BizTalk 2010 BAM installation

Creating a new virtual machine for a BizTalk 2010 development environment.

Following Sandro Pereira's series of blog posts, starting at ...
http://sandroaspbiztalkblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/biztalk-2010-installation-and-configuration-enable-internet-information-services-part-1/

Got to the stage of installing BizTalk, but I got an error with the BAM Tools stage ...

Lots of searching but not much help out there, but finally reading a post by The Connected Enterprise about BAM Tools installation woes offered a possible solution ...

Seems having SharePoint Foundation installed, includes the SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting plugin. This seems to remove the SQL Server 2005 SMO, which looks to be used in the BAM configuration.

Solution was to uninstall the SQL Reporting, reinstall the 2005 SMO and ... SUCCESS, the BAM Tools install worked a treat.

I also went through the configuration in the "Advanced" mode, i.e. doing each step and applying configuration one at a time, rather than "Basic" running through them all in one go.

PS. but still can't get the SharePoint adapter to configure  :-(

However Life Runs On Code looks to have the solution !!