Error when installing MOSS via Remote Desktop

Hi,

I small post to avoid you to lose your time.

If you get this error message when you try to install MOSS on a virtual machine via Remote desktop with local disk enable

"Microsoft sharepoint Server 2007 encountered an error during setup ",

it is because you cann't install MOSS from the local disk mapped as \\tsclient\c:\xxx

I used finally Virtual PC and map my local drive as X:\...

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2009
    You have a couple other options, too, to replace the UNC path with a drive letter, if you don't want to use Virtual PC directory sharing. For example, if using Remote Desktop with local disk sharing enabled, you could use: net use X: \tsclientc Or, you could use the administrative share: net use X: <machineName>c$