Hello,
In the past I have successfully installed SQL Server Express 2017 as a prerequisite, but I was wondering if it is possible to "optionally" install SQL Server Express 2017? The use case would be that they click a button on one of the dialogs and it automatically installs SQL Server Express 2017 onto the target machine with predefined parameters. Currently I have it as a custom action that runs the SQL2017EXPR.exe file with some command line flags but the problem is that it fails out instantly and never actually installs anything. Could I get some assistance with this? My command line arguments are as follows:
/q /IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS /ACTION=install /FEATURES=SQLEngine /INSTANCENAME=TestInstanceName /SECURITYMODE=SQL /SAPWD="testPassword" /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="NT Authority\System" /ADDCURRENTUSERASSQLADMIN=True