Sometimes it's useful to have actually read the documentation before you do things. Sometimes even that doesn't help if you don't have your wits about you.

I knew that in order to upgrade a MOSS 2007 installation to SP1 you need first of all to install the WSS 3.0 SP1 *files* - that is you do NOT run the SharePoint configuration wizard.

So I ran the WSS 3.0 SP1 installation .exe and prepared to get the page that has a cross at the bottom left hand corner which selects "run the SharePoint confiugration wizard" and when that page arrived I was prepared to un-select it before ending the installation.

Needless to say that page didn't come. Instead I got a page that said "This wizard will upgrade ...."; Next to continue or Cancel.

This left me in a bit of a quandry. Would Next just go to a Page where I had the check box I was expecting, or would it immediately run the wizard ? Would Cancel back-out the "installation" of all those files or would it leave them in the system ?

The page didn't help me decide what would happen so I went for the safe option and pressed Cancel. After all I could re-do the (file) installation if it did back it out.

As it happens, it doesn't. Cancel just means "Don't run the configuration wizard". Isn't it a pity they don't say so instead of writing "cancel to exit the wizard" which leaves you in some doubts as to which wizard they mean and at what stage you are exiting.

That done and with the WSS 3.0 SP1 installation files on the server, I set off to run the MOSS 2007 SP1 installation.

Now I know I should have known better but when - as usual - I went to the Download section of the Articles - 2007 Products part of the WSS FAQ site looking for this, I looked for all combinations of MOSS 2007 SP1.

It doesn't exist of course. MS in their wisdom have a common Service Pack 1 for "Office Servers" (MOSS, Project; Groove) and eventually I remembered this and couldn't find it under that name either ! So a search of the page for SP1 and there it was "The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1)". Somehow looking under "The 2007" in the view that was sorted by Name wasn't obvious.

Anyway there it was. I set it going knowing that if the WSS 3.0 SP1 files weren't already there there'd be an error message. There wasn't. The Office Servers SP1 installed *its* files on the server and now again there was the Next = run wizard page.

This time I wanted to run it and (crossing my fingers) set it going.

After all the above (and naturally the earlier copy of a working MOSS 2007 VM just in case the upgrade crashed in flames), it's perhaps a disappointment to you all to hear that the upgrade worked successfully.

So, sorry, once again I can't help people whose upgrades have gone wrong at some stage in the wizard routine.

P.S. But, once again, not that sad :)