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Posted on: August 14, 2008

Installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 - Part 1: Overview

This week I had some time to play with the newly released SQL Server 2008 and a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) installation. The following articles describe how to set :

Part 1: Overview
Part 2: Installing Active Directory
Part 3: Domain Accounts
Part 4: Installing and configuring SQL Server 2008
Part 5: Installing IIS7
Part 6: Installing MOSS 2007
Part 7: Configuring MOSS 2007
Part 8: Pop3, SMTP, Outlook

Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 support (Update)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 as well as Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 support Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 as it is written at the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog.

Windows SharePoint Service 3.0: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288751.aspx
Office SharePoint Server 2007: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx

Server farm

I tried to create a server farm containing a SQL Server 2008 and a MOSS 2007. The SQL Server acts as a PDC and the MOSS 2007 server is used as a web server and an application server.

Installing Windows Server 2008 as a Hyper-V virtual image

For my testing environment I installed 2 Windows Server 2008 x64 Enterprise Edition virtual images using Hyper-V. After the installation process I had to install a newer version of the integration components.

After that I applied all new updates using Windows Update.

Please take a look at Part 2: Installing Active Directory.

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8/21/2008 12:47:42 AM #

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8/28/2008 3:05:25 AM #

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11/16/2008 8:58:55 PM #

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12/4/2008 4:56:38 PM #

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12/28/2008 4:27:00 PM #

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12/30/2008 6:52:02 PM #

What are the differences installing the server as a member server and not as
a Domain Controller.

Mike Martinez Reply

2/4/2009 1:30:48 AM #

Excellent article. Very helpful. Thanks heaps.

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2/26/2009 1:07:11 AM #

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4/19/2009 6:41:45 PM #

Hi Dubravko,

thank you for the information about Forefront and IIS7...

Andreas

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9/14/2009 9:53:46 PM #

Were you able to install MOSS 2007 on W2k8 R2? I have a W2k8 R2
that I want to use for MOSS 2007.

abrash alam Reply

9/15/2009 7:36:09 PM #

I haven't tried to install MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2.

I know that we need to apply SP2 in order to use SharePoint 2007 with Server 2008 R2. You can create this using slipstream... But I don't know if SharePoint will work without any errors.

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9/23/2009 5:43:36 PM #

I had some trouble with the connection error. For me the solution was to start the SQl browser service, and set it to auto... I also had to put the instance name and server name "SQL_server\SQL_Instance"

Zack Paradise Reply

10/10/2009 11:28:50 AM #

Just now I'm start to read this article because I failed to install MOSS 2007 on Win 2008. I will and the result later

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10/29/2009 4:11:17 PM #

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11/17/2009 11:12:55 PM #

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