The SQL Server Browser service is running.

I am using Windows Authenication to try to login to the SSEE instance. My account in AD says I have full Domain Admin and...

Thank you for the tips. I was successfully able to run he MSP file, so I think it found the MSI file and install the client components.

To clean up old...

Could I use the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility to remove old SQL install files? Do I select the MS SQL Server Setup Support Files in the utility to do this?

One final question: Why the descrepency?

select @@version says SP2

select serverproperty('ProductLevel') says SP3

Which one to believe?

Thanks.

select @@version produces:

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.4053.00 (X64) May 26 2009 14:13:01 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT...

Hi,

I have the modules installed correctly from SP3 now. However, SQL Server still says it is at SP2. Do I need to run SP3 again to have SQL Server show...

Hi,

I extracted the sqlncli.msi out of the SP3 package and copied and renamed the file to the c:Windows\Installer folder. Renamed the file to 18cecb4.msi. Ran the sqlncli.msi from another folder....

What I did was use Windows Installer Cleanup Tool and the SQL Server Install program to remove Express from the server. I have not tried the SP3 upgrade, yet.

Hi,

Current version of Backup Exec on the server is 12 rev 1364?

Do you know what version Backup Exec is in the SP3? I can run updates for Symantec Backup...

Does this apply to SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition on 64-bit servers? You post mentions fixing the SQL Server Express edition. Sorry for not making this clear in my post.

Hi,

Sorry, I don't have that file in the c:\windows\Installer folder.

I copied the SP3 install program to the local drive and ran it from there. I logged in with my full admin rights. The server has been rebooted twice.

I was...

I looked in that log file, as well as the others, but can't find what and where it fails. I don't really understand what the log says.

Here is the...

Thank you for your help. This is from the SP3 Summary.txt file. I included all products that had the error duuring the install:

Product ...

Thanks for the advice. I will install SP3 myself.

For looking at the log files, I see these folders:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\Log\Hotfix

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\Log\Files

However, I see in the...