My work place runs a piece of accounting software on a main server and allows users to access it from their workstations. To configure a workstation we need to install SQL Server 2005 and choose the Workstation Components. After installation we run the SQL Server Configuration Manager and create an alias for the host server.
All workstations are running 32bit Windows 7 with no issues however we have recently build a 64bit workstation to see what issues we will face when we upgrade to 64bit computing. So far the only issue we have is with SQL Server Configuration Manager as it only shows a branch for 32bit SQL Native Client Configuration (32 bit), there is no branch showing up for 64bit. The result is that aliases to the server fail.
I have hunted the Internet for an answer and see several examples that show the configuration manager with both branches. I have tried a complete uninstall of SQL 2005 and re-installed with no change. Any idea what is going wrong?