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Written by:
Euricom
5/29/2009 1:04 PM
We recently where hit with a ‘To connect to this server you must use SQL Server Management Studio or SQL Server Management Objects (SMO)’ exception on a fresh machine with SQL Server 2008 installed on it.
This error message is thrown when an application tries to connect to SQL Server through SQL-DMO (especially when SQL 2005 was never installed on that machine). An example of such an application is the previous Euricom Server Framework.
The somewhat suprising solution was to install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components, to be found here.
Cheers,
Peter
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