While building a Virtual Machine tonight to do some testing and screenshots for a future article/blog post, and possibly for a presentation, I ran into a problem installing SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008.  For whatever reason, during installation the Powershell components for SQL Server 2008 failed to install correctly, but SQL Setup ...

With SQL Server 2008 passing its 6 months since RTM date, a common problem is popping up in the forums and is now listed on Connect.  When an install of Evaluation Edition Expires, the services stop functioning until an upgrade is made to a full version of SQL Server 2008.  This is normal.  The problem is that during the Edition ...