no offense meant but i have not ever read such a load of crap...
last december (2010) i installed ADNM on a Windows 2008 R2 server with a dedicated database server running Windows 2008 R2 and MS SQL 2008 R2.
I installed the database instance i wanted to use for Avast with mixed mode security since this is required for ADNM, ADNM doesnt handle SSPI (windows authentication).
I had not have to delete files
AMS tool runs perfectly the only thing is that even if you are logged in on the server using an account with administrative rights, you need to start AMS tool in elevated mode (runas administrator). This would have probably saved this guys time and effort...
and the guy explained btw that it was an installation of SQL so it was not loaded on the server yet
BUT if it had been already then you had to change things....
he makes the whole a confusing posting by talking about situations that are non-excistant and handled wrongly by him if they excisted.