Adrian Spear

Office Sharepoint Server 2007 :: Installation Error and Solution

I have been installing/uninstalling and creating/deleting web applications galore the last few days and eventually the MOSS installation blew up on me. Re-installing MOSS after an uninstall the installer failed with error : The directory name was invalid. Further inspection of the install log revealed that the error occurred attempting to perform an iisreset. I uninstalled IIS and reinstalled it - reinstalled Asp.Net 2.0 (aspnet_regiis /i) and then removed/reinstalled WWF before re-running the MOSS installer - Bob's your uncle and Robert's your mother's brother - the installer succeeded. Hopefully you won't see the error but if you do - this is what fixed it for me!