We have Single Server MOSS 2007 SP2 farm with DBA managed database server. We have different web applications running and deployed several solutions (SharePoint Learning Kit, Facet Search, workflow extensions, new themes) in the farm. Recently we wanted to scale out our farm by adding one WFE and one indexing server. I have installed MOSS 2007 SP2 slipstream in the C drive (default location) of both the new servers. Then before running the SharePoint Product & Technology Configuration Wizard I uninstalled MOSS, restated the servers and reinstalled MOSS 2007 SP2 slipstream in D drive. I didn't add farm administrators group to the local administrator group of the new servers but I added my own account which is a member of farm administrator group to local administrator group. I didn't add Central Admin Webapp pool identity account (which is a service account) to the local administrator group either. But this service account as well as farm administrators group account has dbcreator & securityadmin privileges in the sql server, both the accounts are also dbowner of the config database. I have also noticed few updates and hotfixes of Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 SP2, 3.0 SP2 & 3.5 SP1 are missing in the new servers but they are installed in existing SharePoint server. In this circumstance when I ran the Product & Technology Configuration Wizard I got configuration failed message in the step 2 with "Configuration Database: Access Denied" message in Event log. In Add/Remove programs of existing and both the new servers I have found MOSS 2007 SP2 64 bit with KB971620 installed with only one difference between existing and new servers: in existing server Office Server 2007 trial is displayed but in the new servers Office Server 2007 is found. I'm looking for your help. Regards, SH Pavel

for the configuration Database error access denied, i recommend you use the same service account as you have on your existing server.Otherwise things become more complicated and i am not sure, even with setup MOSS with different service account, about the stability of the MOSS.So strongly recommend use the same service account as you have on your existing one. 2nd thing make sure you the have the right version of the MOSS on your new server as you have on the existing server, even after connecting the configdb your Config wizard again failed. hope this will help thanks -wsi am at SharePoint administrator

Hi WS, Thanks for your reply. Ours setup user account is a group account and my user account is a member of that group account. Central Admin Webapp Pool identity account is a service account and I have used the same service account to connect with config db. Does this service account needs to be member of local administrator group? In the control pannel I have found the same info for MOSS installation, same KB is installed.

Hi, You must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group and the Administrators group on the local server computer to add a Web server to a farm. For more information, please refer to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261752(office.12).aspx If it is not the issue, could you please tell me the detailed error message in the Event log. Let me know the result.Xue-Mei Chang