Error in prepare phase SHDINST_DB_PREP on SQL 20005.

Question

Dear All,
We are currently in the Prepare phase of the upgrade of our SAP systems and have come up against the following security issue.
We are running upgrades to ERP2005. The current database version is SQL Server 2005 with Windows 2003 SP1 where the CHECK_POLICY option is activated by default.
During the SHDINST_DB_PREP phase of prepare the system was unable to create the shadow user because the password was not complex enough.
Apparently the CHECK_POLICY option of SQL Server 2005 is not explicitly deactivated in the upgrade script.
We do not want to disable our Windows password policies but would like to know how to include the CHECK_POLICY option in the scripts for this phases so that we can create the user.
Has anyone experienced this problem and know of a solution??
I have already posted a message to SAP about this issue and am still awaiting a response
Owen.

Answer 1

This issue has been resolved:
For those of you who might be confronted with this issue: this is how its done:
Open the file for msstemps.mss in the directory put\bin.
Replac the lines in this file
if (not exists(select name from syslogins where name = '<shadow>'))
exec sp_addlogin '<shadow>', '<password>', '<db>'
through following lines
if ((@@microsoftversion / 65536) / 256 = 9)
begin
if not exists (select * from master.dbo.syslogins where name =
'<shadow>')
create login <shadow> with
password = '<password>',
default_database = <db>,
check_expiration = off,
check_policy = off
end
else begin
if (not exists(select name from syslogins where name = '<shadow>'))
exec sp_addlogin '<shadow>', '<password>', '<db>'
save the file and repeat the phase.
SAP is aware of this issue and wille be releasing a fix for this shortly.