.Net Framework Unattended Install

Automation for Citrix deployments is pretty much old hat at this point, but the 64-bit version is another story. One of the annoying things is that Citrix still uses the 32-bit version of .Net Framework which, of course, is not installed with Windows Server 2003, 64-bit edition.

Why would anyone need .Net 1.1 when 2.0 and 3.0 are available, right? Right.

What's an enterprising administrator to do?

dotnetfx.exe /q:a /c:"install.exe /l /q"

Hat tip to Aaron Stebner.

Well that's... Annoying

You would think that Citrix could automatically adjust the processor metrics on a server if it detects multiple processors during install. I guess that's asking too much.

Context switches/sec appear to be scaled as a total across all processors, but the default threshold isn't adjusted to reflect multiple procs.

Lesson: At the least, multiply the threshold by the number of processors in the server.

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