[DOCS-12609] Docs for SERVER-39025: Windows MSI unattended installation missing mongod.exe with ADDLOCAL Created: 09/Apr/19  Updated: 13/Nov/23  Resolved: 16/Apr/19

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual, Server
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 4.1.10, 4.0.10, Server_Docs_20231030, Server_Docs_20231106, Server_Docs_20231105, Server_Docs_20231113

Type: Task Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Kay Kim (Inactive) Assignee: Kay Kim (Inactive)
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified

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Days since reply: 4 years, 36 weeks, 5 days ago
Epic Link: DOCS: 4.2 Server/Tools

 Description   

Description

Description:

The "Server" feature set should never be used and should be removed from the documentation. The valid two options are "ServerService" and "ServerNoService" depending on if mongod.exe should be installed as a service or not.

Engineering Ticket Description:

The installation tutorial for unattended windows installation: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows-unattended/#install-mdb-edition states:

To install specific MongoDB component sets, you can specify them in the ADDLOCAL argument using a comma-separated list including one or more of the following component sets:

with Server as the component that includes mongod.exe binary.

After downloading mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-ssl-4.0.5-signed.msi, executing this via msiexec:

msiexec /qb /i mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-ssl-4.0.5-signed.msi ADDLOCAL="Server"

Resulting in missing mongod.exe in C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.0\bin

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.0>dir bin
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 544D-E427
 
Directory of C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.0\bin
 
16/01/2019  02:38 PM    <DIR>          .
16/01/2019  02:38 PM    <DIR>          ..
03/04/2018  06:58 PM         2,462,720 libeay32.dll
16/01/2019  02:38 PM               616 mongod.cfg
19/12/2018  07:20 PM       357,355,520 mongod.pdb
03/04/2018  06:58 PM           357,888 ssleay32.dll
               4 File(s)    360,176,744 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  38,985,547,776 bytes free

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 Comments   
Comment by Githook User [ 31/May/19 ]

Author:

{'name': 'Kay Kim', 'email': 'kay.kim@10gen.com', 'username': 'kay-kim'}

Message: DOCS-12609: win .msi unattended install addLocal component
Branch: v4.0
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/d07c97b1e40805daac7b0cc144763704adbb6f68

Comment by Githook User [ 16/Apr/19 ]

Author:

{'email': 'kay.kim@10gen.com', 'name': 'Kay Kim', 'username': 'kay-kim'}

Message: DOCS-12609: win .msi unattended install addLocal component
Branch: v4.0.10
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/c21c591b0260f492047d414be66bcd08faf1cc36

Comment by Githook User [ 16/Apr/19 ]

Author:

{'email': 'kay.kim@10gen.com', 'name': 'Kay Kim', 'username': 'kay-kim'}

Message: Revert "Revert "DOCS-12609: win .msi unattended install addLocal component" – commit was correct, just wrong Docs number in commit message

This reverts commit 9b094ca90df20b4e64741151f7ea0c7de15c1966.
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/3aefdb63933eb6e52d18f1df4a07f90fe89405f6

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