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Spiking the OSE Wizard

If you have an existing Intranet when you first install OSE, at the conclusion of the installation, it will pop up the OSE Wizard with a message saying it will now attempt to extend the web.  Blythly, you give it a name and stuff and then it asks for a userid and password.  You give it your user account name and password, and it clicks away and then says it can't use it, please give it another.  You give it the Administrator account name and password.  It still refuses to use it.  You give it every userid/password known and it still says no.  You cancel the extension operation.  Then, every time you boot the server, it goes through the same process.  In the mean time, you are frantically asking question on the Newsgroups and on Compuserve, and no suggestion works.

The KB article, Q216926, describes the procedure for installing the Office Server Extensions. Basically, it says, start the OSE Installation wizard and provide all necessary information. In steps 11 and 12, the OSE wizard is asking for the Account name and password that OSE will use to setup some user role groups for the collaboration database that been priviously created. What the wizard doesn't say is that it is not looking for the NT account names and associated password. Instead, it wants an SQL Login account name and password, which also has been previously created using the SQL7 Enterprise Manager. When this manager creates a login account, by default, it uses the NT account names and does not ask for a password at that point. The OSE installation will not use any of these NT type Accounts. It will only accept a login account of the SQL type. You have to specifically click the SQL Type radio button, at which point you can enter a name and a password for the account. The OSE Installation wizard will accept one of these Accounts and then create the 4 role groups, which you will later populate using the NT User Manager. It gives you the option of requesting autopopulation, but it does not do that.

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Last modified: October 31, 2003