SharePoint 2010 Beta Installation (Part 10): Installing SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update Package 2 (CU2) 64 bit

This is the tenth post in a series of posts where I'm using screen shots to walk you through the steps to install SharePoint 2010 and all its prerequisites such as OS, SQL Server, service packs, cumulative update packages, etc.

In this post, we'll install the SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update Package 2 (CU2), which can be downloaded from the following URL:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970315

Getting CU2 requires you to provide an email address to Microsoft. Make sure the settings on your browser is correct so you get 64 bit version of CU2. You’ll get an email from Microsoft that contains two links with two passwords. Click the second link first to download the first hotfix. After you download it, execute it. This will try to unzip the file and will pop up the following asking for the password that you got from Microsoft:

Enter the password and click OK. After unzipping is done, use the Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder where the hotfix is unzipped and click the hotfix to execute it:

You should get no failures, warning, or skipped items. Click Next:

Accept the license terms and click Next:

Make sure the MSSQLSERVER option is checked. This is the default SQL Server instance that we installed in a couple of posts ago. In other words, we're going to apply the hotfix to this instance to update it:

Click Next

This screen gives you the last chance to ensure that the right features are updated with this hotfix. Make sure this includes the default SQL Server instance and click Update to update the instance with the changes in this hotfix:

This screen confirms that the hotfix updated the default SQL Server instance. Click Next:

Click Close. You're now done with the installation of the first hotfix. Do the same thing with the first link in the email that you got from Microsoft and follow the same steps to install the other hotfix.

We're now done with the installation of the prerequisites for SharePoint 2010 Beta. In the next post, we'll install SharePoint 2010 Beta.