The Problem: Cannot installed Azure CTP without SQL Express 2005 or 2008 The other day I tried to install Azure CTP on my machine but during the install got a fatal error: “The SQL Server instance ‘.SQLEXPRESS’ could not be found. Please verify that SQL Express is installed and running” was the message as seen above and it stopped the installer in its tracks. I quickly realized I must have missed a dependency so I looked in the read-me (located in C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.0\RelNotes.htm) file and sure enough here was...