Friday 1 October 2010

"" is not a valid login error message when installing SQL Server 2008 Express

When trying to install MS SQL Server Express 2008 onto a Windows XP machine we received the following error message during the later stages of installation.

The message appeared late during the installation, at the stage where it asked which account to run the various SQL services under. The solution was odd, the server name and the user name were the same. Changing either caused the problem to disappear.

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