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Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by Ted

Ted — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:31:23 +0000

I have been trying to install SQL 2008 on a Windows 2008 R2 standard server (with SP1) and I get a “incorrect operating system error in the install. I have gone through the documentation for all versions of SQL 2008 and my version of Windows is listed as correct for all SQL versions. Does anyone have any idea what to do next? The OS passes during the initial startup of the install for SQL – but after I add the users and the location for files – the setup runs another check of the OS and that is where it fails.

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by J.D. Wade

J.D. Wade — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:34:17 +0000

So SQL 2008 is supported on Windows 2008 R2 once you get to Service Pack 1 or higher. So I would recommend upgrading to Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2008 since it is the latest service pack. Also, the only versions of SQL Server 2008 currently supported by Microsoft are SQL 2008 Service Pack 2 or higher. Microsoft only supports their server software at the current service pack or the previous service pack (for up to 12 months after the latest service pack is released). So either way, currently you aren’t on a supported version of SQL Server 2008.

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by RO

RO — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:27:24 +0000

What to do when you already have SQL 2008 running on W2K8 R2 without SP1?

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by J.D. Wade

J.D. Wade — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:27:18 +0000

Larry…that is correct. But because you went through the installation to that screen, newer setup files were deployed to your system. You cancel out of the SP1 install when you get to the point where you can’t select anything and then you go back and install SQL normally.

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by Larry Yang

Larry Yang — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:57:42 +0000

In Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (SP1), I tried to install MS SQL Server 2008 SP1 first before installing MS SQL Server 2008, but it can not go through in ‘Feature Selects’;

Because I do not install SQL Server 2008, no any Feature in combox, and can’t make any selection.

Does anyone meet this situation?

Thanks,
-Larry

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Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by J.D. Wade

J.D. Wade — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:23:17 +0000

Rob,

You will continue to get the incompatibilities message. However, this should allow it to install successfully in the cases I have seen.

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by RobD

RobD — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:43 +0000

Absolutely would not work for me. After many,many repeated tries still get the “known incompatibiliies” message.

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by Cees van Altena (@ceesva)

Cees van Altena (@ceesva) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:17:18 +0000

After trying to install first SP1 my SQL 2008 R2 did’nt give me the error “Error reading from file xtfugnej.dll. ” anymore! thnx!

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by sunesh

sunesh — Fri, 20 May 2011 07:28:20 +0000

Excellent…..

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by J.D. Wade

J.D. Wade — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:56:02 +0000

Hi Jaldo,

I haven’t tested it but it should it. Since the fix was introduced in Service Pack 1 and the install process works the same for Service Pack 2, the workaround solution should work fine with Service Pack 2.

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by Jaldo

Jaldo — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:46:15 +0000

Thanks for this awesome Post! Great…

Do this workaround also works with SQL Server 2008 SP2 support files?

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by Eric

Eric — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:23:06 +0000

THANKS A MILLION – I’ve wasted a full day trying to wrap my head around this, was getting:

The following error has occurred:

Error writing to file: Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.dll. Verify that

you have access to that directory.

Click ‘Retry’ to retry the failed action, or click ‘Cancel’ to cancel this action

and continue setup.

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL

+Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=10.0.1600.22&EvtType=0xDF039760%25401201%25401

installed SP1 first, worked like a charm.

Comment on Unable to clean your local free/busy information by Outlook 2007 – Cannot Save Free/Busy Information « The Musings Of SiteGuru

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:44:41 +0000

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Comment on 2nd Stage Recycle Bin Fallacy by Frank

Frank — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:17:11 +0000

Can you clean out the recycle bins using the stsadm? We are having problems getting to Central Administration, we get an ‘Error’ message. Hope you can help.
Thanks

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by GWP

GWP — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:33:14 +0000

Great Post — worked like a charm. One thing that happened for me was that during the install it asked for some files from the extracted SP1. I simply expanded and pointed to those and it worked great.

Comment on Surveys, 3.0/2007, and Excel 2003 by Valli

Valli — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:06:08 +0000

Thanks a lot. This helped.

Comment on Is Your SQL Server Ready for SharePoint 2010? by J.D. Wade

J.D. Wade — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:59:24 +0000

The target of this blog post was just before the release of SharePoint 2010 and to be looking at the capacity of the SQL server. Its target was not the high-end, large scale SQL Server environment that you seem to be describing or configuration optimization of an environment. I was trying to help the part-time SharePoint Administrator who doesn’t really know SQL well and who doesn’t have the time to even check those white papers to inspect some items to make sure they had capacity and were avoiding basic bottlenecks.

Also, I will completely agree that SharePoint can scale well above the 100GB limit. But for the basic administrator, with a multi-user collaborative environment specifically, it makes sense to follow that recommendation.

Comment on Is Your SQL Server Ready for SharePoint 2010? by Someone who knows about SQL Server

Someone who knows about SQL Server — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:57:44 +0000

What a crock!

Don’t mindlessly repeat recommendations if you are not an expert in that field.

You have mindlessly repeated some recommendations from general SQL Server best practices whitepapers…

The 100GB content database limit is COMPLETE RUBBISH!

Can you imagine keeping 25% free disk space on your SAN where you are paying $8000/TB? Ouch!

Perhaps you shold be talking about the need to optimise your tempdb system database as Sharepoint 2010 heavily utilisaed it.

Or perhaps how you should have 6-8GB of memory per core on your SQL Server instance. (8GB of memory for a small server… What a joke!)

These kinds of posts perpetuate bad habits and “myths” about Sharepoint/SQL Server which helps no-one!

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Comment on Unable to clean your local free/busy information by Littlehoilei

Littlehoilei — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:17:46 +0000

Tried all the steps including the recreation of new PST and OST files, but still fails. The error message still pops up when “Cached Exchange Mode” is turned on.

Finally, the issue is solved by adding a macro as follows to keep the Exchange folder opening to Outlook 2007.

“Apply this rule after the message arrives
which is a meeting invitation or update
move a copy to the Deleted Items Folder”

** The “Deleted Items” folder is the one on the Exchange.

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by Endy

Endy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:49:56 +0000

Great post.. thanks for sharing

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by martina

martina — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:02:01 +0000

great, thanks a lot!
Seems to be quite crazy to pay so much for programs that cannot even be installed without problems!

Comment on Unable to clean your local free/busy information by daguccio

daguccio — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:04:33 +0000

I have been through all of these solutions and non of them worked. i thought I would KISS it! Keep it simple silly!

Create a 2nd calendar
copy everything from the original calendar to the 2nd calendar
then delete everything from the 1st calendar
then copy everything from the 2nd to the 1st and delete the 2nd. BAM! Amazing. I am pretty sure it deleted the corrupted files relevent to the error messages.

Hope it works for you!

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by Mark Ford

Mark Ford — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:40:21 +0000

Many thanks indeed for this tip – saved me hours!
Cheers!

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by Kenneth Rytter Jensen

Kenneth Rytter Jensen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:26:45 +0000

Thanks a LOT for this !

I didn’t use a blank 2008 R2 install – I just uninstalled all SQL server programs, installed SP1, and then the SQL server

Works fine

Comment on Data Form Web Part, Web Services, & AAMs…oh my by Amy Grossman

Amy Grossman — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:49:02 +0000

Hi JD,

So what are you supposed to do if you’re working off of a site collection that is hosted through a corporate SharePoint farm (routed through a dual proxy)? I don’t have access at all to the servers. Thanks in advance.

Amy

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Comment on Outlook 2007 BETA and your production Exchange server by Locking Out Outlook 2007 Beta Versions | My SharePoint Support

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Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by Ehsan

Ehsan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:30:17 +0000

You are the man, thanks for the work around as it’s solved issues for my SQL projects

Comment on Unable to clean your local free/busy information by Timothy Frank

Timothy Frank — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:51:52 +0000

I’ve tried all of this … it seems like fishing in the dark. I’ve also poked around dozens of internet sites with hundreds of reports of this problem. I think it is safe to say it’s a bug in the Microsoft Office 2007 & Exchange Server interface that only the guru’s of Outlook at Microsoft will be able to solve. None of your suggestions work except turning off cached exchange mode. I don’t know what turning off cached exchange mode might actually disable … ? Oh well, good luck Microsoft!

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by Charles

Charles — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:06:11 +0000

Thanks very much, I was looking for this solution for a while.

Comment on Problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by ddc

ddc — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:58:46 +0000

awesome finding! that fixed my problem. Thanks.

Comment on SharePoint Road Show: Springfield, IL by DNLee

DNLee — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:18:53 +0000

Hi JD. I came across your blog at the Whitehaven Alumni ning page. I graduated class of 91. I live in St. Louis, too. Check out my blog and shoot me a note some time. Glad to meet another Memphian and Whitehaven Tiger in St. Louis

Comment on Data Form Web Part, Web Services, & AAMs…oh my by J.D. Wade

J.D. Wade — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:46:45 +0000

Awesome, glad you got it working. My second piece of advice about the hosts file would work easily if you were just doing testing on one machine. Multiple machines would be better fixed by using DNS like you did.
JD

Comment on Data Form Web Part, Web Services, & AAMs…oh my by J.D. Wade

J.D. Wade — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:43:35 +0000

Martin,

First, if you are exposing SharePoint to the Internet through a firewall and you are using one name externally (http://outsidename) and a different one internally (http://sharepoint), then you need to follow the advice in this article to properly configure your AAM

Secondly, if you are just trying to do some testing externally and need to use a different IP address to go the URL you are testing, you can temporarily make an entry in your hosts files (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) to map an IP to a name for testing. Just using an IP externally will cause things like Content Query Web Parts to break.
JD

Comment on Data Form Web Part, Web Services, & AAMs…oh my by Martin

Martin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:41:19 +0000

Actually I’ve managed to get round the above problem by using dyndns.com to create a domain name for my IP address.

Comment on Data Form Web Part, Web Services, & AAMs…oh my by Martin

Martin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:14:48 +0000

But how do you do this workaround if your AAM has to be an IP address, as your SharePoint site is being accessed over the internet?

Comment on Data Form Web Part, Web Services, & AAMs…oh my by Stig Stavik

Stig Stavik — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:27:55 +0000

Just to clarify – you need to drop the AAM and create a new site in IIS instead. Then extend your webapp in central admin to point to your newly created IIS-site. (“Use an existing IIS web site” and select it from the dropdown menu)

Comment on Unable to clean your local free/busy information by Serides

Serides — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:02:13 +0000

J.D Wade is right. Manual delete did not solve my issue. Only when I cleared the “Use Cached Exchange Mode”, the message disappeared.

As manual delete did not work for me and I do not want to implement the workaround is there any other solution that I can try?

Comment on Unable to clean your local free/busy information by Filipe

Filipe — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:38:29 +0000

Hi I was wondering if someone could help me?

I have done a migration from one Exchange 2003 server to another exchange 2003 server. the reason for my upgrade was to replace my old exchange server with a newer and better one that we currently had. A couple users reported that their free/busy information was not being published to the exchange server. for example if they change the calendar setting to view someone’s calendar six months ahead of time it doesn’t take. Although in outlook its set to six months it doesn’t reflect…
Does someone have any ideas why I am not able to publish anyone’s calendars a few months into the future?

Comment on WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 August 2009 Cumulative Updates are published by J.D. Wade

J.D. Wade — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:44:06 +0000

Chatted with Rich Finn and Todd Klindt about this on Twitter, as Todd mentioned and I agree:

@ToddKlindt: @JDWade @richfinn That’s a pretty big issue. I’d avoid that CU until they get that hashed out.

Comment on Unable to clean your local free/busy information by Sarbjit Singh

Sarbjit Singh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:16:22 +0000

I tried this with the exact issue and still not able to resolve it.

Will try the manual delete now.

Comment on SharePoint Saturday Ozarks by Karuana Gatimu

Karuana Gatimu — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:08:41 +0000

I really enjoyed your presentations which I got the high level of via the live blog from #SPSOzarks. Great information and thanx for posting the presentation. I also added your blog to my blog roll on my site.

Take care & thanx for all the great stuff!
Karuana

Comment on Surveys, 3.0/2007, and Excel 2003 by J.D. Wade

J.D. Wade — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:37:29 +0000

Tatiana,

Unfortunately, this is a known, unfixed bug and the only work around is to use Excel 2007.

Comment on Surveys, 3.0/2007, and Excel 2003 by Tatiana

Tatiana — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:05:05 +0000

I do not know about Excel 07 since I have to use Excel 03. I have this problem with Excel 03. Is there any solution to solve that problem?

Comment on Unable to clean your local free/busy information by J.D. Wade

J.D. Wade — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:42:16 +0000

I just want to caution on turning off cache mode, you are fundamentally changing the configuration of Outlook and Exchange. You have stopped using the local .OST file and are putting more load on the Exchange server. In my opinion, you are avoiding finding the root cause of your issue and implementing a work around. You might have a corrupt local OST file and need to delete it and let it rebuild.

Comment on Unable to clean your local free/busy information by Darryl Burns

Darryl Burns — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:30:10 +0000

Harsh T’s answer worked for me. I could never get the message about not being to clean free/busy information no matter what I did, until I took his suggestion and cleared the “Use Cached Exchange Mode” checkbox under the Account Setting menu.

Great job! Thanks very much, that message was really starting to tick me off!

Comment on Unable to clean your local free/busy information by Der_Eisenmann

Der_Eisenmann — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:55:49 +0000

Hello,

many thanks for your solution. I solved our problem with 5 mailboxes with your manual. I hope you don´t mind that I did a german translation of your great manual:
http://www.msxforum.de/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9363&post_id=55058#forumpost55058
Again many thanks…you saved my day!!!…;-)

Regards
Der_Eisenmann