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    Hi CRM Experts. Having trouble installing CRM 3 on SBS 2003 with SQL 2005. After finally getting it all happy with SQL 2005 full  text searching and getting MS SQL 2005 Reporting Services working (independent of CRM), I am now getting an error message in installation that reads: "The specified path is not a metabase path. Parameter name: path". Clicking details it says the same thing.

    During the installation I specified the existing path to the resports server as http://reports/reportserver (I have created a DNS C-Name for reports to resolve to the server IP). Reporting services when accessing this address from any browser in the business works fine, as does http://reports/reports.

    Can anyone suggest what it is that CRM is having trouble with here?

    Tuesday, October 16, 2007 5:59 AM

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    This list of web-sites looks OK (the issue I was thinking of can occur if you do not have a web site with ID of 1). So it's probably something else...

     

    Are you using host-headers on the ReportServer web-site ? If so, I'd try removing them, at least for the duration of the install. I'd change the web site to use a different port number an use that - i.e. http://[server-ip]Stick out tongueort/reportserver. If this works, you can change it back after the install and use CRM Deployment to change the URL.

     

    Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:54 AM
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    There are a couple of possible reasons for this. The most likely is if you have ISA 2004; if so have a look at the following (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913518)

     

    The other possible cause is if you don't have a default web site in IIS, or if the web site identifier is not 1. Have a look in IIS manager and list the web sites to see the corresponding identifier

     

    Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:08 AM
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    Well, I do not have ISA installed... so I'm guessing that is not it.

    As to the web site identifier, now that could be a possibility. The server in question actiually has eight websites... three are public sites. The others are:

    Default Web Site (ID 1)
    Microsoft Sharepoint Administration (ID 2)
    Sharepoint Central Administration (ID 3)
    companyweb (ID 4)
    ReportServer (ID 840889348)

    Are you saying that I should set the ID of the ReportServer website, that I created and is the one used by SQL 2005 Reporting Services to ID 1?
    Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:22 AM
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    This list of web-sites looks OK (the issue I was thinking of can occur if you do not have a web site with ID of 1). So it's probably something else...

     

    Are you using host-headers on the ReportServer web-site ? If so, I'd try removing them, at least for the duration of the install. I'd change the web site to use a different port number an use that - i.e. http://[server-ip]Stick out tongueort/reportserver. If this works, you can change it back after the install and use CRM Deployment to change the URL.

     

    Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:54 AM
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    That worked!! That is the removal of all host-headers except for one which has to be blank (to get Reporting Services to work in the first place) and using http://servername/reportserver . Thanks David, I have been working on this for days now and finally I can actually *start* the install. Now for the rest of it...
    Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:17 AM