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

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 14:47 34 Comments

This is a problem about privileges. Probably the installer performs the latests tasks without using elevation.
Solution is very simple: run the installer from an elevated command prompt.

Click Start.
Type “cmd” end press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and accept the elevation.
Execute the installer from there (just type path and filename).

This works on Windows Vista and, of course, on Windows 7.
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