Installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008

Posted By: Matt Hester | Apr 25th, 2008 @ 7:37 AM | 22,053 Views | 11 Comments

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The other day I was building some new demo servers to showcase search capabilities with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS). During the process I decided to install MOSS on my brand new RTM copy of Windows 2008 Enterprise server. I had to, it was so new and shiny! Smiley

As some of you may know, I was headed down a one way street to a Program Compatibility Assistant error. So imagine my surprise when the error box on the right showed up. This product has compatibility issues, say what?

So I did a live search and found some excellent blogs from Ben Curry and Martin Kearn (BTW Martin I love Guinness too!). They had ran into the same issue on RC1 as I did and both provided great step-by-step instructions to solve the error, I provided their links are at the bottom of this post. In a nut shell, Windows Server 2008 is compatible with service pack 1 of both MOSS and WSS. So all you need to do is slipstream the SP1 bits into the MOSS setup files to avoid the error.

So why this post, well I wanted to show how straight forward this process is. So I created a quick screencast,which is about 8 minutes long. During the screencast, I show installation of the pre-requisites roles (IIS and .NET) for Windows Server 2008, and the error that is created prior to slipstreaming the files for the MOSS install. I then demonstrate how to extract and slipstream the MOSS and WSS SP1 files into the MOSS installation files. With the grand finale of kicking off the installation. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

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zubairdotnet

hi Matt,

Thanks for posting this, I followed your exact steps but when I run setup I'm told to goto http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945967 which says Windows Sharepoint Services SP1 is required prior to installing MOSS 2007, what's wrong ?

I also noticed that you didn't add Windows Sharepoint Services during your installation.

tigirry

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the screencast. I followed your exact steps and I got an error during the installation process. The error says that the MOSS setup has stopped working and I was given two options: check online for solution and close the program. I tried Advanced->Complete, Web Front End and Standalone and I can't still get it to install. I even tried with the trial version of MOSS 2007 that comes with SP1. I am running a brand new copy of Windows Server 2008 Standard edition. Have you encountered or heard of such problem before?

Nima

Hi ,
I have special thank to you for this useful post .

Wish you best of best
Nima

RaidDawg

zubairdotnet,

Thank you for watching the webcast, my only guess is that you had WSS installed prior to install MOSS. For my demo, I installed on a clean machine, with MOSS 2007 you do not need to install WSS first.

I hope that helps.

RaidDawg

tigirry,

I could not find anything on that error message unfortunately, have you been able to resolve the issue or if you could post a more specific error message, that may help.

Sorry I could not help more.