Danish Hussain

Windows 2008 does not support installation of Share point Server 2007 without Office/WSS Service pack 1. Therefore when you try to install share point setup on Windows 2008 machine it will give you an error that service pack is required to run this installation. In order to run installation on windows 2008 machine you need to perform following set of activities. First download WSS Service Pack 1 and Office Sharepoint Server 2007 Service Pak 1 from Microsoft site. Copy all files from installation CD to local disk. Open command prompt and navigate to folder where you have downloaded service pack1 for WSS and Office server and run following commands wssv3sp1-kb936988-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:C:\WSSSP1 officeserver2007sp1-kb936984-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:C:\MOSSSP1 Copy all files you extracted in last step i.e. C:\WSSP1 and C:\MOSSSP1 to Updates folder of Sharepoint installation (at local disk) Now run sharepoint setup from your installation files in your hardisk. It should...

When you administrator your MOSS protal on Windows 2008 you may notice an lots of strange issues. One of them is that create or extend web application will be hidden and not available on central administration site. This is due to security restriction in windows 2008. You need to start Internet explorer as an administrator in order to access several option including option for creating and extending application.

I have deployed my system developed on 32 bit to 64 bit production environment and was continuously getting bad image exception. After a lot of drill down I found that the issue was due to deployment of custom web parts developed for share point site. The issue was that I was referencing sharepoint 32 bit dll from my visual studios for accessing moss object model. Issue get resolved after replacing dll at production environment from (\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\ISAPI). Though the problem is resolved but as I have compiled custom web part with 32bit dll I still thing compilation with 64bit will be better option this will lead to an issue that development for 64 bit require 64bit machine.