When you look at the installed programs with SQL Server 2014 CTP1 you see the following: There is no BIDS or Visual Studio installed with CTP1 of SQL Server 2014.  After some additional research, and discovering that I didn’t miss something on the installation.  There is no more Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) in SQL Server 2014, instead it can be downloaded …

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Today I ran the install of SQL Server 2012 RC2 on another computer this time a Windows 7 computer not on a domain.  Here is the trouble that I ran into.   SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error: There was a failure to validate setting CTLRUSERS in validaton function ValidateUsers. Error code 0x85640004.   Then immediately after, I …

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