Hello everybody,
at a customer's site there a SharePoint Services 3.0 box with SQL Server 2005 Express. Because the databases grow and grow, we decided to upgrade to 2008 R2 Express with the following plan:
1) Ensure SharePoint Service Pack 3 is installed and Microsoft Update does not have anything new.
2) Stop SharePoint Services.
3) Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2
4) Install all available Updates.
However, after 3) we still talked to a SQL Server 2005 instance (as SELECT @@VERSION returned). We upgraded the OFFICESERVERS instance again (it said it was successful), but still the active service is running SQL 2005.
Our findings was that there was indeed a folder for 2008 R2 OFFICESERVERS with a new version of sqlserver.exe, but the service instance is still pointing to the folder and executable of SQL 2005.
Is this a known problem? Can we just point the services to the 2008 R2 executables in HKLM/CurrentControlSet/Services to fix it?
Best Regards, Stefan Falk