Managing MSDE 2000 - suggestions?

  • Alright, I have MSDE setup in many places in my environment.  Until recently, it has always been MSDE 2000 on Win2K Server.  For whatever reason, I have always (and can still) connect to these MSDE instances using both Analyzer and SEM, even though I have been told I shouldn't be able to.

    Now, I have a new Win2003 server with MSDE 2000 and BizTalk 2004 and I can NOT manage MSDE using Analzyer or SEM.  In fact, I can only connect to MSDE using OSQL directly on the server itself.

    Needless to say, I am a fish out of water.  Does anyone know why I cannot connect to this server with a management tool.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to manage this server?

    I have some SQL / BizTalk issues in the log and it is driving me nuts not to be able to see my DB's, configs, etc.

    Thanks in advance!

    Ryan Hunt

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  • Did you install msde with SP3A on the new server? If so, did you set DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0?

    If you did not set it to 0 (for sp3a) it defaults to 1 then the net-libraries are disabled. 

  • No, the MSDE instance was installed with default params.  Is there a way to set this parameter after install?

  • I found the answer.  C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\SVRNETCN.exe

    This is the server network utilities.  I had to enable Named Pipes and TCP/IP - now I can connect to it. 

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