Installing SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows 2008
Posted November 5th, 2008 by Matt ShadboltFirstly, the setup.exe will not run if you are using an installer that doesn’t included Service Pack 1 – even if you 2008 server is fully patched. You will receive an error stating that there are known incompatibility issues with SharePoint Server 2007 and this version of Windows Server. To fix this you need to install SharePoint with the SP1 files included.
Visit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD59175C-AD6A-4027-8C2F-DB25322F791B&displaylang=en and download the officeserver2007sp1-kb936984-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe file. (Obviously you will need the x64 file if you are running a 64-bit OS)
Place the file into the Updates folder of the SharePoint 2007 installation path (in my case C:\Server12\x86\Updates\). Now unpack the files contents by running a command line and browsing to the directory. Type:
officeserver2007sp1-kb936984-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract
You will then be prompted for an extract path. Browse to the Updates folder mentioned earlier and unpack the contents into that directory. Basically the original setup.exe file will apply any patches that it can find in that Updates folder.
Now run the original setup.exe file and your installation will run smoothly.
Tags: officeserver2007sp1-kb936984-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe, SharePoint, SharePoint Server 2007, SP1
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