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Thursday, August 21, 2008

WSS 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1 on Win2k3 64bit

I got this to work for me using Orca to edit the MSI using the following:

1. Download Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1 for Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64-bit
A.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3E1DCCCD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en
2. Save the install file: C:\Temp\VSeWSSv11.exe

3. Extract the MSI using this command: C:\Temp\> VSeWSSv11.exe /Extract

4. Output MSI file: C:\Temp\VSeWSSv11.msi

5. Downloaded Windows® Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK
A. Installed just Orca

6. Edit MSI using Orca
A. In the Tables column
1. Select: InstallExecuteSequence
2. In the right pane, drop these two rows.
a. X64System
b. WSSNotInstalled
3. Select: InstallUISequence
4. In the right pane, drop these two rows.
a. X64System
b. WSSNotInstalled
B. Save MSI

7. Run edited MSI and follow the prompts.

Hope this helps someone else, it sure did for me!

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