Hello.
If anyone could help me that would be great. I'm starting to loose my hair over this.
We have an SBS2008 Server. We wanted to give SharePoint a go to see and I remembered there was an instance present in SBS2008. I have never really touched SharePoint before so I didnt really know what to expect.
After further investigation I found that the base setup for SharePoint was already in place. I could log onto the Central Administration and see the site through SBS Remote Work space.
The issue I hit first was a some old data and users present in the configuration. After some investigation and trial and error I was unable to remove the users I required so with out really knowing what I was doing (and I wish I hadn't) I uninstalled SharePoint Services 3 from the server with a view to re-install.
Further investigation showed me that just removing SharePoint doesn't remove the database. With this in mind I decided to re-install via the local setup files stored on the SBS server.
All went well. The installation completed successfully until I needed to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard. It gets so far and fails saying the following:
"One or more configuration settings failed. Complete configuration settings will not be rolled back. Resolve the problem and run this configuration wizard again. The following contains detailed information about the failure:
Failed to connect to configuration database.
An exception of type System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException was thrown. Additional exception information: Access to module dbo.proc.getObjectByClass is blocked because the signature is not valid."
I noticed that SQL Server Server 2005 Studio Express was installed on the server so I tried to connect to the MICROSOFT##SSEE server to access the database (which im not to sure if this is possible) and got the following error:
"Cannot connect to MICROSOFT##SSEE
A network related or instance specific error occurred while establishing a connection to the SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL server is configured to allow remote connections.
After some investigation I was able to connect to the database using SQL Server 2005 Studio Express by using the following settings:
Server Type: Database Server
Server Name: \\.\pipe\MSSQL$miCROSOFT##SSEE\sql\query
Authentication: Windows Authentication
Now I am in I dont have a clue what to do and even if I am in the right place to try and fix the error.
This is where my knowledge ends and I was hoping someone could help me put this right.
Any help would be appreciated. I am a little scared of messing around with the server as its also running our instance of Exchange.
Thanks in advance.
Dan Hargrove