Comments on: Windows 2008 and SharePoint 2007 Don’t Play Nice http://www.coderetard.com/2008/05/09/windows-2008-and-sharepoint-2007-dont-play-nice/ Anything Geeky Goes! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:09:35 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bob http://www.coderetard.com/2008/05/09/windows-2008-and-sharepoint-2007-dont-play-nice/#comment-1124 Bob Mon, 19 May 2008 19:40:08 +0000 http://www.coderetard.com/?p=750#comment-1124 It turns out that SharePoint will install on Windows 2008 but only at SP1. What you have to do is create a Slipstream setup. You do this by copying the setup dvd to a disk directory, merging the service pack and then installing SharePoint. There is a good procedure here for doing it: http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2008/01/14/how-to-create-a-slipstream-installation-for-moss-with-sp1.aspx It turns out that SharePoint will install on Windows 2008 but only at SP1. What you have to do is create a Slipstream setup. You do this by copying the setup dvd to a disk directory, merging the service pack and then installing SharePoint. There is a good procedure here for doing it:

http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2008/01/14/how-to-create-a-slipstream-installation-for-moss-with-sp1.aspx

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