Installs and SQL Server
Today I did my first non-SBS install of MSCRM in a customer’s lab environment. They had SQL Server installed in a named instance which is unsupported by MSCRM, so since I am not a SQL guru (or even a SQL guru in trainingJ) so I involved a SQL expert.
On his advice, we installed a new instance of SQL Server on the same machine as the named instance, apparently you can have up to 16 instances on one SQL install, applied SP4, and away we went. This is a cool feature of SQL I was not aware of, so it was worth getting up today, I learned something new!
I also learned that SQL 2005 can have up to 50 instances!
