Tag Archives: Sharepoint

Accessing the WID using SQL Management Express Studio

We were getting some errors appear in the event logs of a clients SBS server recently, all of which came down to a minor tweak that was needed to be made to the Windows Internal Database.

Windows Internal Database corruption

We were asked to look at a server recently that was reporting problems with the WID (Windows Internal Database) not starting. This is also known as Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition or SQL Server Embedded. The SQL Server instance used by Windows Sharepoint Services was reporting some errors and in this case wouldn’t start.