Activate Studio Command-Line Switches
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the activate studio application is used to configure and manage various aspects of activate in some scenarios, you may need to launch activate studio with specific command line switches to perform advanced functions usage activatestudio exe \[/user\ domainname] \[/system] \[/server\ connectionstring] \[/wizard\ xmlvalue] \[/start =//tasks/ ] \[/quit] \[/upgradedb] \[/installpackages] \[/offline] available switches switch description /user\ domainname sets the currentuser context to the specified domain user /system sets the currentuser context to system used primarily for debugging activate /server\ connectionstring connect to a specific activate database using a standard connection string format example server=myactivate\sqlexpress;integrated security=true;connection reset=false;initial catalog=activate; /wizard\ xmlvalue launches a configuration wizard using the specified xml input /start =//tasks/ starts a specific task and submits a job provide the task path in the form of //tasks/ note arguments cannot be parsed via this switch /quit closes activate administrator commonly used after /start to auto exit after task submission /upgradedb forces a database upgrade you will be prompted to confirm before proceeding /installpackages runs the install packages wizard on startup requires administrative privileges; the system will prompt to restart with elevated rights if necessary /offline launches activate studio in offline mode \ prevents extended schema from loading on startup \ sets currentuser to the provisioning system user \ allows access to activate sql database objects even when the activate server cannot be contacted \ ldap/active directory connections are not available until a restart