Re: Empty company web folder after Intranet reinstall

From: EricS (EricS_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:39:03 -0800

Hello SG,
Well, I'm at a total loss now. A fresh install of the OS went fine...no
problems and I let it run a few days just to verify stability. I then ran the
SBS 03 setup, and sure enough the company web folder was totally empty when
done. Here is a break down of how I set everything up:
1) Installed OS. During setup did quick NTFS format on brand new SATA drive.
2) Installed latest device drivers for all devices (using ABIT ICG-7 board
with Intel 875 chipset and 1GB DDR 400). Intel P4 HT CPU.
3) Ran Windows Update and installed everything it found, with no problems.
4) After letting it run a few days no problem, ran SBS 03 setup. At the end
it reported that the intranet component install failed because of a problem
creating groups in active directory. Suggestion was to add test disttibution
group in active directory and rerun setup. I had no trouble adding the test
group, and then I reran setup. No errors that time, but companyweb is still
empty.
If you see something wrong with my sequence of steps, let me know...like
maybe I shouldn't be doing Windows Update before running SBS Setup?

"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" wrote:

> The KB does not reference SQL in any way and note: I'm talking SQL Server
> 2000, not msde.
>
> Explicitly:
> I did not remove MS Sharepoint Administration.
> I did not remove MSSharePointAppPool.
>
> The KB article defines the correct procedure if you have not upgraded the
> sharepoint instance to SQL Server.
>
> NOTE: There is one additional step I performed before starting the
> reinstall. I restarted the server. IMHO many problems occur because people
> (even MS people) don't believe restarts are necessary. I've seen a man I
> consider technically more capable than I fight with a problem for several
> hours with me saying 'Will you just please restart the box' and he saying
> 'it's not necessary', after restart the failing procedure worked.
>
> > to the letter. I recall the steps mention removing sharepoint services,
> > and
> > sql server sharepoint, but they also say not to remove the sharepoint
> > administration. It seems to me that completely removing sql server would
> > remove the sharepoint admin, but if removing it is what worked for you,
> > then
> > KB article 829114 is wrong and it's no wonder that so many people can't
> > get
> > company web to work.
>
>
>

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