Does anybody know how to solve an issue with installation of SharePointServer 2007 or WSS 2007 on Windows 2003 Enterprise SP1 environment (have alreadyinstalled .NET 3.0, Sql Express 2005) Both are installed, but failed when wizard config services and other stuff. Step 7 of "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard" failswith the error:- Failed to provision the SharePoint Central Administration Web ApplicationAn exception of type System.ArgumentException was thrown.Additional exception information: Absolure path information is required.The log contains this information:........07/10/2007 16:01:35 7 INF Leaving functionParameter.IsDefinedValueChosen07/10/2007 16:01:35 7 INF DisablingKerberos for the provisioned adminvs...07/10/2007 16:01:36 7 ERR Task adminvs hasfailed with an unknown exception07/10/2007 16:01:36 7 ERR Exception:System.ArgumentException: Absolute path information is required.atSystem.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CreateListFromExpressions(String[]str, Boolean needFullPath)atSystem.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.AddPathList(FileIOPermissionAccessaccess, AccessControlActions control, String[] pathListOrig, BooleancheckForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath, Boolean copyPathList)atSystem.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission..ctor(FileIOPermissionAccessaccess, String path)at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisSettings.get_Path()atMicrosoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPProvisioningAssistant.ProvisionWebApplication(StringwebApplicationName, String applicationPoolName, SPIisSettings[] settings,Boolean adminWebApp)atMicrosoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication.ProvisionIisWebSitesAsAdministrator()atMicrosoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication.ProvisionIisWebSites()at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication.Provision()atMicrosoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationWebApplication.Provision()at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebServiceInstance.Provision()atMicrosoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.CentralAdministrationSiteTask.ProvisionAdminVs()atMicrosoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.CentralAdministrationSiteTask.Run()at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()...........Any help will be greatly appreciated

I've tried to install from the domain account with admin rights. Seems that there is some kind of problems that WSS/MOSS 2007 installed under domain has limited access to IIS and can't install admin website, rising the exception. Can anybody escalate this issue?

You must have administrative access on the local box, and be a sysadmin on SQL server to perform this task. Assuming that is the case, did you try to install the Central Administration site with Kerberos? If so, you can change to that setting later on, using the Central Administration console. Try installing without Kerberos. Also, is ASP.NET 2.0 configured for IIS?

Did you do the basic installation, or advanced?

Curtis Ruppe (MicroStaff IT) wrote: A couple things to verify: Your Default Web Site should be disabled. You should already have a folder structure for your SharePoint web sites: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories. Please verify these two. I performed BASIC install 1) Just stop Default web site or what? 2) I have no "wss\VirtualDirectories"directoriesinto "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot"

using Kerberos doesn't help The same error

Michael Nemtsev wrote: Curtis Ruppe (MicroStaff IT) wrote: A couple things to verify: Your Default Web Site should be disabled. You should already have a folder structure for your SharePoint web sites: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories. Please verify these two. I performed BASIC install 1) Just stop Default web site or what? 2) I have no "wss\VirtualDirectories"directoriesinto "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot" That is your problem. Uninstall SharePoint, and then re-install. Use Basic installation if you wish, but before it can create the Central Administration site, that directory structure must be in place.

Any luck with this. I am having the same issue!! Hope this can get some attention from Vole!! (microsoft)

I do not have FrontPage Server Extentions installed. I have another machine were I was able to successfully install and noticed that on this machine that the folder C:\Inetpub\wwwroot has the following settings on the wwwroot Properties window: Share on: Default Web Site Share on this folder is checked Aliases = / On the machine that I can not successfully install I tried to set these same settings on the folder C:\Inetpub\wwwroot and it tells me Alias name "/" contains seperator characters. Please enter a different alias. So I just left it set to Do not share this folder.