When installing OpsMgr on SQL 2008 R2 the installation will not find the SQL instance and give the following error: Microsoft SQL Server is required. Please see details

To go around this requirement, use the DBCreateWizard.exe that you find on the OpsMgr media \SupportTools<architecture>\DBCreateWizard.exe

Observe that this is NOT TESTED OR SUPPORTED by Microsoft!!!

And that one will find the instance.

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Observe that this is NOT TESTED OR SUPPORTED by Microsoft!!!