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With MS SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019, I am attempting to do something pretty simple: Run the "Installed SQL Server Features Discovery Report" tool that comes in the SQL Server Installation Center utility.
But, even though I am in the administrator's group and regardless if I run the Installation Center as admin or not, this pops up:
TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure.
SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error:
Access is denied.
For help, click: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&EvtType=0xC5001868%25400xDC80C325
BUTTONS:
OK
There's nothing in the logs that seem to indicate a permissions failure, and unfortunately that URL seems to lead to a sales pitch for the Surface tablet. Googling the Event ID leads me to something that claims I should uninstall: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/errors-events/sql-server-native-client-error-mssqlserver-50000?view=sql-server-ver15
That's excessive.
SQL itself runs fine; is there some other permission I need beyond Admin on the machine to run this tool?
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Hi @ME ,
Welcome Microsoft Q&A!
Is event 50000 under the error icon?
Please try the way of cmd, have any different result? The method is in the lower part of the following link.
https://www.mytechmantra.com/sql-server/discover-sql-server-components-installed-using-sql-server-discovery-tool/
Best regards,
Seeya
SeeyaXi,
There is no mention of "Error 5000" under the icon, however the URL it generates if you press "Copy Message" does mention "EvtID 5000", which is pretty similar.
Unfortunately even when I run it from an elevated command prompt, the outcome is the same. The user running it is the local machine admin (by way of an Active Directory account with membership in the Administrators Group via a "Domain Server Admins" group placed within it). Not sure what it is trying to access exactly and why I would be denied.
Thanks,
M.
Figured it out - turns out it was McAfee, blocking a browser from launching. Not having any idea it was a browser that was going to kick off at first, I'd not even thought to check (and no pop-ups are generated by McAfee to hint that way). Disabling HBSS allows the browser to launch, letting me see the installed features.
