Getting replication to work on Windows 2003 Server X64 environment using SQL 2000

I have a mobile device application using mobile sql 2005 replicating with sql 2000 in a x86 environment. This works fine!

I'm having issues getting this to work under Windows Server 2003 X64.

I've got all the components installed under the X64 environment including CLR 2.0 X64 and the mobile sql tools. the but when I run the Configure Web Synchronization Wizard I get the following error. SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition Server Tools were not found on the IIS server. Run the SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition Server Tools installer....

My question is: Were do I get the X64 version of these tools?

sqlce30setupen.msi
sql2Ken@.P4.msi

The SQL environment is X86 as follows: SQL2000 SP4

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2039 (Intel X86) May 3 2005 23:18:38 Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 1)

Any help would be much appreciated!

I am sorry here. Please read http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912430 for more details. To conclude, SQL Mobile server tools do not work on 64-bit. So, the solution for you in this case is that have IIS box and SQL Server box separately. SQL Server in your case would be 64-bit and IIS would be 32-bit. Let me know if you need more details.

Thanks,

Laxmi Narsimha Rao ORUGANTI, MSFT, SQL Mobile, Microsoft Corporation

|||Is there any prospect of Microsoft re-compiling these toools to work under x64 environment?|||

We are really sorry for that. It is not just compiling but a lot more when comes to making the code work for both 32-bit and 64-bit. Is there any problem in the proposed solution. I am really interested to know and solve any issue you may face.

Thanks,

Laxmi Narsimha Rao ORUGANTI, MSFT, SQL Mobile, Microsoft Corporation

|||The only other option open to me at this point is placing the tools on a x86 machine running sharepoint server, I believe that this may also be a challenge?|||

I am wondering why you suddenly require share point here! May be I did not understand your question. But, from replication perspective you donot need Microsoft Share Point software.

Thanks,

Laxmi Narsimha Rao ORUGANTI, MSFT, SQL Ev, Microsoft Corporation