installing on sbs2003 (DC)

root · Post by **root** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:38 am

i have been using the vault on my xp pro machine for about a month now and everything works great.

I just built a new small biz 2003 server, with mostly default options, which included MSDE. I know MSDE is running because I am using the sharepoint site and it works.

then attempted to install the vault server, and it was saying SQL server was not running or was not available (i used NT/machine authentication) Do I have to install a separate instance of MSDE to talk to the vault server?

(sorry for noob level question, I really don't deal with sql all that often)

Post by **jclausius** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:15 am

Installing Vault on a Small Business Server should be OK. However, there are some "gotchas" if you want to use other features of Valut ( like Shadow Folders ). In these cases, you'll need to create a Windows account dedicated to running the Application Pool. You can find Shadow Folder information in our Knowledge Base.

Also, you mentioned Sharepoint. Unfortunately, Sharepoint doesn't play nice and modifies some of the configuration of the web site it is installed. Due to these problems, I would recommend creating a brand new web site dedicated to Vault ( or other ASP.Net apps ), and keep this away from Sharepoint.

HTH

root · Post by **root** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:20 pm

ah, thx. I did notice there are a few entries in the FAQ's related to sbs 03, and I was gonna deal with them afterwards, including creating a separate site (now that I know)

In the meantime, I can't get around the "can't see SQL server" issue... any ideas on that?

Post by **jclausius** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:03 pm

What are you using for the host name within the Vault installation?

Is it possible MSDE is running under a named instance?

Try these three commands from a prompt:

1) net start > c:\services.txt
2) find "MS" c:\services.txt
3) del c:\services.txt

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In step 2, what are the results?