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Article ID: 938217 - Last Review: July 16, 2007 - Revision: 1.0
Error message when you run the "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration" wizard to configure SharePoint Server 2007: "Failed to create the configuration database"
Consider the following scenario. You install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a server in a server farm. The server farm deployment uses Microsoft SQL Server 2005 as the database server. You run the "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration" wizard to configure SharePoint Server 2007.
In this scenario, you receive the following error message during step 2 of the wizard:
Failed to create the configuration database
An Exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException was thrown. Additional Exception: unable to connect to database. Check database connection information and make sure the database server is running.
This issue occurs if the following conditions are true:
- The default instance of SQL Server 2005 was created as a named instance.
- You did not specify the instance name in the "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration" wizard.
To resolve this issue, specify the instance name of SQL Server 2005 when you specify the database server in the "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration" wizard. When you do this, use the following format:
DatabaseServerName\InstanceName
If you use the default instance of SQL Server 2005, the service is listed in the Services tool as
SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER). If you use a named instance of SQL Server 2005, the service is listed in the Services tool as
SQL Server (InstanceName).
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
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