MOSS Compatibility Issue with Windows Server 2008

If trying to install MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 you will come across this error:



To resolve this issue, install the version of MOSS that has service pack 1 ( SP1 ) included. Without the slipstream install you will not be able to install MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008.

Tech Ed 2006 Retrospective, Windows Server 2008

It was still called longhorn back then, but essentially the same product.

So Tech Ed 2007 has just been and gone, which I sadly missed, but I'd like to share a little bit of belated news about last years festival.

One of the tidbits that the evangelists and gurus from Microsoft told us in Sydney was that apparently everything you can do in a GUI you will be able to do from the command line.

Take a moment to let that sink in.

Coming from a systems integration perspective, that is pretty great news. Some of the more recent projects I have been working on require some fairly complex deploy operations. SQL Server databases, DTS pacakges, various BizTalk artifacts, .NET assemblies to be gacked and lots of security settings. This has the potential to simplify things grandly.

If anyone has any thoughts on this please leave a comment.

Changes in Functionality from Windows Server 2003 with SP1 to Windows Server 2008

So Longhorn has a name and it Windows Server 2008. There is a document up at the Microsoft site now that has a description of all the changes from Server 2003 SP 1 to Server 2008. You can grab that here.