I broke my MDAC 8.2 RTM on SBS 2003. Have file mismatches that I can not fix. Help!

While working to try and install and evaluate 3rd party versions of the SQL Enterprise Manager on our SBS 2003, I managed to break our MDAC installation and the results are non-functional Veritas BackupExec (needs the SQL MSDE instance to work), I seem to have broken RAS in the process and our Web access for Outlook 2003 broke too.

It seems there are many dependencies on MDAC working that have now failed with this problem I created.

What I need is help to replace the 5 files that Component Checker (cc.exe) has identified as being mismatched against the expected versions for MDAC 2.8 RTM. This is supposed to be a part of the Windows Small Business Server 2003 installation and I hear that the Veritas setup process may install this too.

To date I can not affect any repairs to MDAC that work or get BackupExec to either repair or uninstall properly.

Help if you can.

Chris

[890 byte] By [Chrispwill] at [2007-12-16]
# 1
Just to make sure I understand your request (which I'm not sure that I can help you with), you need the original 2.8 RTM version of certain MDAC DLLs?
DouglasL at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,SQL Server Setup & Upgrade...
# 2
Chrispwill wrote:
While working to try and install and evaluate 3rd party versions of the SQL Enterprise Manager on our SBS 2003, I managed to break our MDAC installation and the results are non-functional Veritas BackupExec (needs the SQL MSDE instance to work), I seem to have broken RAS in the process and our Web access for Outlook 2003 broke too.

It seems there are many dependencies on MDAC working that have now failed with this problem I created.

What I need is help to replace the 5 files that Component Checker (cc.exe) has identified as being mismatched against the expected versions for MDAC 2.8 RTM. This is supposed to be a part of the Windows Small Business Server 2003 installation and I hear that the Veritas setup process may install this too.

To date I can not affect any repairs to MDAC that work or get BackupExec to either repair or uninstall properly.

Help if you can.

Chris

zhenzhouwang at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,SQL Server Setup & Upgrade...
# 3
Did you get an answer on this? I have ver. 2.82 installed on my new 2003 servers and I have so many mismatched files it'll take me a year to track them all down. Why can't MDAC be rolled back? I can't get any of my Veritas backups running until I can get back to ver. 2.81. I can't believe this software is uninstallable. It's a nightmare!!!!!!!
ArlingtonSue at 2007-9-9 > top of Msdn Tech,SQL Server,SQL Server Setup & Upgrade...

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