I come from Singapore but find myself now living and working in the Netherlands, specialising in SMS 2003 / Configmgr 2007. I enjoy working and connecting people with computers and I hope I can share as much information as I can here through this blog.
“Computers do not just work like that, at the press of a button. From the moment a computer is switched on in your office, magic happens. That’s why you need an IT department and they do more than crawling under your desk to plug in that wire you kicked out.”
[Informational]
We should see more and more installations of the SCCM Management Point on Windows Server 2008 in the business environment, so this information will be of great help to prevent anyone going around in circles wondering why the installing is failing. Always remember, logs are your best friend and in this particular case, the symptoms and errors can be found through MPMSI.LOG and MPSETUP.LOG. The article below details the best way to fix it :)
When attempting to install a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Management Point (MP) on Windows Server 2008, the setup may fail with the following errors:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2010/09/21/new-kb-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-management-point-install-fails-on-windows-server-2008-with-the-error-code-is-800cc801.aspx