I Installed Symantec Management Platform 7.0.3876, SP1 7.0.4739 with MSSQL 2005 Express Edition, everything worked fine. I wanted to upgrade to MSSQL 2005 Standard Edition so I didn't have as many limitations. First I Installed 2 updates for the Management Platform SP1 HF2 7.0.4756 and Documentation Update 7.0.1010 then I unistalled MSSQL EE & Installed MSSQL 2005 SE. (I'm not surprised something went wrong). Now when I try to activate the Console the big Symantec Management Server Error Sign shows up. Here is the Error Log:

(I'm pretty sure the server allows remote connections, when I go to the surface area configuration for services and connections->MSSQLSERVER->database Engine->Remote Connections the local and remote connections are enabled).

Log File Name: C:\Program Files\Altiris\Notification Server\Logs\a.log

Priority: 1

Date: 7/17/2009 3:16:41 PM

Tick Count: 3925125

Host Name: CS-ALTIRECO

Process: w3wp (5744)

Thread ID: 17

Module: w3wp.exe

Source: Altiris.TaskManagement.ClientTask.*

Description: BaseXmlCallback Exception: Altiris.NS.Exceptions.DatabaseNotReadyException: Failed to construct DatabaseContext object. Connection to database failed. ---> Altiris.NS.Exceptions.AeXException: Failed to open database connection. Current user is CS-ALTIRECO\Administrator. Error: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj)

at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Connect(ServerInfo serverInfo, SqlInternalConnectionTds connHandler, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, Int64 timerExpire, Boolean encrypt, Boolean trustServerCert, Boolean integratedSecurity, SqlConnection owningObject)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.AttemptOneLogin(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, Int64 timerExpire, SqlConnection owningObject)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.LoginNoFailover(String host, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnection owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Int64 timerStart)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.OpenLoginEnlist(SqlConnection owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentity identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Object providerInfo, String newPassword, SqlConnection owningObject, Boolean redirectedUserInstance)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection)

at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreatePooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnectionOptions options)

at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.CreateObject(DbConnection owningObject)

at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.UserCreateRequest(DbConnection owningObject)

at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.GetConnection(DbConnection owningObject)

at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection)

at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory)

at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open()

at Altiris.NS.Utilities.DbUtils.OpenConnection(SqlConnection dbConn)

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at Altiris.NS.Utilities.DbUtils.OpenConnection(SqlConnection dbConn)

at Altiris.NS.Utilities.DbUtils.CreateConnection(String configKey)

at Altiris.NS.ContextManagement.AdminDatabaseContext.OpenDbConnection()

at Altiris.Database.DatabaseContext`1.Initialize(Boolean beginTransaction, IsolationLevel isolationLevel)

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at Altiris.NS.ContextManagement.AdminDatabaseContext.ThrowDatabaseNotReadyException(String exceptionDetails, Exception innerException)

at Altiris.Database.DatabaseContext`1.Initialize(Boolean beginTransaction, IsolationLevel isolationLevel)

at Altiris.Database.DatabaseContext`1.GetContext(Boolean createNewTransaction, IsolationLevel isolationLevel, Boolean independentContext)

at Altiris.Database.DatabaseContext`1.GetContext(Boolean createNewTransaction, IsolationLevel isolationLevel)

at Altiris.Database.DatabaseContext`1.GetContext(Boolean createNewTransaction)

at Altiris.NS.ContextManagement.DatabaseContext.GetContext(Boolean createNewTransaction)

at Altiris.TaskManagement.ClientTask.BaseWeb.RegisterTaskServer.WriteResponse(XmlTextWriter wr)

at Altiris.TaskManagement.Common.XmlHttp.BaseXmlXmlHttpCallback.WriteResponseRaw(XmlTextWriter xwr)
at Altiris.TaskManagement.Common.XmlHttp.BaseXmlHttpCallback.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)