Dear Colleagues
My environment is the following: -
1 Test Server (Will be used as the CRM Server and the SQL Server)
1 Exchange Server
2 Domain Controllers
Before my initial attempt to install CRM, the Test Server already had SQL
Server 2000 installed and both SQL server and agent were both started, with
multiple instances.
When I installed CRM for the first time the first problem I encountered was
the CRM installation could not find a SQL Server database, after reading the
deployment guide again I realised that Microsoft CRM can only support what is
known as a â??Default Instanceâ?? of SQL server.
To overcome this problem, because it was a test server I un-installed SQL
Server, and followed the CRM deployment guide to installing SQL Server, â??but
would not like to do that in the futureâ??.
After I installed CRM Successfully I encountered the following problems: -
â?¢I accessed IIS on the Test server Selected the CRM website I made a choice
to browse the site I then was prompted for a USERNAME, PASSWORD and DOMAIN
NAME. I tried to access the site using the Domainâ??s Administrators Username
first then I tried the CRM Admin Username, and both didnâ??t work?
I have now un-install CRM from the test server completely and now I would
like to know what pre-requisites in full are there for installing CRM,
concerning the following: -
â?¢IIS (Default Website)
â?¢SQL Server
Also
â?¢Is there any way I could create a default instance of SQL Server without
doing a re-installation of SQL Server??
â?¢And what exactly is a Default instance of SQL??