Help! Can't install new BES 4.1.4 - SQL error "
Help, I am trying to install BES 4.1.4 on a Windows 2003 SBS server fully patched. I get up to this step:
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9...4052549xd0.png I have downloaded the latest SQL Server Express 2005 and ran it with the default install options, during which everything completed successfully and did not indicate any problems. However I cannot get past this stage. I am really desperate, can anyone help me through here? Thanks! server is "besx_4.1.4.exe" downloaded direct from RIM. |
Take a closer look at your SQL data and backup paths... "MSSQL.1". You sure you are running default instance?
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Is the service SQLSERVER Service started? Can you telnet to SERVER01 at port 1433 and be returned a blank screen with a blinking cursor?
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Yup, SQL 2005 does this; even Std / Ent. editions with the ".1" stuff for the default instance.
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i may well be wrong but my memory is prompting me that i needed the machine name as well as the SQL instance, even locally.
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I am afraid to uninstall/reinstall the SQL server because isn't SQL express used for some SBS2003 native functions? I don't want their server to go down or get its settings screwed up irrevocably because I tried to install the BES. :?
I checked and yes the SQLEXPRESS service is running. I tried stopping and restarting it, and then opening a TELNET session to localhost:1433 and it says "Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port 1433: Connect failed" so I guess that means its not working? I am dying on the vine here guys is there some tutorial or PDF guide I can follow for installing a BES including the prerequisites? |
from a command prompt:
telnet server01 1433 and then press enter The screen should go blank and a blinking cursor will appear if you've connected successfully. |
well I can't telnet to the localhost 1433. It seems like the service is running and I see it in services.msc and task manager. How can I troubleshoot this guys? This customer is getting antsy now. :sad:
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Comparing the screen shots i am guessing the machine is SERVER01, and the SQL instance is SQLEXPRESS, try SERVER01\SQLEXPRESS in the database field, may not work i am no expert but it is ringing very faint bells from my own install a few months ago.
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I might be barking up totally the wrong tree here, but BlackBerry Search Results
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I think that David got it, the default instance of MS SQL Server 2005 Express is called SQLEXPRESS. The name is listed in the Services, also, there are 3 sqlserver.exe's running. If there is only one SQL instance then it should be called SQLEXPRESS. Every instance has a name and they will be listed in the Services screen. Try telnet server01\SQLEXPRESS 1433, and try using that as your DB server in the installation.
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I don't think you can use SQL 2005 Express with 4.1. If I am not mistaking you have to use MSDE or SQL 2000, 2005 not Express.
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And try to point to the server\instance.
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You can run SQL 2005 Express with BES 4.1 other than using SQL Enterprise, 2000, and MSDE.
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Maybe I'm missing something here, but I'm not sure why an extra install of SQL 2005 Express was needed. Any reason that the built-in MSDE 2000 in SBS 2003 wouldn't have done the job? Could that be what's causing the unusual SQL instance path? I'd have expected "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data" myself. The .1, .2 and .3 directories exist, but (on a non SBS server) seem to contain stuff for the OLAP and other new stuff that's part of 2005. |
i am running BES on SQL Express 2005, same box as the BES, and i have the .1 path same as the OP, in the .1 folder i have a MSSQL folder. This is on a standard 2003 server.
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