Comments on: Installing Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express in Windows Vista or Seven: Error 29506.

By: crty

crty — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:52:07 +0000

M$ is one piece of shit…

By: mark

mark — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:55:47 +0000

Thank you so much! It worked after hours of stress.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:41:51 +0000

This method is not working on my pc.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:53:47 +0000

Thanx a lot.

By: dedobe

dedobe — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:28:25 +0000

Very helpful. Thanks!

By: vishal

vishal — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:55:48 +0000

Interestingly, the solution on this page didn’t work for me verbatim. Instead I had to browse to the folder containing the 64 bit version of cmd and then right click the executable and select Run as administrator. I accepted the elevation and then ran the msi for SQL Server Management Studio – This did the trick.

Thanks to all for posting the solution!

Whoops – Just noticed that Chris M also posted a similar solution.

By: megy

megy — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:02:00 +0000

I have the same problem on win 7. Can anyone help me? I did not manage to solve this problem bye my self.

My mail is megy1985@hotmail.com and hope that someone will read this and try with TeamViewer get in my computer and fix it. I am hopeless (

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +0000

Thanks Chris M

Yes this works awsome on 7 64 bit

By: IceMan

IceMan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:07:33 +0000

Hello Chris..

There are lot of solutions published on many sites but none explained in detail for Windows 7, (like mention specific to use 64bit of cmd.exe) I was using the normal cmd but was erroring out. This worked for me. Thanks a lot.

By: chris M

chris M — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:18:35 +0000

For Windows 7 you have to use the 64 CMD and then run this as administrator. So I did the following…
1. Right click on desktop and click NEW – SHORTCUT
2. Create shortcut to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
3. Right click on the new shortcut and Run AS ADMINISTRATOR
4. Enter full path and file name:
e.g. C:\Users\[YOUR NAME]\Downloads\SQLServer2005_SSMSEE_x64.msi
Where [YOUR NAME] is the windows user you are using.