Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/27/06 07:46

(theintrepidfox@hotmail.com) writes:
> Wondered if any of you has any suggestion for the following?
> Trying to install SQL Server 2005 Eval on a 'clean' machine. Well, my
> mistake was probably that I had installed Visual Studio 2005
> Professional Eval before which installed an MSSQL Express instance.
> Since then I didn't get 'Enterprise Manager' (excuse my ignorance, I
> know it's called differently in2005 but it's late and I'm tired) for
> MSSQL 2005 installed.Don't remember the error exactly but after some
> trying I received some error during the MSSQL Management Studio (is
> that right?) installation that it needs to be upgraded in some ini file
> which I looked for to no avail. ANYWAY, after some desperate registry
> deletes and following MS Kbase articles I arrived at: 'The installer
> has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may
> indicate a problem with the package. The error code is 2718.' during
> the installation of SQL Server Backward-Compatibility files.
> Which is of course complete rubbish. We all now that Microsoft has done
> an awful job in getting SQL Express and SQL Server installed
> side-by-side but it never has been as bad as this on any machine
> before. Needless to say the package is fine as I've used it many times
> before. Any suggestions?

It's very unclear what you have done, after messing with the registry your
machine may be beyond repair. Or may at least require a complete uninstall
of VS and SQL Server and back again.

But if you already had SQL Server Management Studio Express installed,
that may be the root of your problem, as you cannot have both SSMS Express
and the big SSMS installed side by side.


--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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