Re: Wrong MSDE installed

My pleasure. I thought it was funny, too, and it just came to me as I was
typing. And my wife keeps telling me that I'm not funny...HA!

See my reply to David Copeland, coming in a few minutes

Gregg




"kj" <kj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I picked up a new client whose previous IT guy was missing a few letters
in between the "I" and the "T" (namely DIO).

Oh that one made my day!! Thanks Gregg.

If he used the distributable version of MSDE you'll need to hack it out of
there. I'm pretty sure that all SBS needs are supplied by Wmsde which are
only included in the various products. (Montioring, Sharepoint, WSUS).

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/kj
"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello!

I picked up a new client whose previous IT guy was missing a few letters
in between the "I" and the "T" (namely DIO).

They have an SBS 2003 server, no service pack, and several things do not
work, such as SharePoint companyweb, Monitoring, and the setup wizard.
The wizard dies with a blocking error stating, "SQL Server 2000 needs SP3
for Windows Server 2003 compatibility."

I Googled myself into a hole, but did find where to look in the registry
to find what media was used to install MSDE. It has a version of MSDE
that did NOT come with SBS 2003. The idiot who installed the SBS 2003
server installed an application called Total Service, and he installed
the MSDE from the Total Service installation CD instead of using what was
in SBS.

Now the setup wizard will not run for me to re-install monitoring.

How can I figure out what version of MSDE is running? I found a
suggestion to run "select @@version" but it does not tell me **where** to
run it. I am a SQL dunce.

How can I install the proper version of MSDE, and if I do, will it kill
the current version? Or should I recommend a complete rebuild of the
server, since I do not know what else this bright-eyed genius has done?

Thank you for the help!

Gregg Hill





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