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2. The Group Policy for “Turn off windows Windows Installer RDS Compatibility” is either not set or Disabled. This policy when NOT enabled (see screenshot below) will prevent multiple Windows Installer installers from running.
Proper Install Process
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Creation of a Link Item Database Fails During Installation
Problem
On installation, you are prompted with this error before the installer fails out
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| Download and install the Feature Pack for your Version version of SQL Server below. A restart may be required. |
Uncommon install issue
Your previously installed instance of SQL may have a different collation than the installer is trying to write. The Green box on the left is the default US collation.
Solution: install Install a new SQL named instance with the default US collation - SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.
See Microsoft article for more details.
SQL
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Server collation
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