Saturday, November 23, 2013

SQL Server 2008 R2 installation

I was trying to install SQL Server 2008 R2 express. I got the following error message. Please help me to solve the problem.
Thanks
[Error Message]
Attributes do not match. Present attributes (Directory, Compressed) , included attributes (0), excluded attributes (Compressed, Encrypted).

[Details]
Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Sco.DirectoryAttributesMissmatch: Attributes do not match. Present attributes (Directory, Compressed) , included attributes (0), excluded attributes (Compressed, Encrypted).
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For those that stumble upon this as well. I had the same issue with SQL Server 2008r2 on a Dev box.
For me, the error message was valid, the setup had found compressed files and "Compressed" is an excluded attribute.
So decompress folders C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server and if you have it C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server.
Good luck