Logging in to a new SIMS installation

[AnnDroyd]

I've just done a fresh installation of SIMS and used created a blank database.

 

Obviously at this point, none of our data has been restored to it.

 

In order to recover the backups made using dbattach (as per capita's recommendations) I need to get into System Manager.

 

What login details do I use to do this? Presumably there's a default admin/sysadmin account that allows me to do this.

[Jawloms]

If Capita told you that then they're making it up as they go along! You don't need to get in to Systerm Manager at all.

 

From a command line you run "dbattach /restoreui". This will bring up dbattach with an extra bit down the bottom where you can select your extracted SIMS .net backup and restore it.

 

Stuart

[AnnDroyd]

Thanks for that. Only problem now is that it wants a bak file, but ours is compressed into a zip file. If you open this zip file, windows won't allow you to extract the contents of it. Edited May 2, 2008 by AnnDroyd

[Jawloms]

Try using WinRAR. That will usually read it.