My techie husband Bernt Lervik has just written a set of blog posts on how to set up unattended installation of SQL Server 2000, Analysis Services and Reporting Services, and adding the right service pack for each install. Why he wrote it? Because of me. He's fed up with me doing it manually every so often, and decided to show me how it was done. Thanks, honey! Hopefully other people will think it's a great idea too. Not a new idea in the world of infrastructure, but still valid.
The full set of posts starts at:
http://www.eksternkompetanse.no/blog/PermaLink,guid,82fc6d20-8e39-46ff-ba0f-67ba3b77fcdf.aspx
Yeah, I know that SQL Server 2005 is now available, but chances are that SQL Server 2000 won't be completely out of the loop quite yet.
(Oops, before posting this I realized I'd written Unintended instead of unattended. Not sure how relevant that would be.)