Today I installed the Visual Web Developer/C# 2005 Express editions and just want to get the simple Homepage template running. The express editions install also the new MSDE 2005 Express (silently) - so I assumed it would run out of the box.

Bang! SQL failure: "Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance". Yes, I read all the articles I found at the net here and here and there: no success. Now are three hours fighting the problem are lost, out of ideas. I installed all of them as a normal domain user (member of the local adimistrators group) while I'm offline from the company's local network. Is this also a kind of remote desktop issue (and if so: a bug within the OS)? Should it gone if I would work from within the local area network@work?

And: I really miss the system tray console window to control the SQL Server Express engine like that of v2003...