Getting ready

In the Installing DPM recipe in this chapter, we showed you how to install DPM using a local SQL Server and using a remote SQL Server. However, this was a manual installation. 

Automating the installation of DPM consists of two steps:

1. Installing the SQL Server instance
2. Installing the DPM server

You can disregard the first step if you already have SQL Server deployed locally or on a remote server in your environment.

In this recipe, we will cover the installation of SQL Server and DPM in an automated fashion.