Oh my!

MSCS is not hard to set up and there are many available walk throughs on the Internet.

But now install SQL Server 2005 in failover mode.

Step back a sec, what is failover mode you ask?

It is a smallish cluster of 2 nodes, one active and one standby. This allows a decent amount of redundancy for your SQL server.  It matches up with the KISS principle.

So you want to install SQL Server 2005 (and I will now reference it going forward as SQL2K5), so you log into your nodes to get it installed, insert the DVD, and start the walk through.

FAIL

Huh? What is this reference to ‘Task Scheduler’ and the inability to run the remote install?

And now the frustration starts…

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