There was an unknown error applying the filestream settings. check the parameters are valid

Question

I am getting the following error while trying to configure FileStream in SQL server 2012.

There was an unknown error applying the filestream settings. check the parameters are valid. (0x80041008)

I am configuring it using SQL server configuration manager.

Where as I am able to setup it for SQL server 2008 R2.

Answer 1

I had this same problem just yesterday.

In my case it was because I had a 64-bit Windows and a 32-Bit SQL Server.

You do not see the exact error, but if you try to do it with T-SQL, then the proper error comes up in SQL, telling you something about "WOW64" not supporting filestream.

I just uninstalled and installed the right bit version of SQL, and all worked 100% again.

Answer 2

In my case the problem I was running the SQL Server 2014 configuration manager. While this usually shouldn't cause problems, in my case it did. Configuring FILESTREAM using the SQL Server 2012 configuration manager worked.

If it still doesn't work, make sure you're up-to-date. SQL Server 2012 has received quite a lot of patches (SP2, SP3, and some updates).

Answer 3

TL;DR

I simply installed Service pack 2 (SP2) patch of SQL Server 2008 R2 and everything started working for me.

Read on if you want to know more. Configuration wise my box was all correct and the file stream feature should have been working on my default instance of SQL Server 2008 R2. Here are my box details:

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultitmate SP1 (64 Bit)
SQL Server Version: SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1

On SQL Server if I run this query select @@version it was returning following details:

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM) - 10.50.1600.1 (X64) Apr 2 2010 15:48:46 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1)

Whenever I opened SQL Server 2008 Configuration manager I will face this issue. Luckily I also had SQL Server 2014 installed on my machine. So I tried enabling File Stream feature from configuration manager GUI of SQL Server 2014 but it started giving error mentioned in current post.

I simply installed Service pack 2 (SP2) patch of SQL Server 2008 R2 and everything started working for me. SQL Server Configuration manager for 2008 R2 also works fine and I'm able to enable File Stream feature also without any trouble. SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 can be downloaded from here.