Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations strongm on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Problem Installing MSDE 1

Status
Not open for further replies.

Mikeauz

Technical User
Jul 23, 2002
75
AU
Hi,

I'm trying to start using MSDE and adp projects instead of just access 2000 and having some trouble installing MSDE.

It stops during installation saying "SA Password isn't strong" which I assumed meant my pcs local Administrator password, so I followed the guidelines on strong passwords and tried again but to no affect.

Am I trying to use this for the wrong thing? I'm hoping MSDE is a sql db that can be run from your desktop rather than a dedicated sql server.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Mike
 
Get to a command prompt and change directories to the directory with the MSDE setup file in it. At the command prompt type setup.exe SAPWD=xxxxxx where the x's are your new password. I had the same problem this morning and found this site


But when I went to it just now, it was down.

Good Luck
 
Bless you spaulding, this is brillant, been stuck on this for a few months!!!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top