Can not create a new instance

I have SBS2003. I am trying to install Panda Antivirus. It tries to create an
MSDE instance and fails with "setup failed to configure the server ...". I
have been through the process of deleting the previous MSDE instance
completely yet the problem still occurs. I have tried to create a manual
instance with a different name but get the same error.
Can anyone assist. I dont know where the MSDE install log file is either.
Note also that SBSmonitoring was removed and that too will not re-install
from the SBS CD.
Regards
Ian
hi Ian,
Ian wrote:
> I have SBS2003. I am trying to install Panda Antivirus. It tries to
> create an MSDE instance and fails with "setup failed to configure the
> server ...". I have been through the process of deleting the
> previous MSDE instance completely yet the problem still occurs. I
> have tried to create a manual instance with a different name but get
> the same error.
> Can anyone assist. I dont know where the MSDE install log file is
> either.
> Note also that SBSmonitoring was removed and that too will not
> re-install from the SBS CD.
>
please have a look at
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q290991 for further
instructions on how manually remove a SQL Server/MSDE instance and related
clean up..
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.bizhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.20.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.64.0 and further SQL Tools
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|||Thanks.
I have looked at the steps to remove a named instance of SQL and the
instance is not in the registry. I already have an instance named
MSSQL$SHAREPOINT which works ok so I do not want to remove all instances.
What else can I try?
"Andrea Montanari" wrote:

> hi Ian,
> Ian wrote:
> please have a look at
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q290991 for further
> instructions on how manually remove a SQL Server/MSDE instance and related
> clean up..
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
> http://www.asql.bizhttp://italy.mvps.org
> DbaMgr2k ver 0.20.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.64.0 and further SQL Tools
> -- remove DMO to reply
>
>