Getting 0x84BB0001 when installing SQL Server 2019 Developer Edition with only Database Engine services

Question

Hello

I'm trying to install SQL Server 2019 Developer Edition. I don't need anything but the core so all I selected for the installation is the Database Engine services.
However, that one keeps failing to install and I get the error code 0x84BB0001 as result.

I installed it with admin privileges so I'm not sure what it could mean by with the error description ("Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.").

Never had any SQL Server installed before, so there can't be any old leftovers either. Would be the first instance I tried installing as well.

Would appreciate some help here. Thanks in advance.

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Answer 1

Thanks for the files, but I don't need to look at them. BullGuard is a known troublemaker when it comes to SQL Server installs. I have helped people with this in the past, and I even tried testing installing SQL Server with BullGuard present.

You need to uninstall BullGuard to be able to install SQL Server. You can try just merely disable it, if you like, but that usually don't help with troublesome anti-malware programs, because the issue is presumably with a filter driver. Once you have installed SQL Server, you can reinstall BullGuard if you like to keep it. I am not aware of any problems running SQL Server with BullGuard installed. (But I never came that far in my testing myself.)

Answer 2

Hi,

Here is a similar thread: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/276816/sql-server-express-versions-2016-2017-and-2019-ins.html
I put it here so that others can refer to and solve this error.

Best regards,
Seeya