Error Installing SQL 2008 SP1 on Windows 7

You are required to install Microsoft SQL 2008 SP1 after installing SQL 2008 on Windows 2008 and 7. After launching the SP1 setup you might receive the following error:
TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure.
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SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error:
Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created..
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BUTTONS:
OK
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Posted Under: Microsoft
This post was written by stephen on October 21, 2009 Comments (0)

SCOM 2007 R2 MOM Agent Activation context generation failed

I came across the following errors today on the server I’m trying to push the SCOM MOM Agent to a Windows 2008 server:
Log Name: Application
Source: SideBySide
Date: 10/15/2009 9:29:04 AM
Event ID: [...]

Posted Under: Microsoft, SCOM
This post was written by stephen on October 15, 2009 Comments (0)

Running OpsMgr 2007 R2 DBCreateWizard on 64-bit SQL Server

There is an issue when running the R2 64-bit DBCreateWizard on an SQL server. You may come accross the following error during the DB create process:

Additionally you may see the following in the application log:
Log Name: Application
Source: Bid
Date: 10/14/2009 2:09:38 PM
Event ID: 1
Task Category: None
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: USHUBSPSQL01.Exterran.pvt
Description:
C:\ISO\OpsMgr 2007 R2\DBCreateWizard.exe
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This post was written by stephen on October 14, 2009 Comments (0)

How to Install Systems Center Capacity Planner on Windows 7

Had an issue installing Systems Center Capacity Planner on Windows 7 today… it would not. It kept prompting me with a blank window with the options “yes” or “no”. The Setup MSI package is looking for MDAC. MDAC already is included with Windows 7 so there is no need to install. Basically you need to [...]

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This post was written by stephen on October 6, 2009 Comments (0)