sql server msde: I try to install MSDE using the sapwd switch. During the 'Please wait while
Windows configures Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine' process an error pops
up stating:

Setup failed to configure the server. Refer to the server error logs and
setup error logs for more information.

I searched high and low for installation logs and the event viewer on my

hi,
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as you can see from
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;816499&Product=sql,
the most relevant cause of this exception is due to uncomplete
installation(s) of other MSDE instances...
if you are not involved in this problem, it recently appears due to MDAC
stack corruptions...
if you have WinXP sp2 installed you can not fix it by applying the higher
MDAC stack (http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/mdac/downloads/default.aspx)
becouse no refresh is available for that MDAC sp level, but you can fix MDAC
as reported in http://www.macropool.com/en/download/mdac_xp_sp2.html...
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Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtm http://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.16.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.61.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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add certificate