How to install and uninstall farm solution through STSADM on SharePoint 2010

We all know to install and uninstall a farm solution through Powershell on SharePoint 2010 is easy, but how to do it through STSADM? That's not as easy as the one on MOSS 2007.

When running the command: "stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs", quite possible you will get the error message:

"The administration service is running so all administration jobs will be run in the timer service"

When running "stsadm -o deletesolution -name SolutionName.wsp -override", it may end up with error message:

"The solution cannot be removed when a job is scheduled or running. SolutionName.wsp: The removal of the solution failed."

It seems we just need to stop the administration service first.  However, if we run:

stsadm -o provisionservice -action stop -servicename SPAdminV4 -servicetype "Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationService, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"

We will get:

"This service is required for most operations, and is not configurable with this command.  Please refer to the online help for the Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationService, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c."

Interesting. So what we can do now? Thanks for the post here SharePoint 2010 & Service Provisioning (by Bryan Porter), it turns out we need to stop the service through "net stop" command.

Below is the full cmd script.

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To install a farm solution and then activate the feature:


@SET STSADM="c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\14\bin\stsadm"


cd C:\theFolderOfTheWspFile
C:


net stop SPAdminV4


%STSADM% -o addsolution -filename .\solutionName.wsp
%STSADM% -o execadmsvcjobs


%STSADM% -o deploysolution -name solutionName.wsp -immediate -allowgacdeployment
%STSADM% -o execadmsvcjobs


%STSADM% -o activatefeature -name solutionName -url http://SiteCollectionUrl
%STSADM% -o execadmsvcjobs


net start SPAdminV4


pause

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To deactivate a featuren and then uninstall the farm solution

@SET STSADM="c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\14\bin\stsadm"

net stop SPAdminV4

%STSADM% -o deactivatefeature -name solutionName -url http://SiteCollectionUrl -force

%STSADM% -o execadmsvcjobs

%STSADM% -o retractsolution -name solutionName.wsp -immediate

%STSADM% -o execadmsvcjobs

%STSADM% -o deletesolution -name solutionName.wsp -override

%STSADM% -o execadmsvcjobs

net start SPAdminV4

pause

Update (07/04/2011):

For workflow related solution and feature, we need to run the code below to refresh the SharePoint object cache.


net stop "SharePoint 2010 Timer"
net start "SharePoint 2010 Timer"