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Unable to Install Microsoft SQL Server Express on Windows 10 20H2

Evan Stone

BarTender Content Team

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Symptom

The problem presents itself when trying to install the full BarTender Suite and SQL Server as part of the BarTender installation. You may encounter the following error, BarTender was unable to install Microsoft SQL Express...

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If you proceed to manually install SQL Server Express using the instructions here, you will either see the SQL Server installer go unresponsive or get the error message, Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation...

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Applicable to

BarTender 2019 and later

Windows 10 Version 20H2

Solution

This is a known issue when running Windows 10 version 20H2 and installing SQL Server Express 2014. For more information, visit Microsoft's support site.

As a workaround, you will need to update to the latest standalone version of Microsoft Edge from Microsoft's website.

  1. Either click Download button that matches your operating system, or navigate to the Looking for an older version of Edge? section and select the latest version.
Alternatively, you can also update Windows 10 to a more recent build or download and install Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (instead of 2014).

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