McAfee EPO 4.5 installation issues

Hi All,

I've been losing about an hour during the installation of McAfee EPO 4.5 somewhere this week; As you may already know, that always inspires me to write a blog post about it.

All mcAfee EPO config information is stored in an MSDE/SQL 2005 Express db; however, although SQL 2005 Express was installed on the server, McAfee Installation Wizard couldn't find it. After a lot of searching, reinstalling SQL Express,... I found the solution:

- Go into the SQL Server Configuration Manager / network configurations / select the instance (mine was called EPO)

- Make sure TCP/IP Protocol is enabled and take note of it's port number

Back into the McAfee Installation Wizard window, enter the servername and instance correctly (NETBIOS\<InstanceName>)

+ enter the correct TCP/IP port number

This should allow you to continue the remainder of the installation wizard process.

Cheers,

/Peter