Since Last 3 Days I was trying to install MOSS 2007 on Server 2008. for testing purpose I selected to Use Microsoft Virtual PC and tried to Create new Virtual PC on my laptop which is running Vista Business.
I Created new Virtual PC and Installed Server 2008 Standard Edition over there. Second Step After Server Installation was to Install IIS on the server so I proceeded & Installed IIS over there. Third Step was to install SQL 2008 I installed current CTP version of SQL 2008. Till SQL installation everything went perfect and as expected and I thought that now it will be smooth ride for me to install SharePoint 2007 as I have done many installations of SharePoint 2007 during last few months. but I was proved wrong immediately the moment I clicked setup from my MOSS install files. What I get was following Screens.
It was asking for installation with SP1 and I knew that there is no Installation with SP1 Available. still I went to Microsoft.com and tried my luck but search result was as expected I got Separate SP1 Installation Package and MOSS installation after that I was discussing this issue with few of my friends and We found an option while Discussing and the option was to try to Extract SP1 files both WSS3.0 SP1 & Office Servers Pack SP1 to \updates folder of MOSS installation files. and then try to Install on Server 2008. It worked like anything so I decided to write this article on my live space so that my other friends gets benefited.
After Installation using SQL 2008 instead of SQL 2005 was nothing different it was all same and I was able to do that without any issues.
I hope that Microsoft will come up with MOSS installation with SP1 soon so that people don't need to do manual extraction of .exe and merge them with MOSS install files but till then You have to use the method to extract the install files. If you have ISO image of SP1 then you might not need to Extract the files from exe as ISO image contains all the files in Extracted mode only.
Hope this information Helps....
Hiran Salvi
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