Friday, March 30, 2012

Installing named instance with sample.msi

I need to install a named instance of the Desktop Engine, so I followed the directions at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/distsql/distsql_74qd.asp
which has instructions on using Orca to modify sample.msi. I also followed the instructions found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/distsql/distsql_8yeq.asp
on how to edit the msi file to create a named instance.
YET, when used, this altered msi installs a DEFAULT instance.
Am I missing something? If so, what?

Thanks for any help,
Allan Sorenson
Crossroads technologyOriginally posted by B1ueboy
I need to install a named instance of the Desktop Engine, so I followed the directions at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/distsql/distsql_74qd.asp
which has instructions on using Orca to modify sample.msi. I also followed the instructions found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/distsql/distsql_8yeq.asp
on how to edit the msi file to create a named instance.
YET, when used, this altered msi installs a DEFAULT instance.
Am I missing something? If so, what?

Thanks for any help,
Allan Sorenson
Crossroads technology

A little more info on the last edit:
Using Orca I added the row named 'SqlInstanceName' with the desired instance name as the value to the 'Property' table.

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