{"id":547,"date":"2005-08-24T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/having-trouble-accessing-recently.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-16T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T16:17:40","slug":"having-trouble-accessing-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/having-trouble-accessing-recently.htm","title":{"rendered":"Having trouble accessing a recently installed instance of MSDE?  Make sure the MSSQLSERVER service is started!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--112489315051299378-->I just spent ages trying to work out why I couldn&#8217;t access the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sql\/msde\/\">Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine<\/a> (MSDE) instance that an application had just installed&#8230; it may sound obvious, but make sure the MSSQLSERVER service is started!<\/p>\n<p>In my defence, if an application requires a server or service restart after installation, I expect it to tell me that&#8217;s what it needs, but the version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solutionsam.com\/solutions\/6_0\/MSDE2000sp3a.exe\">MSDE 2000 SP3A<\/a> downloaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solutionsam.com\/solutions\/6_0\/Altiris_NS_6_0.exe\">Altiris Notification Server 6.0<\/a> didn&#8217;t seem to do that. I had similar problems a few weeks back whilst playing around with <a href=\"http:\/\/communityserver.org\/\">Community Server<\/a>. 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