How to enable Ad Hoc Distributed Queries

Question

When I run a query with OPENROWSET in SQL Server 2000 it works.

But the same query in SQL Server 2008 generates the following error:

Answer 1

The following command may help you..

EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
RECONFIGURE
GO
EXEC sp_configure 'ad hoc distributed queries', 1
RECONFIGURE
GO