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SQL Server 2008 introduced something that’s called “Slipstream Installation” and it’s exactly what you need – a way for you to deploy a SQL Server instance with all the needed fixes as part of the installation. Let’s take a look how we can do this in both SQL Server 2012.

Prior to SQL 2012, it was bit complicated to perform the slipstreaming and even patches applying seems to be involved full Plan of action as they could had surprise us with failures during apply.

ere is what we should do to slipstream SQL Server 2012 and 2014:

  1. Download SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014 media
  2. Download all the needed SPs, CUs and Hotfixes that you want to “embed”
  3. Put all of the .exe files in one directory
  4. Launch the setup.exe from CMD by issuing the command:Setup.exe /Action=Install /UpdateEnabled=TRUE /UpdateSource=”path_to_the_directroy_where_the_hotfixes_are”

Happy learning..!