Win2k3 Web Edition & SQL Server Airn’t Friends
Half of the world probably knows this by now, and I found this out when Windows 2003 Server was just released years ago, but completely forgot about it. So I’ll blog about it now and never forget again!
Had a new server set up for work today, and installed Windows 2003 Server Web Edition. It was a test server, and I wanted to install SQL Server 2000 to have the web applications all run on the same box.
But double clicking on x86\sqlsetup.exe resulted in the error message “Windows cannot open this program since it has been disabled”.
I then remembered that Win2k3 Web Edition is a cheaper, scaled down version of Win2k3 Server that’s intended to run and host web applications. I reckon other non-Microsoft apps like MySQL will install just fine, but don’t take my word for it.
A quick google search brought me to the MSDN link.
At 2:58 pm, Munki said:
Cheers, I never noticed that I had installed the Web Edition on my VMWare network until I got the above error message and Googled it.
Maybe the red wine was a mistake…
Posted on January 25, 2006