Visual Studio Build Fails on Configuring SQL Server 2005

Question

I'm trying to build a setup project in Visual Studio 2005, and it is failing every time, after opening a dialog box labeled Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools and configuring for a few minutes. The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools dialog then launches a dialog with the text Failure creating local group SQLServer2005NotificationServices$COMPUTER_NAME. I suspect this failure is because I'm not currently local admin on my machine (a situation I hope will be rectified rapidly), but I don't see why I need to configure MS SQL 2005, as my project does not use it, and in fact has no DB connectivity. How can I get past this step to a successful build?

Related:

• Visual studio configures SQL 2008 on every build
• Visual Studio Setup and Deployment build fails with no errors

Update: Got my admin back, but this is still taking up time to run, and I'd still like to be rid of it.

Answer 1

I found something about it on Microsoft Connect. Seems like it's a bug. In the reply they linked to a knowledge base article with some workarounds.