Please start any new threads on our new site at https://forums.sqlteam.com. We've got lots of great SQL Server experts to answer whatever question you can come up with.

 All Forums
 General SQL Server Forums
 New to SQL Server Programming
 SQL Install

Author  Topic 

bbchase
Starting Member

1 Post

Posted - 2006-05-09 : 09:28:02
I'm not sure if this is the best place but I cannot install SQL Server 2000 on a new machine running SBS '03 PE. When I double click MSDE.exe on disk four of the install it tells me a strong SA password is needed and something about SAPWD. I have an SA account (maybe it is not setup correctly?). Any ideas why this is happening?

KenW
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

391 Posts

Posted - 2006-05-09 : 10:40:13
Don't just double-click MSDE.exe. It needs command-line parameters to run.

There's an HTML file in the same folder as MSDE.exe. It'll describe the
parameters and tell you which are required.

Ken
Go to Top of Page
   

- Advertisement -