I'm getting the following message during installation of 1.7.0. It fails during the "Searching for SQL Servers" part

Hmmm...I've always installed SF to a SQL server with a dash in the machine name. Never had a problem. Was SQL Server 2k though on Windows Server 2003, if that makes any difference.

I think it may have to do with the length of the computer name used. Even though Windows let you use more than 15 characters I believe it will recognized up to 9 or 15 in some OSs, since Michael changed the computer name to "WIN7VM" and the problem was gone, means that it definitely have something to do with the computer name.



Probably the function used by SF or IA installation has a limitation on the computer name.

Edhy Rijo

We are investigating this on the IA side. We may change the way that this search takes place as we are, at present, allowing IA to do the search. We can turn the automatic search off altogether and it will never show the error, but it also requires that you know the SQL Server name...which seems like a simple thing, but we have a number of developers who are not only new to .NET, but new to SQL Server many times as well and this step is more difficult.



Also, I have seen this when people are loading on a VMWare environment as well, just FYI.

All server names I've used have been less than 15 characters, though almost all had a dash.