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I want to enable the Recovery Console on a lot of Windows 2003 servers. I want to automate this so I don't have to manually do it on hundreds of servers.

The recovery console install process seems to require human interaction in the form of clicking options in a wizard.

Is there a way of silently installing the recovery console so I can write a script or is this going to be a manual job?

How to install recovery console

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I found the switches. 

winnt32.exe /cmdcons /unattend /dudisable

I used PSEXEC in a batch files that connects to each host, then I mapped a network drive that contains the i386 folder and ran the silent setup.

here is the batch file 

net use w: "\\server\I386"` /Persistent:no`
W:
winnt32.exe /cmdcons /unattend /dudisable
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