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Installing SQL Server 2008 Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) on a non-domain machine

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When installing SQL 2008 R2 BPA on a machine that is not connect to a domain, you may see the following.

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To verify you are hitting the know issue with the BPA installer trying to enable PowerShell remoting, run the following command to generate an installation log.

msiexec /i {full path to BPA MSI} /l*v c:\temp\bpa.txt

Then open up the log file and search for “Error 1722”. If you see this error:

msiexec /i {full path to BPA MSI} SKIPCA=1

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Workaround:

To work around the issue above, you can do the following:

1. Open a command prompt with Administrative Privileges.

2. Execute the following command to install BPA, but skipping Enable-PSREmoting within the installer

msiexec /i {full path to BPA MSI} SKIPCA=1

Where the MSI will either be SQL2008R2BPA_Setup32.msi or SQL2008R2BPA_Setup64.msi depending on your platform.

For example:

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4. Once BPA is installed, run the following command (also from an administrative command prompt):

Powershell.exe -NoLogo -NoProfile -Command Enable-PSRemoting –force

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2011
    Tried that and it still doesn't work.  MS support has been working on this problem for days with no solution in site ;-{

  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2011
    Is your machine joined to a Domain?