Few months back we added an app server to our farm, and – as always – it turned out to be an adventure.
Got a fresh Windows Server 2008 R2 install, joined to the domain, and applied all pertinent hotfixes and patches. While things were installing I downloaded the latest .iso’s from Volume Licensing. I went with the SP1 .iso’s as I figured this would be fine since the farm was already well past SP1. Save some time right?
Popped the dvd’s in the server and away we went. Install went fine with SharePoint so I moved on to the Office Web Apps. No incident there either.
I started up the Products Configuration Wizard and tried to join the box to the farm when I ran across an (in)convenient message telling me the Office Web App language server proofs we’re missing. But didn’t they install when I laid down Office Web Apps? What gives!?!
I commenced to Googling and I ran across this:
Looks like the slipstream installers are broken. I would take a guess and say Microsoft won’t be fixing them any time soon either.
Needless to say, I ended up reformatting the hard drive and starting over. I downloaded the pre-SP1 media and installed in the following order: SharePoint 2010 pre-SP1 > Office Web Apps pre-SP1 > SharePoint 2010 SP1 > Office Web Apps SP1 > SharePoint June 2011 CU > Current SharePoint CU. Took considerably more time, but it joined the farm no problem.
Moral of the story here is if you stood up your farm prior to SP1 with Office Web Apps, and you want to add another server to the farm you’ll need to do so following the procedures I went through.
Anyone else run into this?
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