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Where did all the ODBC Drivers go from Windows Server 2008 64bit

Last edited by mvarre on January,05 2010microsoft, tech Add comments

So I’m in the process of moving all the sites leftover on my old 32bit Windows Server 2003 web servers running IIS6. I’m moving everything to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit.  I am pretty sure I’m going to end up choosing the Web Edition of Windows Server 2008.  So far it seems to do everything I need at a huge discount to Standard Edition.

I would have expected there to be no problems with most of them. I started out with a dinky little site that uses a small Microsoft Access Database.  This site uses a standard DSN to access the .mdb. I proceed to go to the Administrative Tools and open the ODBC Data Source Administrator window and add a new DSN for the .mdb and lo and behold I see the following nearly empty window:

odbcempty

<– This of course is no good! Where are all the other data drivers? Apparently all the regular ones we are used to seeing in 32bit Windows no longer exist as 64bit drivers.  The trick is to execute %windir%\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe.


odbcfull <– This will give you the ability to add the rest of the 32bit Data Sources such as Microsoft Access (.mdb).




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December 4th, 2009  
Tags: 32bit windows, 64bit windows, DSN, IIS, IIS7.5, microsoft, ODBC, web edition, web servers, Windows, Windows Server 2008

One Response to “Where did all the ODBC Drivers go from Windows Server 2008 64bit”

  1. Running 32bit applications on a 64bit IIS7.5 platform | vividly nonsensical
    December 4th, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    [...] properly in IIS 7.5 (Windows Server 2003 R2 64bit), the next issue didn’t occur much past my last post.  After creating my new Data Source (DSN), I opened up the migrated site and received the [...]


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