Failure to install - XOLEHLP.dll not found

Hello,

I'm trying to install CTP3 of katmai on Windows Server 2004 running inside Virtual PC.

It installs the setup files OK. Straight after that I get an error message box saying "The application has failed to start because XOLEHLP.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem"

Clicking OK gives me another message box with the message "TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server code name Katmai Setup

Failed to load SqlSpars.dll

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=10.0.1019.17&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50005&EvtType=setup%5csqlsetupactions.cpp%40InvokeSqlSetupDllAction%40sqls%3a%3aInvokeSqlSetupDllAction%3a%3aperform%400x57

BUTTONS:

OK

"

The link doesn't give me anything useful.

Then I get the familiar 'Send Error Report' dialog. I DID send the error report.

I'm stumped. Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks

Jamie

Moving over to the new Katmai forums|||Jamie,

I assume you tried to instell it on a Win 2003 box (not 2004) :-)

Anyway, that box (or rather VM in your case), how was it created in the first place? Have you done any funky stuff with MSDTC, as xolehlp.dll is a helper file for the DTC. Also, the Katmai installation, was it from the iso or a "normal" installation?

Niels
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Hey there Niels,

You're right. Win2k3. DOH!!!

Interesting your comments about DTC - I'll have a play around with that. I certainly haven't done any changes on the box - its as vanilla as it gets. Standard OS install. I'm using the katmai executable - i.e. not the .iso

This is all at home and I am now at work. I'll have another play around later this evening.

Thanks

Jamie

|||OK, try the ISO and see if it helps.

Niels