Although Windows Vista was released to manufacturing in November, the much needed deployment tools were not. Since then, things have been coming together, and and with last week’s release of the Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment 2007 (BDD 2007), the final piece is in place. Organizations now have everything they need to set about making Vista deployment plans in earnest.
I’ve been working with BDD for a while in beta and was anxious get the final release installed in my environment. After making a backup of my distributions share, I uninstalled the beta and manually deleted everything else. After a system restart, I began the process of putting it all back. From beginning to end, the process took about two hours.
The only issue that I experienced after the install was the inability to connect to my database. After entering the necessary information, I received a message stating “Unable to load SQL Server OLEDB provider resource DLL.” I never received this message running beta version of the BDD. I solved the problem by finding a copy of sqloledb.rll and copying it to C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Ole DB\Resources\1033.
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