msde setup failes with request for strong sapwd
how can i mannage it?

thanks

hi Sam,
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you have to provide the required sa password as a parameter, like
c:\..\>setup.exe ...other_params... SAPWD="your_password" ...other_params...
please have a look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/distsql/distsql_84xl.asp
for all supported parameters..
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