November 21, 2005 at 2:54 am
I have had to rebuild my machine and have re-installed SQL server 2000 as usual (I thought). I have reloaded various dabases and all is well. I am now re-installing Sophos which starts by installing MSDE. I get the error: This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator. This happens no matter what I try.
I assume there is some SQL server setting I need to change but I cannot work it out.
November 22, 2005 at 9:44 am
You get the error: "This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator."
Before doing anything I'd talk to the Windows Admins and see if they are applying/updating AD group policy. If this is the case, then they may have to 'tweak' it a bit. We presently are upgrading Win 2K Pro workstations to XP SP2 in our environment and pushing out 'group policy' at the same time. We've also run into some issues as well.
RegardsRudy KomacsarSenior Database Administrator"Ave Caesar! - Morituri te salutamus."
November 22, 2005 at 10:21 am
Dear Rudy.
It is much simpler than that. I AM the administrator (and only user) of a win2000 Adv server box. I have made no changes that I am aware of, to any policies, group or otherwise.
Any advise, or questions of things to check will be much appreciated.
kind regards
November 23, 2005 at 8:57 am
Have you checked the SQL setup log? I think it's sqlstp.log or something like that in your Windows folder. Run setup and then check for recent files and you should see it. This might clue you in.
November 28, 2005 at 10:25 am
I remember the filename now (thanks Steve) ... It's sqlstpx.log where x is a number starting with zero and incremented for each failure.
I also remember an issue with file permissions as well. Have you tried to copy the contents of the installation CD to a disk folder and execute it from there ? If it fails again, you may have to change the permissions on the disk copy and remove the 'read only' attributes from everything.
RegardsRudy KomacsarSenior Database Administrator"Ave Caesar! - Morituri te salutamus."
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