I downloaded the this new CPT, with the intention of replacing the SQL 2005, which currently resided on my Vista Ultimate machine. The following is a brief summary of the issues I experienced.
Unable to find ‘Setup100.exe’
I was experiencing difficulties early in the piece as the install did not appear to be writing to my Program Files folder. I tried “Run as Administrator” and whatever else I could think of to overcome the problem, all to no avail? In the end I decided to reinstall Vista and presto the problem went away.
Version Support
Having successfully installed SQL 2008, I created a test database using the “Server Management Studio” – no problems. When I loaded the “SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio” and tried to access the new database I received the error message “This server version is not supported. Only servers up to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 are supported.” This was apparently a known issue and the solution can be found here.
Remote Access
There is no Surface Area Configuration tool. So I had to figure out a different way to allow Remote access. The answer was found here .
I enabled Named Pipes and TCP/IP and then I was able to access SQL from other machines on the network.