August 6, 2018
SQL Server 2008 R2 upgrade and INSTALLSHAREDDIR/INSTALLSHAREDWOWDIR
I recently found myself trying to upgrade an old SQL Server 2008 R2 instance to SP3 so that it could in turn be upgraded to SQL Server 2014, but quickly ran into problems with the following error message: The INSTALLSHAREDWOWDIR command line value is not valid. Please ensure the specified path is valid and different than the INSTALLSHAREDDIR path. At...