You've got an error when installing Sharepoint Search on your shiny new Windows 2008 server. The message is a bit imprecise and the event viewer log shows as
"The application (Office SharePoint Server 2007, from vendor Microsoft) was hard-blocked and raised the following: You must install Office SharePoint Server 2007 with the most recent service pack. Office SharePoint Server 2007 without service packs has a known compatibility issue with this version of Windows."
Windows 2008 Server blocks the install of the Sharepoint 2007 Search application as it is not compatible with Server 2008 without Sharepoint SP1.
What this means, despite appearing otherwise, is not that Sharepoint needs to be installed with the SP1 (which it is anyway) but that the installer for Sharepoint Search does not include the SP1 files and is therefore incompatible.
The process to get around this is to download both SP1 for Sharepoint WSS and MOSS.
wssv3sp1-kb936988-x64-fullfile-en-us
officeserver2007sp1-kb936984-x64-fullfile-en-us
Then extract both of these to the search_install\upgrades directory where the search_install is the name of the install directory. Note that there are no duplicate files.
i.e. C:\Install\MOSS-Search-2007-x64\Upgrades
This provides the installer with the SP’s and allows it to proceed when you run it again.
1 comment:
This work-around sounds like what I am looking for. The only problem is that when I run wssv3sp1-kb936988-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe or officeserver2007sp1-kb936984-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe it says "There are no products affected by this package installed on this system" and I am not given an option to extract the files.
Joe
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