My words: It is recommended that you install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007 on all of your front-end servers before you configure Office SharePoint Server 2007 services and create sites. If you want to build a minimal server farm configuration, and incrementally add front-end servers to expand the farm, you can install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a single front-end server and configure the front-end server as both a Web server and an application server. Regardless how many front-end servers you have in your server farm, you must have SQL Server running on at least one back-end database server before you install Office SharePoint Server 2007 on your front-end servers.
Run Officeserver.exe, on one of your front-end or application Server and you will be prompted by an error:
And after visiting the knowledge base article 962935 found here, to your surprise the workaround mentioned there applies only if you are upgrading from Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1 to R2. But we have a fresh installation of Windows 2008 R2 and we never upgraded from a prior edition didn’t we or did we, well that doesn’t matter here as we already have a problem in front of us.
So what’s the error and how do we get past it and have a MOSS 2007 farm up and running on our newly installed Windows 2008 R2 Server.
Things you will need:
After you have downloaded the above files or you already have those we can start the slip streaming process:
OfficeServer.exe /extract:C:\SP2007x64 [Note: There is no space after /extract switch].
After the Service Packs are extracted, browse to the updates folder in my case C:\SP2007x64\Updates it will be filled with multiple install files.
As you are already in the Updates folder delete the wsssetup.dll as having both the srvsetup.dll & wsssetup.dll is not supported. Else only WSS SP2 will be installed.
So this is important delete wsssetup.dll from Updates folder.
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