Over the last 5 years I have literally installed DotNetNuke hundreds of times on my local development machines.  During this time installation has gotten easier, but it still takes a few minutes and is still subject to mistakes being made.  Also, because there are several steps involved, I often take shortcuts.  This is ok when I am just throwing up development instances, but it is counterproductive when I am trying to do actual testing of a beta or release candidate.

Last fall I started building a series of PowerShell scripts for simplifying the process.  Although there are installers available for DotNetNuke, they...