Cannot create a new database. The operation has been rolled back. Please make
sure the database service is running.

I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to get BCM for
Outlook 2007 Admin tool to create its database on a Windows 2003 Standard
Edition Server w SP 2 and all windows updates using SQL Server Express 2005 -
also patched to the latest level.

I have been able to find references to people who are having the same issue,
just have not been able to find a solution.

I have removed SQL Express and re-installed it with the istance name of
MSSMLBIZ. I have made sure that TCP is enables and set to port 5356 - there
is no firewall blocking the port. All services are running, and have been
restarted numerous times. The event log logs no errors when the BCM admin
tool fails and I can find no BCM log that tells me why it thinks it is
failing and rolling back. I can create a database using Managment Studio
Express with no problem at all.

I've looked for some sort of step by step instructions that I should be
following, but I've found nothing. I would have thrown in the towel a long
time ago, but I actually told my client that they can use this system after
verifying that they could run it from a server based database.

Does anyone know how to get this thing to work?