SQL2008 X64 Developer Installation Error

This is the error as copied from the error dialog:

The following error has occurred:

Upgrade Failed due to the following Error.The error code is
:-2147467259.Message:Unspecified error

For help, click:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkI...25401201%25401


The summary page indicated that Business Intelligence Development Studio had
failed.

Does anybody know what caused this. The link provided no additional
information.

Thanks

You might want to do some googling, if the error is in fact BIDS, this
requires VS 2005. As far as I can tell VS 2008 does NOT include BIDS.

BI Development Studio is an extension of Visual Studio. What happens is
that you end up loading visual studio and selecting a Report project
when you click on BI Dev Tool.

Tom wrote:
> This is the error as copied from the error dialog:
>
> The following error has occurred:
>
> Upgrade Failed due to the following Error.The error code is
> :-2147467259.Message:Unspecified error
>
> For help, click:
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkI...25401201%25401
>
>
> The summary page indicated that Business Intelligence Development Studio had
> failed.
>
> Does anybody know what caused this. The link provided no additional
> information.
>
> Thanks

I am seeing this as well. The weird thing is that I have successfully
installed it
on a machine with VS2008 SP1, and it was fine. But, no luck on my other
machines.

The only thing I can think of is that I installed VS2008 to a non-standard
location on
the machine that fails. I'm wondering if the installer freaks out because of
that.

May test this theory soon. If anybody else has any clues, let us know. The
logs are
of little use, and I'm not quite ready to dig through the installer package.

"Tom" wrote:

> This is the error as copied from the error dialog:
>
> The following error has occurred:
>
> Upgrade Failed due to the following Error.The error code is
> :-2147467259.Message:Unspecified error
>
> For help, click:
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkI...25401201%25401
>
>
> The summary page indicated that Business Intelligence Development Studio had
> failed.
>
> Does anybody know what caused this. The link provided no additional
> information.
>
> Thanks

For me, I have confirmed that if Visual 2008 SP1 is installed anywhere
but the default location, then BIDS installation will fail. The problem is a
custom
action Do_sqlCopyXML_64 expects the devenv.exe.config to be there and if it
is not,
it fails.

The work around seems to be reinstall Visual Studio 2008 SP1 in the default
location.

I will report this.

"Tom" wrote:

> This is the error as copied from the error dialog:
>
> The following error has occurred:
>
> Upgrade Failed due to the following Error.The error code is
> :-2147467259.Message:Unspecified error
>
> For help, click:
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkI...25401201%25401
>
>
> The summary page indicated that Business Intelligence Development Studio had
> failed.
>
> Does anybody know what caused this. The link provided no additional
> information.
>
> Thanks

But its nothing helps me. When I install SP1 - no option for file directory
even.
What's up ?

"ndykman" wrote:

> For me, I have confirmed that if Visual 2008 SP1 is installed anywhere
> but the default location, then BIDS installation will fail. The problem is a
> custom
> action Do_sqlCopyXML_64 expects the devenv.exe.config to be there and if it
> is not,
> it fails.
>
> The work around seems to be reinstall Visual Studio 2008 SP1 in the default
> location.
>
> I will report this.
>
> "Tom" wrote:
>
> > This is the error as copied from the error dialog:
> >
> > The following error has occurred:
> >
> > Upgrade Failed due to the following Error.The error code is
> > :-2147467259.Message:Unspecified error
> >
> > For help, click:
> > http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkI...25401201%25401
> >
> >
> > The summary page indicated that Business Intelligence Development Studio had
> > failed.
> >
> > Does anybody know what caused this. The link provided no additional
> > information.
> >
> > Thanks