Re: SBS2003 Sharepoint/Monitoring MSDE / McAfee Protection Pilot SBS

From: Mariette Knap [SBS MVP] (mariette_at_smallbizserver.local)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:12:14 +0100

In news:3E528401-F35E-4D9F-B011-40B8942A1425@microsoft.com,
Dean <dblake@bitsincusa.com> wrote:

> I am performing a new install of SBS2003 Premium. I need to move the
> SharePoint and SBS Monitoring database from the MSDE to SQL Server
> becuase
> I am attempting to install McAfee ProtectionPilot on my SBS.
> According to McAfee support I must deinstall all instances of MSDE
> since the ePolicy Orchistrate database instance was created in the
> SQL Server 2000 database and there is no method to change the
> connection string for the ProtectionPilot agent server.
>
> I deinstalled SharePoint and SBS Monitoring and attempted to
> reinstall them, hoping to have the option of specifing SQL Server. I
> do not see in the installation process for either SharePoint or
> Monitoring where I can specified the database to use.

Once installed you can upgrade the Sharepoint MSDE to a full SQL database.
You cannot upgrade the SBS monitoring database.

Can you give me the connection string of this McAfee stuff? I wonder if
there is a smarter solution to this. 

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