Hi Luke,

Q1. Yes production is part of a domain....but i've not gone near that yet. No the test box is not even on a network much less

a domain.

Q2. Is there is only one user on the test server, it must (??) be the administrator. On the domain...hmmmm.....not entirly sure tbh

as i have inherited this......I can only assume it to be domain or Server admin....how would I know for sure ? (forgive me...pure unix head)

Q3. Test server not on netweork...so local admin. On domain....again not entirely sure....I assume it is the local admin.

Q4. Downloaded from MS website as well as the Management Studio.

Q5. Yes.

Q6. Nope.

Q7. Tried without installing the management tool and still same error.

Cheers Luke.

Hi Andrew,

Yes I see your point although my reasons for installing and then upgrading is that I would have to do this in a production

environment where the Express Edition is already installed. Makes more sense to me to test this first on a dev server before upsetting the Boss man.

Many thanks.

rgds,

Jay