If you are trying to run the new Profiler that ships with SQL 2005, Feb CTP and above on Windows 2003 (Currently I am running the April CTP and the problem exists there too), you may have some problems. Usually there are no error messages, it just runs and sits in the task manager, but no UI appears. Nor does it run correctly from the command line. Nothing really happens.
The problem seems to be due to the new profiler exe being signed. The way to get it to run is to install the Windows 2003 SP1.
More information about this problem is available here.


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