Remote Blob Storage - Installation help

Question

My DBA has configured our SharePoint SQL instance for file streaming, and verified all of the settings are correct. I have been following Todd Klindts post on configuring RBS, and everything seems fine until i get to enabling RBS.

http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=174

The RBS client was downloaded from the Microsoft SQL Server 2008R2 feature pack site http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16978

The install command for the RBS client

msiexec /qn /lvx* rbs_install_log.txt /i RBS.msi TRUSTSERVERCERTIFICATE=true      
FILEGROUP=PRIMARY DBNAME=”WSS_Content_Blob” DBINSTANCE=”9904\sharepoint”  
FILESTREAMFILEGROUP=RBSFilestreamProvider FILESTREAMSTORENAME=FilestreamProvider

The command to enable RBS

PS C:\Users\white2> $cdb = Get-SPContentDatabase wss_content_blob
PS C:\Users\white2> $rbss = $cdb.RemoteBlobStorageSettings
PS C:\Users\white2> $rbss.Installed()
False
PS C:\Users\white2> $rbss.Enable()
Exception calling "Enable" with "0" argument(s): "SQL remote blob storage must
be installed on each web front end server and on the content database before it
may be used."
At line:1 char:13
+ $rbss.Enable <<<< ()
+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

Any help would be great

thanks, Jason

Answer 1

I have discovered that running the msiexec via command prompt didn't work. I double clicked on it and ran through the wizard, worked great after that!