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The HTPC has Windows MCE (fully updated (including up to dotnet 4.x) so in effect close to XP SP3+) so I may need to avoid the latest MS SQLExpress. We all know what MS think about anything to do with XP these days. I can look into it. Any thoughts on just installing the database engine as is, and then telling tvserver to use it? I haven't been able to find a way of triggering the MP setup database connection dialog where you choose which database to use and set the password etc. I thought (based on the wiki) setuptv.exe --configure-db might do it but no dice. I've also found some notes from when I did the last (current) install in 2012 which suggest deploy thingy objected to my HTPC's OS and I had to do some sort of work-around to get it to run at all.

Talking of the setup database connection dialog - I now recall that on one instance of running tv-config near the start of this debacle that connection dialog did pop up. The entries looked OK and I just pressed enter and it connected but I wonder if it somehow messed up something?

<blockquote data-quote="CathodeRay" data-source="post: 1148223" data-attributes="member: 128074">The HTPC has Windows MCE (fully updated (including up to dotnet 4.x) so in effect close to XP SP3+) so I may need to avoid the latest MS SQLExpress. We all know what MS think about anything to do with XP these days. I can look into it. Any thoughts on just installing the database engine as is, and then telling tvserver to use it? I haven't been able to find a way of triggering the MP setup database connection dialog where you choose which database to use and set the password etc. I thought (based on the wiki) setuptv.exe --configure-db might do it but no dice. I've also found some notes from when I did the last (current) install in 2012 which suggest deploy thingy objected to my HTPC's OS and I had to do some sort of work-around to get it to run at all.Talking of the setup database connection dialog - I now recall that on one instance of running tv-config near the start of this debacle that connection dialog did pop up. The entries looked OK and I just pressed enter and it connected but I wonder if it somehow messed up something?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CathodeRay, post: 1148223, member: 128074"] The HTPC has Windows MCE (fully updated (including up to dotnet 4.x) so in effect close to XP SP3+) so I may need to avoid the latest MS SQLExpress. We all know what MS think about anything to do with XP these days. I can look into it. Any thoughts on just installing the database engine as is, and then telling tvserver to use it? I haven't been able to find a way of triggering the MP setup database connection dialog where you choose which database to use and set the password etc. I thought (based on the wiki) setuptv.exe --configure-db might do it but no dice. I've also found some notes from when I did the last (current) install in 2012 which suggest deploy thingy objected to my HTPC's OS and I had to do some sort of work-around to get it to run at all. Talking of the setup database connection dialog - I now recall that on one instance of running tv-config near the start of this debacle that connection dialog did pop up. The entries looked OK and I just pressed enter and it connected but I wonder if it somehow messed up something? [/QUOTE]