any installation no-no's?

We are installing MS Win Server 2003 and my old version (7?) of MSDE is not
supported. So I will download MSDE 2000 and install it. I do not have a lot
of experience installing MSDE. I installed it a few times years ago and, with
a few exceptions, it has run just fine since then.
I vaguely remember that I used all the installation defaults with MSDE. That
led to a problem whenever the administrator, or whoever the user was when it
was installed, changed thier password, the connection to the database no
longer worked.
Can anyone suggest a source of information that might be useful to me to
read before I install MSDE 2000?
Thanks for your help, John Brown
John Brown
hi John,
John Brown wrote:
> We are installing MS Win Server 2003 and my old version (7?) of MSDE
> is not supported. So I will download MSDE 2000 and install it. I do
> not have a lot of experience installing MSDE. I installed it a few
> times years ago and, with a few exceptions, it has run just fine
> since then.
> I vaguely remember that I used all the installation defaults with
> MSDE. That led to a problem whenever the administrator, or whoever
> the user was when it was installed, changed thier password, the
> connection to the database no longer worked.
> Can anyone suggest a source of information that might be useful to me
> to read before I install MSDE 2000?
> Thanks for your help, John Brown
modifying the "sa" password was a problem for MSDE 1.0 relating to Windows
account running the SQL Server Agent, but this does not apply to MSDE
2000... and there are not other problems I'm aware of.. but, of course, you
should have a look at the readme file bundled with the installation
package...
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.15.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.60.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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