Error While Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on Windows XP
I’m setting up a new PC with all the tools a Web Developer might need. While installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005, I encountered the following error during setup:
SQL Server Setup failed to obtain system account information for the ASPNET account. To proceed, reinstall the .NET Framework, and then run SQL Server Setup again.
This is caused when ASP.net is installed before enabling IIS. This is easily fixed using the following on the command line:
\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\<version>\aspnet_regiis.exe -i
Thanks for this precious bit of information! Now I can continue past the error message…
Comment on March 13, 2007 @ 11:05 am
I also had an error that the SQL Native Client installation package cannot be found. Did you come across such a thing?
Comment on March 13, 2007 @ 11:21 am
Thanks a lot for putting this up. I had this error and your article helped me from hours of headache figuring out what the hell Microsoft meant with that error message.
Comment on April 12, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
@Amit - You bet. I post things that I’ve had trouble figuring out so that I’ll remember how to deal with them next time.
Comment on April 12, 2007 @ 3:08 pm
hi,
Its really helped me out in solving this issue. Thanks a lot:)
Comment on July 30, 2008 @ 10:11 pm