You can't find what? Installing CRM 4.0 from a network share

by Bill Owens 6. August 2008 08:13
posted at: 01.17.2008 at 12:38 AM by Aaron Elder

While not officially a new feature of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0; the ability to install CRM from a network share (or shared drive within Virtual PC 2007) is very much welcomed.  Generally speaking this should "just work", however some of you may be getting an error when you attempt to run setup and clicking next after selecting the SQL server to use.  The error looks something like this and says setup cannot find the file Reserved.sql.

Setup_Error

The reason for this seems to be that the Config folder is not copied from the setup source location into the temporary location from which it actually runs.

To fix this as follows:

  • Simply copy the Config folder from your network share into the temporary location (noted in the error dialog)
  • Click OK on the error dialog
  • Click Next again to try again

Setup_Error_Fix

This time, setup will find the files it needs and all will be well in the world.

Cheers,

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