BizTalk 2004 installation guide on Virtual PC: Steps and Configuration issues

Installation steps: (After you have installed your Win2003 server)
1. Install SQL server 2000
2. Install SQL Server 2000 Analysis service.
3. Install SQL Server 2000 SP3
4. Install SQL Server 2000 SP3a (install all the 3 SPs available – for database, for analysis service & desktop-MSDE)
Pls. note that you need to unpack those service pack those and manually rerun by double clicking the setup.exe, or .bat or .msi file.
5. You can install SQL Server 2000 SP4 as well. But SP3a’s are critical, they must run.
6. Install Visual Studio 2003.
7. Install all the prerequisite of BizTalk Server 2004, they include, SQLXML3.0, MSXML(Ver 3.0 with SP5 and Ver 4.0 with SP2), Office XP Tools - Web Components (owc10.exe), etc.
8. If you have, install SQL KB articles – 838166, 875540.
9. Install BizTalk Server 2004
10. Install BizTalk Server 2004 SP1. (Extract and manually run – just make sure it ran)
11. Install BizTalk Server 2004 SP2. (Extract and manually run – just make sure it ran)
12. Configure.
Configuration issues:
1. While configuration, you may get stuck up in the BAM Database creation step in the Config Wizard (sorry for not capturing the screen-shot). This means, that your SQL Analysis Service is not running or not installed .
Check for the Analysis Service in program files – SQL Server – Analysis Service

You need to install SQL Analysis Service and also the SP3a’s. This will solve that particular issue.
2. You may see problem in WMI configuration steps in the config Wizard. The error messages could be as below:

And so on like this.
This basically means that the network account is not able to write something in C:\WINDOWS\TEMP folder.
Go ahead and give write permission on this folder for Network user and retry.
Before re-configuration, pls. un configure all the information you already did in your failed attempt. Use ConfigFramework.exe /u to un configure. Also, delete all the BizTalk related databases created in your SQL Server and SQL Analysis Server.
3. Once doing this, you might get error like below in WMI step in the config wizard:

This time you are clue less. L And after clicking Retry you see the message to un configure the BizTalk using ConfigFremework.exe /u

It is likely that you will continue to get this error even after you un configure it (ConfigFramework.exe /u) and also deleting all the BizTalk related databases that got created (in SQL Server as well as SQL Analysis Service) during the failed configurations.
Well, I don’t know how it happened, not got any clue from any web search. I could get rd of this problem by fully un installing and re installing the BizTalk servers.
a. Uninstall BizTalk Server SP2
b. Uninstall BizTalk Server SP1
c. Uninstall BizTalk Server
d. Reinstall BizTalk Server
e. Reinstall BizTalk Server SP1
f. Reinstall BizTalk Server SP2
And reconfigure. This time it should work. J All the best and Thanks for reading this ill-prepared doc. L