Feb
29
2008
You would think that the latest edition of SharePoint 2007 could be deployed without issue on the Released Server 2008. The short answer...Nope. But not to fear...there is a way...
Start by making sure that you have IIS 7.0 installed and running...without it, well there is no SharePoint. In short make sure the following is in place...
From Control Panel, Programs and Features, Select 'Turn Windows Features On or Off' Next, Under 'Server Manager, Features' Select '.NET Framework 3.0 Features'. When asked to install the IIS7 role, select yes. Under IIS7 'Security', be sure to select the authentication you want, i.e. Basic, NTLM, Kerberos, etc.
- This comes from http://mindsharpblogs.com/ben/archive/2007/12/16/3837.aspx - Please feel free to continue to read Ben Curry's blog (I found it a bit confusing).
Next get your WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 install discs or ISO files ready. You will need to make a couple of directories.
c:\wsssp1 - for the WSS 3.0 bits and c:\sp2007sp1 for the SharePoint 2007 bits.
Copy the WSS 3.0 install files from the disc or iso into the c:\wsssp1
Copy the SharePoint2007 install files from the disc or iso into the c:\sp2007sp1
(now depending on if you use 32bit -x86 or 64bit -x64 copy only that directory. You really don't need to copy everything)
So, at this point you have WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 installs. Now you need to put the SP1 in place for both of these. If you try to install these before you get the sp1 updates in place, server 2008 will give you a nasty message about not allowing you to install.
Now you need to download the SP1 for WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007. The SharePoint folks have a great blog entry to get you started:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/12/11/announcing-the-release-of-wss-3-0-sp1-and-office-sharepoint-server-2007-sp1.aspx
To get the SP1 for WSS 3.0:
You can download the complete WSS 3.0 with SP1 from:
Go to: Link to WSS 3.0 with SP1
Go to: Link to WSS 3.0 SP1 Updates - make sure you get the right version 32bit or 64bit.
Next, you need to get the SP1 for SharePoint 2007.
Go to: Link to SharePoint 2007 SP1
Make sure you get the right one...both 32bit (x86) and 64bit (x64) are available at the link above. The filename tells you which is which.
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Now, you need to extract the SP1 for WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007. Make another set of directories.
c:\wss for WSS 3.0
c:\ssp for SharePoint 2007
Now you can do the extract of SP1 files:
Extract the SharePoint files:
wssv3sp1-kb936988-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:c:\ssp -this will put the SharePoint 2007 SP files in the c:\ssp directory
or wssv3sp1-kb936988-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:c:\ssp for the 32bit version.
Extract the WSS 3.0 files:
wssv3sp1-kb936988-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:c:\wss -this will put the WSS 3.0 SP files in the c:\wss directory
or wssv3sp1-kb936988-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:c:\wss for the 32bit version.
At this point you should have everything to put together and get WSS 3.0 SP1 and SharePoint 2007 SP1 installed.
Copy all of the files from c:\wss (or the place where you extracted the WSS 3.0 SP1) to c:\sp2007sp1\Updates
Copy all of the files from c:\ssp (or the place where you extracted the SharePoint SP1) to c:\sp2007sp1\Updates
Now install WSS 3.0 SP1 - if you already have WSS 3.0 installed then just run the SP1 for WSS 3.0. Just make sure that WSS 3.0 is installed first.
Now you are ready to install SharePoint 2007 SP1 - run the setup from c:\sp2007sp1. You will need your product code for SharePoint2007. At this point SharePoint 2007 will install without problem. A good place to go for more information is the SharePoint Team blog SharePoint Team Blog
Have Fun,
~cse