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Installation of Non-MS Fonts cause .NET errors during SQL server 2005 setup

Setup is ideally supposed to be an easy process, but more often than not we are fraught with a multitude of errors. This blog is intended to make life a little easier when it comes to SQL server setup. When we run SQL 2005 setup we get the following error: Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:55 AM by AmruthaVarshiniJ | 2 Comments
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Unable to install SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition on a Windows VISTA machine

The error message we get is as below, <Error Message> 02/04/2009 14:33:20.418 02/04/2009 14:33:20.419 Setup launched 02/04/2009 14:33:20.420 Attempting to determine media source 02/04/2009 14:33:20.421 Media source value not specified on command Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:50 PM by sanjayap | 1 Comments
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INFORMATIONAL: Understanding and Troubleshooting MSP Error: 29512 SQL Server Setup was unable add user <Domain\Username>, when you try to install SQL Server 2005

Good morning Folks! Today I will take you through a setup issue that many of you might have run into when trying to install SQL Server 2005 (especially on a cluster). I’ve tried to list down all possible solutions to the following errors one faces while Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:55 AM by sanjayap | 0 Comments

Installing Hotfix on SQL Server may throw error 29538 and fail

In this case we were installing hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=960089 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Hotfix 3077 The Hotfix Setup would rollback. You will see the below error in the Hotfix.log file 06/24/2009 16:15:38.994 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:26 PM by sanjayap | 0 Comments

SQL Server 2005 SP2 installation hangs on a 2 Node cluster with the message: "Awaiting first complete passive cluster node"

Environment: SQL Server Enterprise Edition 2005 32 bit on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP1 Consider a scenario where you are installing SQL Server 2005 Servce Pack 2 on a clustered environment. Sometimes you will notice that the installation get hung Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:04 PM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

SQL Server 2005 SP2 setup might fail with the error Error 29528: The setup has encountered an unexpected error while Updating security settings on HTTP services

Few days back I worked on a case where the sql server SP2 setup was failing to install with an Error 29528 so I thought I should blog this article to address the cause of the failure and how can we resolve the issue. Problem Description: You may see the Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:12 PM by Pariks | 2 Comments

SQL Server 2008 Setup fails to Install with Error 1402

SQL Server 2008 setup may fail with the following error even though you are running the setup as administrator. You might get these kind of errors in Detail.txt after you cleaned up an failed setup (from Add/Remove Programs) and try to run the setup again. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:34 AM by Pariks | 2 Comments
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SQL Server 2005 Setup Failing to Install on Cluster when we use an underscore in the virtual cluster name

Setup is always known to have a mind of its own; this blog is meant to demystify this process. We are specifically talking about SQL Server 2005 Setup on a cluster. It has been observed that the installation of the SQL server 2005 instance on the cluster Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:53 PM by Pariks | 1 Comments
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Part – 1 : SQL Server 2005 Patch Fails to install with an error "Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file"

We have seen several issues where installation of Service Pack/Hotfix/GDR/CU fails to install on one or more components of SQL Server 2005. In this blog , I have tried to include few troubleshooting tips and tricks for these kinds of installation failures. Read More...
Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 8:36 PM by sanjayap | 17 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Setup Failing to Install on Cluster with Unexpected Failure while Performing the SCC checks

We have observed a number of cases where the installation of the SQL server 2005 instance on the cluster fails with the following unexpected Failure Error Message while performing SCC checks. ERROR MESSAGE: ==================== There is unexpected failure. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:01 AM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

Did you know... Error: 29565 SQL Server Setup cannot upgrade the specified instance because the previous upgrade did not complete

We have observed a number of cases where the installation of SP2 succeeds on Active Node while it may fail on the passive node while installing SP2 on the clustered instance of SQL server 2005. In order to find the cause of the failure on passive node Read More...
Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 5:07 PM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

Facts about How SQL Server 2008 setup works... #3

Setup.exe can be patched dynamically on the fly One of the drawbacks of the sql server 2005 setup was that if there was any bug detected in the code of the setup.exe , the patching of the setup.exe was difficult and at times next to impossible. With Katmai, Read More...
Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 1:25 PM by sanjayap | 2 Comments

Facts about How SQL Server 2008 setup works... #2

Salient Features of Sql Server 2008 (Katmai) Setup Minimize the MSI code for setup and use MSI code for what it does the best. In Sql 2005 entire setup process was coded using MSI code which uses the Windows Installer code and was found to be root cause Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 21, 2008 6:33 PM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

Facts about how SQL Server 2008 setup works...

In order to install, upgrade, uninstall, and patch the sql server 2008 instance on the system we need to call the setup.exe from the installation media. The setup.exe is an unmanaged code which checks the basic pre-requisites to launch the actual Setup Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:11 AM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

Error 11032 Unable to install Windows Installer MSP while installing security patch KB 948109 on SQL 2005 instance

While installing security patch KB 948109 on SQL Server 2005, the installation of the patch may fail. In order to find the cause of the failure we need to look into the setup bootstrap logs which are located in the following location, C:\Progarm Files\Microsoft Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 31, 2008 2:36 PM by sanjayap | 1 Comments
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