Ok, I typically think of myself as a fairly astute admin who can usually head off "gotchas" at the pass. However, time after time I run into ones that become a major time suck. Today's challenge was the simple task of installing MOSS on a newly created Hyp-V machine with a fresh install of Windward Server 2008 R2. R2 is great and it provides a lot of the UI enhancements that Windows 7 offers so that is why it is now the standard for any new servers I need to create.
Back to MOSS. The stock download ISO from MSDN should work, or at least that is what I thought. It turns out Server 2008 R2 is very picky about what it lets install on the system. The main problem is the bootstrapper launches and R2 will not let it proceed because the installer does not have access to the latest service packs and updates. The stock ISO from MSDN contains SP1 but this is not good enough to get past R2's requirements. You have to download WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 service packs and updates and then extract them over the installers "updates" directory to get things going. This basically slipstreams in SP2 to the SharePoint install. There is a link to the SharePoint Team's blog that walks you through this located HERE.
Everything looks pretty good from the SharePoint Team's blog entry excepted a few things I noticed.
- First if you have a fresh OS install you have to add the .NET 3.5 feature. Intuitive in hindsight but when you are trying to get and install done fast, easily overlooked.
- Second, you need to follow the extra steps and grab the special hotfixes they reference in the article and slipstream them in otherwise you will not get the bootstrapper to go forward.
How to slipstream SP2 for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 into the original package.
1) Make sure you add the .NET 3.5 feature to your server before you start. This will install IIS as well
2) Mount the MSDN ISO image using an extraction program (I used WinRAR). Extract all files to a directory on your target machine you wish to install SharePoint.
3) Delete all files from the PATH_TO_EXTRACTED_MEDIA/x64/Updates folder. These are the stock updates included in the ISO and we are going to update these.
3) Follow the directions in the article below. Basically run each .EXE file in the /Updates folder and extract it using the /extract:PATH_TO_UPDATES_FOLDER /quiet command.
4) delete wsssetup.dll from the PATH_TO_EXTRACTED_MEDIA/x64/Updates folder
5) Then run the setup.exe file in the PATH_TO_EXTRACTED_MEDIA/x64 folder
6) The installer will complain that SQL Express does not have SP3 applied in the installer. Just ignore the error, continue and update it later when the installer is done.
A special thanks to the SharePoint Team Blog for getting me started on this but these few pieces of information will get you a complete install.
Also if you are in need a reporting solution that you want to drop into SharePoint checkout Windward Reports product called the Windward Arrow 3.0
well I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles...=) for me it's not actually a big issue if installing MOSS 2007 isn't that very easy anyway, after you installed it, it's worth the hard-work. I am not that very knowledgeable when it comes to that so i really really studied this one by having an online SharePoint Training on http://www.solartechnj.com/sch_microsoft_sharepoint_training_moss.asp .....
Posted by: microtech | 05/01/2010 at 01:35 PM