Install error "failure compiling WMI registration file"

Help!
I've tried for days just to simply install Reporting Services. Didn't think
it would be so damn fiddly.
I'm getting an error which has been reported a few times before but with no
answer. Someone must've gotten their way around it.
The installation proceeds nicely then up pops "Failure compiling WMI
registration file".
Clicking OK then pops up "Error code -2147217406".
No clues in event viewer.
I have XP professional. SQL Server 2000 SP3a, Visual Studio .Net 2003,
Framework 1.1, SQL Analysis ServicesHello Danny,
I don't recall seeing this particular exception. However the installation
log files might give you more to go on
they are placed in a cab file...called "RSStp_.cab" in "\Microsoft SQL
Server\80\RS Setup Bootstrap\Log".
Peter Blackburn MVP
www.sqlreportingservices.net
"Danny Costa" <qq@.qq.com> wrote in message
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> Help!
> I've tried for days just to simply install Reporting Services. Didn't
> think
> it would be so damn fiddly.
> I'm getting an error which has been reported a few times before but with
> no
> answer. Someone must've gotten their way around it.
> The installation proceeds nicely then up pops "Failure compiling WMI
> registration file".
> Clicking OK then pops up "Error code -2147217406".
> No clues in event viewer.
> I have XP professional. SQL Server 2000 SP3a, Visual Studio .Net 2003,
> Framework 1.1, SQL Analysis Services
>
>|||Thx Peter.
I looked in the log files, but it makes no sense to me. What do I need to
look for?
cheers
Danny
"Danny Costa" <qq@.qq.com> wrote in message
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> Help!
> I've tried for days just to simply install Reporting Services. Didn't
think
> it would be so damn fiddly.
> I'm getting an error which has been reported a few times before but with
no
> answer. Someone must've gotten their way around it.
> The installation proceeds nicely then up pops "Failure compiling WMI
> registration file".
> Clicking OK then pops up "Error code -2147217406".
> No clues in event viewer.
> I have XP professional. SQL Server 2000 SP3a, Visual Studio .Net 2003,
> Framework 1.1, SQL Analysis Services
>
>|||I have exactly the same problem. Did you get any solution for this problem?
"Danny Costa" wrote:
> Help!
> I've tried for days just to simply install Reporting Services. Didn't think
> it would be so damn fiddly.
> I'm getting an error which has been reported a few times before but with no
> answer. Someone must've gotten their way around it.
> The installation proceeds nicely then up pops "Failure compiling WMI
> registration file".
> Clicking OK then pops up "Error code -2147217406".
> No clues in event viewer.
> I have XP professional. SQL Server 2000 SP3a, Visual Studio .Net 2003,
> Framework 1.1, SQL Analysis Services
>
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