thanks Markus,

As best practises says 'stop all the services before installing an instance'. So what is the reason to start only sql browser service?

could you please explain me this..

thanks

Madhu

hi Markus,

the local domain policy on each node same. But still Iam getting the error.

One more question 'do we need to stop the browser service or not while installing the...

Hi, here is my erro log.

could you plz tell me what will be the reason to fail the setup.

is there any special attention to take while installing 2nd failover instance?

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In surface are configuration the remote connections are enabled.

I went through forum http://sql-server-performance.com/Community/forums/t/2677.aspx

I noticed that this the default behavior of SQL Server 2005. You can change this by using the Surface Area Configuration...

Thanks Manu I got it..My .netframework 2 is got corrupted,Ijust repaired it and its worked

And Iam aslo observed that in the insatallation some differrence on the 2 nodes. When the error 'windows policy issue' occured, I canceled the setup,while this I observed the...

Is that correct that the sql server 2005 does not support mount points in clustering?

H Adam,

could you please answer this question.

We created like 3 groups SQLA,SQLB,SQLC and each group has drives in it.Say SQLA has A,B,C drives. When Iam trying install 4th failover cluster...

thanks Adam

so there is no need to install the failover instance on all the nodes?

Iam getting the error at the end of the setup wizard

thanks Manu,

In my case the evaluation edition gets upgraded to Enterprise edition though Iam getting the Password policy error. we are using windows authentication. Do we need to change SA...

the D drive is on SAN and we implementing Active/Passive/Active clustering

hi,

I upgrading from evaluation edition of sql server 2005 to enterprise edition in a clustered environment. I read one article http://deepakrangarajan.blogspot.com/2007/09/upgrading-evaluation-to-enterprise.html. My question is can we do this...