MOSS SharePoint 2007 on Server 2008 R2 – Microsoft KB 962935

When you are installing MOSS SharePoint 2007  on a Windows 2008 R2 server, you may receive an error to look up Microsoft KB 962935

The possible cause is because you are installing MOSS2007 with SP 1 on a Windows 2008 R2 server.

To overcome this, you have two options:

1. Slip stream – extract and update your install with MOSS 2007 SP 2
– Extract OfficeServerwithSP1.exe by executing  “OfficeServerwithSP1.exe /extract:C:\MOSS\”
– Extract officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us by executing  “officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us /extract:C:\MOSSsp2\”
– Copying all files from “C:\MOSSsp2\” to “C:\MOSS\Updates\”

2. Download MOSS 2007 with SP2
– For 32bit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2E6E5A9C-EBF6-4F7F-8467-F4DE6BD6B831&displaylang=en

– For 64bit
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3015FDE4-85F6-4CBC-812D-55701FBFB563&displaylang=en