SQL Server 2005 Setup Failing to Install on Cluster with Unexpected Failure while Performing the SCC checks

  We have observed a number of cases where the installation of the sql server 2005 instance on the cluster fails with the following unexpected Failure Error Message while performing SCC checks. ERROR MESSAGE: ==================== There is unexpected failure. MSGID 50000   In order to troubleshoot the issue we followed the following steps 1)       We…

HOW TO CHANGE THE DYNAMIC PORT OF THE SQL SERVER NAMED INSTANCE TO THE STATIC PORT IN A SQL SERVER 2005 CLUSTERED INSTANCE

    In sql server the default instance has a listener which listens on the fixed port which is TCP port 1433. However for the named instance the port on which the sql server listens is random and is dynamically selected when the named instance of the sql server starts. So when we connect to…