I need SQL Server Express 2014 to be silently (/Q on the command line) installed as part of a WIX bundle. The exe package element downloads the source from Microsoft at run time (http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/A/E/EAE6F7FC-767A-4038-A954-49B8B05D04EB/Express%2064BIT/SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.exe).
But even when I package it locally it still has the same behavior.
When I use the vaguely documented X parameter in the command line it simply extracts the stuff from SQLEXPR_x64_ENU and stops. It never executes the rest of the command line. If I do not provide the X parameter it fails to extract anything and
fails.
This way of bundling has worked for SQL Server 2012, 2008, and 2005 express.
Is there some way to make this work?
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