>Hi All,
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>I have installed MSDE on my machine. I have customized my installation instead of using the MSDE typical installation. To customize the installation I have put the following on the setup.ini file:
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>SECURITYMODE=SQL
>SAPWD="SA_Password"
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>By default installation MSDE assigned blank password to SA user. I don't want to have blank password to SA user that's why I have use the SAPWD parameter to assign password to SA user. But the problem I have encountered, the SA user still using a blank password. Is anyone have an idea with regards to this issue? I have already tried putting additional parameter "BLANKSAPWD=0" but still no effect. Any idea would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi Rene,

What MSDE version/SP are you installing? The SAPWD option was introduced in SP3 INF: New Switches in MSDE Service Pack 3 Setup mskb #810826.