As part of our ongoing Sharepoint project, I've decided to go all modern - the base OS is 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and the database engine is 64 bit SQL Server 2008. However, as soon as you try installing Sharepoint Server 2007 with a vanilla disk, you'll run in to problems - 2008 R2 expects Sharepoint to be service packed up, and at the moment there's no media available with SP1 or SP2 embedded (in fact there's no media avaliable at all on the Volume Licensing site at all, just a note telling you that for the moment they'll ship you the physical media for free - WTF is going on at Redmond at the moment?)

Luckily, there is a pretty easy way to get around the problem.

• Copy your install disk to a hard drive
• Download Sharepoint Server 2007 SP2 here
• Run the following command from the command prompt (cd to the directory where your download is stored first): officeserver2007sp2-kb953334-x64-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract: [Location of files copied from installation disk]\Updates
• Run setup.exe from the copied installation media root

Job done