Can't install SQL Server 2005 Standard on Windows Server 2003

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SQL Server 2005 Setup has detected incompatible components from beta
versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, or SQL Server 2005.
(Full text of dialog below.)
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Well, thanks guys, for narrowing it down for me with such precision. :-\
Yes, I did have Beta components installed at one point, but I've removed
them all. I've looked through Add/Remove Programs and I don't see any Beta
products left to uninstall. How can I find out what exactly is blocking my
install?
Thanks for your help!
- Joe Geretz -
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup
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SQL Server 2005 Setup has detected incompatible components from beta
versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, or SQL Server 2005. Use Add or
Remove Programs to remove these components, and then run SQL Server 2005
Setup again. For detailed instructions on uninstalling SQL Server 2005, see
the SQL Server 2005 Readme.
For help, click:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?Link...rform%400x11190
BUTTONS:
OK
--OK, I found it.
It was the SQL Server Setup Support Files, must have been left over form a
previous Beta install. Tricky, because it wasn't titled as Beta in the Add /
Remove Programs listing.
- Joe Geretz -
"Joseph Geretz" <jgeretz@.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> SQL Server 2005 Setup has detected incompatible components from beta
> versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, or SQL Server 2005.
> (Full text of dialog below.)
> --
> Well, thanks guys, for narrowing it down for me with such precision. :-\
> Yes, I did have Beta components installed at one point, but I've removed
> them all. I've looked through Add/Remove Programs and I don't see any Beta
> products left to uninstall. How can I find out what exactly is blocking my
> install?
> Thanks for your help!
> - Joe Geretz -
> TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup
> --
> SQL Server 2005 Setup has detected incompatible components from beta
> versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, or SQL Server 2005. Use Add or
> Remove Programs to remove these components, and then run SQL Server 2005
> Setup again. For detailed instructions on uninstalling SQL Server 2005,
> see the SQL Server 2005 Readme.
>
> For help, click:
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?Link...rform%400x11190
> --
> BUTTONS:
> OK
> --
>

Can't Install Express because .Net Framework 2 is installed! I'm going around in circles.

I'm new to SQL Express and from the SQL Express DOWNLOAD page you need to install .NET Framework 2 then install SQL Express. After installing .NET Framework 2.0 I then attempt to install SQL Express and I get a message that SQL Server 2005 Setup has detected incompatible components from beta versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework or SQL Server 2005. I used the Visual Studio removal tool and it took out .NET Framwork. I re-installed this and did a reboot and get the SAME ISSUE! CAN ANYONE GET ME OUT OF THIS MS loop nightmare.

Thanks! Jeff

Make sure that you uninstalled any beta-versions of SQLServer 2005 / VS / The Framework and other beta products that might have shipped the .NET 2.0 beta along with them. THen run the removal tool. THis should clean out every reference to the assemblies and evidences.

HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer.

http://www.sqlserver2005.de|||Thanks Jens but this is a clean Win Pro 2K wkstation that NEVER had any of these products, BETA or live installed. When I ran the removal tool it took .NET 2 off and I tried to the SQL xpress install and it wanted .NET 2K. Could the site that I downloaded it from have been BETA? I would guess not as I saw no reference to it and it was a link right off the SQL Express site that mentioned I needed this first anyway. I'm still baffled. I also looked at a full SQL Server 2005 disk from MS and it also wanted the same .NET 2 loaded before an install. I only need SQL Express for the app. I'm running. Thanks Jeff|||

This issue has been answered several times in this forum. Check out my answer to this post for example.

Mike

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Thanks Mike for some direction. Again this was a clean O/S and I was simply following the instructions on the SQL Express page with no luck. I looked at the logs as you suggested and saw no real issue. Here is the summary. I looked at each log file and do not see what is causing the fuss other than an additiona of .42 to the end of the version of .NET. So I uninstalled .NET again and re-downloaded it from the same site and re-installed it and behold all is well.

Loaded DLL:C:\WINNT\system32\msi.dll Version:3.1.4000.2435
Product "{44568A1C-53F6-49A5-A163-CD9ADC0F76D5}" versioned 2.0.50727 is not compatible with current builds of SQL Server.Expected at least version: 2.0.50727.42

Why the old version is still floating on the links to SQL Express is yet another MS mystery to solve, GFL. I really did search the forum and did not see any answers to this.Thanks again, your log viewing saved the day! Jeff

Can't Install Express because .Net Framework 2 is installed! I'm going around in circles.

I'm new to SQL Express and from the SQL Express DOWNLOAD page you need to install .NET Framework 2 then install SQL Express. After installing .NET Framework 2.0 I then attempt to install SQL Express and I get a message that SQL Server 2005 Setup has detected incompatible components from beta versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework or SQL Server 2005. I used the Visual Studio removal tool and it took out .NET Framwork. I re-installed this and did a reboot and get the SAME ISSUE! CAN ANYONE GET ME OUT OF THIS MS loop nightmare.

Thanks! Jeff

Make sure that you uninstalled any beta-versions of SQLServer 2005 / VS / The Framework and other beta products that might have shipped the .NET 2.0 beta along with them. THen run the removal tool. THis should clean out every reference to the assemblies and evidences.

HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer.

http://www.sqlserver2005.de|||Thanks Jens but this is a clean Win Pro 2K wkstation that NEVER had any of these products, BETA or live installed. When I ran the removal tool it took .NET 2 off and I tried to the SQL xpress install and it wanted .NET 2K. Could the site that I downloaded it from have been BETA? I would guess not as I saw no reference to it and it was a link right off the SQL Express site that mentioned I needed this first anyway. I'm still baffled. I also looked at a full SQL Server 2005 disk from MS and it also wanted the same .NET 2 loaded before an install. I only need SQL Express for the app. I'm running. Thanks Jeff|||

This issue has been answered several times in this forum. Check out my answer to this post for example.

Mike

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Thanks Mike for some direction. Again this was a clean O/S and I was simply following the instructions on the SQL Express page with no luck. I looked at the logs as you suggested and saw no real issue. Here is the summary. I looked at each log file and do not see what is causing the fuss other than an additiona of .42 to the end of the version of .NET. So I uninstalled .NET again and re-downloaded it from the same site and re-installed it and behold all is well.

Loaded DLL:C:\WINNT\system32\msi.dll Version:3.1.4000.2435
Product "{44568A1C-53F6-49A5-A163-CD9ADC0F76D5}" versioned 2.0.50727 is not compatible with current builds of SQL Server.Expected at least version: 2.0.50727.42

Why the old version is still floating on the links to SQL Express is yet another MS mystery to solve, GFL. I really did search the forum and did not see any answers to this.Thanks again, your log viewing saved the day! Jeff

Cant get SQL Server 2005 to work

Hello ia m trying to install SQL Server 2005 but i am unable to run it. I installed Net Framework 2.0
Then i have tried the following files:
SQLEXPR.EXE
SQLEXPR_ADV.EXE
Then i installed Service PAck 1 for that but an error occoured during the install.

Basiclly i have no idea what i am doing here. It creates a configuration tools start menu item but it seems just like configuration. In C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\MSSQL\Binn there is a file called sqlservr.exe but all it does is create a black console window and does nothing.

OS: XP Pro + SP2

How to get it to work?

Thank You

SQLEXPR.EXE is the installer for the edition SQL Express. SQLEXPR_ADV.exe is the installer for SQL Express Advanced. So if you ran both installers, you will now have two different editions on your machine. SQL Express Advanced comes with the option of installing Management Studio Express, a set of client tools available to view/edit/manage your database on your machine (or on remote machines). I'd suggest going through the Getting Started section of Books Online (the SQL documentation) for some suggested exercises.

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)

|||Thank You for Your reply.
I did not install them at the same time, i tried them both. I could not find the exe file to run the program. Is there such a thing. Ill read the getting started section also.|||

Which one did you fully install? If you installed Express, then it has no client tools (I think that's what you are searching for). If you installed Express Advanced, you have the option of installing Management Studio Express. Once this is installed, it will launch the UI-based tool that will allow you to browse through your instance.

Thanks,
Sam