hi all,
can i install b.o. XI R2 with on windows server 2008? can i use mssql server 2008 for the repository?
is it supported?
thanks
massimo (BOB member since 2006-05-16)
I’m trying to install it on W2008R2 & SQLExpress 2008.
After installation, you need to remove the dependency to ntlmssp because it is not available since W2008.
The connection to the database was made by an odbc-connection after I manually created a database.
All services came up (after restart) except for the management service.
Now I’m stuck …
If I try to start it, I get event 33015 (BusinessObjects_CMS) : "Could not read key (DatabaseDriver) from registry.
I tried to make the connection again via the central config manager, but it doesn’t work.
Someone ??
Regards from Belgium
geertn (BOB member since 2010-05-06)
First upon all, it is not supported, 
however I tried installing it on Windows Server 2008, installation succeed. However after installation, there were very few services in CCM, and none of them were starting except Apache Tomcat.
nicholas (BOB member since 2008-07-31)
Yes, I know that is not supported, but I have licenses for W2008, so I’m trying to get it to work.
If you clear the dependency of all the BO-services with ntlmssp (like I discribed), you’ll see that all the services will work except 1 = Central management server.
Then you can go to the startpage via web, but you could not logon …
Regards,
Geert
geertn (BOB member since 2010-05-06)
Windows 2008 is not supported at all and I don’t think you can even get XIR2 to even work on that version of Windows.
If you are moving to a new server, now is probably good time to upgrade to XI 3.1. But not even that supports Win 2008 R2 only original 2008 is supported.
andyt 
(BOB member since 2006-02-02)