I receive
"SQL Server Product Key is not valid"

When I try to install SQL2005 Enterprise Edition with a template.ini
file (unattended installation). However I am certain the key is
valid.

The key is from our Micorsoft Agreement. When we run a manual install
from the same media the Product ID (PID) is uneditable/ greyed out and
the installation is always successful.

Anyone else have this problem or have an idea of the cause?

Regards
Rob.

On 22 Feb, 16:54, "Rob" <rob.fi... (AT) totaljobsgroup (DOT) com> wrote:
BTW I have ensure the PID has no dashes, and have also tried removing
the PID entirely from template.ini but to no avail :-(

It seems I missed off the [OPTIONS], with that inserted at the start
of the script it continues. And now I have a different problem!...

It is trying to install on the second node of the cluster, and creates
a scheduled task manager, but it fails to execute this successfully,
in the setup logs there is an access denied message on the second
node. However I have ensured the account belongs to the local admin
of each server. And I can browse to the setup.exe on the 1st node
from the secondary node.

Found the problem with Task Manager - because I had another Terminal
Session open on the other client node.
I still ahve problems though, the client tools etc install on both
nodes but the Shared Database won't. From the logs:


Error: Action "LaunchLocalBootstrapAction" threw an exception during
execution. Error information reported during run:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\setup.exe"
finished and returned: 67
Aborting queue processing as nested installer has completed
Message pump returning: 67

and

sqls::HighlyAvailablePackage:reInstall
sqls::HighlyAvailablePackage::manageVsResources

Notify package to begin: 67
Error Code: 0x80070043 (67)
Windows Error Text: The network name cannot be found.

Source File Name: sqlchaining\highlyavailablepackage.cpp
Compiler Timestamp: Mon Aug 29 01:18:42 2005
Function Name: sqls::HighlyAvailablePackage::manageVsResources
Source Line Number: 478

I don't know why it says network name can't be found as I can ping
each node.

Any Ideas anyone?

Rob -

Did you find a solution to this? I am getting the same error.

Thanks.

"Rob" wrote:

For me the problem was that the name of my "Network connection" in the .ini file was wrong. Instead of 'LAN' it was 'LAN(1)'. So the 'network name' in the error description is the name of your public cluster network connection and not some server or DNS name.