Office Sharepoint Server 2007 Blocked due to compatibility issues

When trying to install Office Sharepoint Server 2007 onto Windows 2008 R2 x64 you get the following error dialogue:

This program is blocked due to compatibility issues.

Program: Office Sharepoint Server 2007 – Please read Microsoft Knowledge Base article: 962935

Unfortunatly a quick search of the Microsoft site doesn’t yield this KB. If someone can find it please let me know and I’ll put a footnote to this post.

To fix this you are going to have to slipstream the Office Sharepoint Server 2007 SP2 into the CD or install files you are using.

1. Copy the Sharepoint CD to a folder on the Computer.

2. Download the releavant Service Pack 2 for the architecture you are using (64 bit in this case) from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b7816d90-5fc6-4347-89b0-a80deb27a082&displaylang=en

3. Open a command prompt to the folder with the Service Pack 2 in it and type in the command: officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:c:\users\Administrator\Desktop\Sharepoint\x64\Updates

The path you extract to will most likly different depending on where you extracted the CD.

Note: According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261890.aspx you are supposed to delete a dll called Wsssetup.dll but I didn’t have this file in my updates folder or any other folder within the CD source so I ignored this step.

From here you should now be able to run the setup.exe from the root of your installation folder.

This product requires ASP.NET v2.0 to be set to ‘Allow’ in the list of Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server Extensions.

When trying to install Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 you receive the following error:

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Setup Errors
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Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s):
This product requires ASP.NET v2.0 to be set to ‘Allow’ in the list of Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server Extensions. If it is not available in the list, re-install ASP.NET v2.0.
Correct the issue(s) listed above and re-run setup.

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OK
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In my case the .Net Framework was installed but it wasn’t in the Web Services Extensions list. I’m assuming this is because I installed IIS after the .NET framework.

To fix this error you will need to open up a command prompt window and change your directory to “C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727″ and run the command “aspnet_regiis.exe -i” as shown below.

After this command completes successfully you will need to open up IIS Manager and go to Web Service Extensions and mark “ASP .NET v2.0.50727″ as Allowed if it isnt already.