Install issue with Express w/ Advanced Services - AGTACCOUNT

I'm just running the install directly from the executable thats downloaded from the microsoft site and get the following warning which then causes the install to exit (gracefully).

Is this something that needs to be set before installing? I can't find any documentation on it.

Regards

Richard

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup

SQL Server Setup has determined that the following account properties are not specified: 'AGTACCOUNT' . The properties specify the startup account for the services that are installed. To proceed, refer to the template.ini and set the properties to valid account names. If you are specifying a windows user account, you must also specify the password for the account.

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.2047.00&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=28006&EvtType=sqlca%5csqlguica.cpp%40SetUnattendedSvcAccountProp%40SetUnattendedSvcAccountProp%40x6d66

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I'm going to move this to the Setup forum.

- Mike

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Hallo,

I got the same error yesterday, then i removed the old version of .net framework(i installed two version), after that the setup works again.

check if you also have beta or pre-release version of sql server, visual studio, or .net framwork installed on your machine.

anyway, this is quit a strange error message for me.

Good luck

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I just got the same error and i have not installed any beta version of any software I was trying to get new installation for my development server.

What do you recommend I uninstall what components of SQL or .NET framework?

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Im posting this here as its seems to be a common problem that knowbody is answering.

When installing SQL Server Express 2005 from the downloaded file NOT from the command line an error reguarding the agtaccount appears.

This usually happens if the install directories exist on the hard disk from other versions of SQL server.

i.e. The install directories have been copied to the hard disk from the cd/dvd rather than installing off the cd.

also any temp directories created by other SQL installation usually off root a long string of chars and numbers.

i.e. c:\f654e6a76ed87b6df65s

anything like the above must be deleted before the Express edition is installed.

Somehow the Express installation is getting mixed up with install files from other versions.

Hope this helps

William Humphreys

quickcode@.technical-solutions.co.uksql