If your version of ListManager includes MSDE, you won't need to worry about preparing your database or connecting ListManager to it--the ListManager installer takes care of that for you.
Do not use Terminal Services to install the MSDE version of ListManager remotely. The MSDE version of ListManager cannot be installed successfully using Terminal Services.
You may encounter difficulties using MSDE and ListManager if you have previously installed Microsoft SQL
server client tools on the machine that is to run ListManager. If you have, you'll see the following
warning message from the installer:
Warning: It appears that you have (or have had) a version of Microsoft SQL Server installed that conflicts
with the bundled server.
Do you want to use ListManager for Microsoft SQL Server instead? That is a different installer.
If you're sure you want to use the bundled MSDE database server, you should uninstall Microsoft SQL
Server software if you find that you're having problems with MSDE.
Notes on MSDE server limitations
There is a 2 GB limit to the total size of the MSDE database. If you are upgrading from ListManager 4.x, you should calculate the total size of your db directory to see if you can use MSDE.
The optimal number of database connections for MSDE is 8.
More information about maintaining MSDE may be found in Database Maintenance.