I was just installing MSDE 2000 release A on my local machine to do a little bit of pre-application testing and after downloading the 43Mb exe from http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/downloads/download.mspx and unzippin I ran setup and got the error:
” A strong SA Password required for security reasons. Please use SAPWD switch to supply the same………”
To get around this, instead browse to where it has unzipped itself, and run it with the option:
C:\Downloads\MSDE\setup.exe SAPWD=yournewSAPassword
After this it should install fine.
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Thank you for the simple yet extremely useful information. It was exactly what I needed.
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Thank you for the information. It saved me a lot of time and it is really the easiest and simplest
way to get around it. However, the method I used is I clicked on start and then clicked on
run where I typed in C:\MSDERelA\setup SAPWD=newpassword, and the pressed enter or click ok.
Presto! you are there.