I was trying to install install SharePoint 2007 onto Windows 2008 r2 and was getting a strange error referencing KB article 962935. Funny enough this article is not live yet so it left me a little unhappy. Apprarently Microsoft does not support the distributed SP1 installation package of SharePoint for this version of the OS. Turns out Jei Li posting on his msdn blog detailing how to go about creating a slipstreamed installation for SP2 on this server Click here for the article. Basically the steps are (pretty much word for word from Jei Li's blog):
- Install .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 in the features applet
- Copy the installtion media contents to a folder on the computer (c:\install)
- Download the WSS x64 SP package and the MOSS 2007 SP2 x64
- Delete everything inside Updates folder in the install folder you setup.
- Open a command prompt, change directory to the folder you put the downloaded patches, and run the following two commands:
- wssv3sp2-kb953338-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:[Path to installation bits]\Updates /quiet
- officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract: [Path to installation bits]\Updates /quiet
- Delete the wsssetup.dll filein the updates dir. This is a very important step so please don’t miss it.
- If you also need the Cumulative Updates to be applied when install SharePoint, download the latest Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update packages and extract them into Updates folder like step 4.
- Your slipstream build of SharePoint Server 2007 is done!
- Go and install it on your Windows Server 2008 R2 box, after the installation, the site version will show 12.0.0.6421 or possibly a higher version.
Please reference Jei Li's post for furthur instuctions. I only posted all the steps here because things have a mysterious way of dissappearing or not appearing at all on Microsofts site.
After doing all of this everything seems to be fine...seems to be 
Links
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261890.aspx
- http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/10/02/install-sharepoint-server-2007-on-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b7816d90-5fc6-4347-89b0-a80deb27a082
- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B&displaylang=en
