Maximizer 10 and Windows 7

gavinNew Member

I am trying to install a fresh Server installation of Maximizer on to a Windows7 (64bit) PC.

I havent managed to cleanly install the SQl server parts.

After scouring the internet for information it seems the Maximizer instance is created but the maconfig table is not being created.

There isnt a prompt to choose/setup the SQL instance and login name during the install (as per the admin documentation) so I suspect this might be a cause.

I cant aee how I can force create or manaully create the maconfig file. I cant see why it isnt being created.

As a result when you try and create an addressbook Maximizer says it cant login maximizer_default and there are errors in the configuration. All relared to connecting/setup of SQL I suspect.

I have tried multiple removals of SQL server, Maximizer. Manual setup of the Maximizer instance as well as a compelte removal and attempt to install from Maximizer setup alone. All fail at the same step.

Any ideas would me most appreciated.
I am trying to setup Maximizer 10 on Windows 7 64 bit.

thanks.

2/20/138:38 PM

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gavinNew Member

also wanted to add that I have a working Maximizer 10 setup working on SQL 2008 on a SBS 2008 machine which I am trying to replicate. I cant see the maconfig table on that machine but Maximizer works fine.

any help would be most appreciated. I really cant see where I am going wrong here.

Is it simply a case that Max 10 wont install on a Windows 7 64 bit machine?

2/21/1310:27 PM

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jeffbNew Member

I have been struggling with this same issue for days and have finally found a solution. It does appear to be an issue with 64bit versions of windows where the maximizer_default user is not created in SQL. Without the correct password you cannot just create one either. After painstaking internet research and not really finding a solution I found a Microsoft article that describes how to export users and password from an existing SQL installation.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918992 - Method 3. Once you have extracted the output from running this, you will have the create login query with the hashed password for the maximize_default user. This is what mine output and that I executed on the new server and now maximizer can connect to SQL correctly and create/restore databases.

CREATE LOGIN [maximizer_default] WITH PASSWORD = 0x0100967DAF14C2FC55BDF62BD678CAF2C0A1904E017D4A58C114 HASHED, SID = 0x8F6F7B68D7E2F84D8669D23095300E4E, DEFAULT_DATABASE = [master], CHECK_POLICY = ON, CHECK_EXPIRATION = OFF

After creating the login with the script you will need to give it sysadmin privileges

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