I was trying to setup Sharepoint “v3” which is part of Office 2007; the Beta 1 Technical Refresh installs without a problem, but when I try and configure Sharepoint it fails in Step 2 and I get the error shown below. You can click on the image to see the full size.

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However, when I trawl through the log file, I did find a few exceptions, a couple of which are listed below. The only reason the font is small on those is so it would fit and render fine in here. You can copy and paste that in notepad or something and see if in a bigger font; alternatively you can download the log file (see the end of this posting).

Exception 1:

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Entering function CreateCentralAdministrationSiteForm.CreateCentralAdministrationSiteFormInitializeBeforeShow  
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A SocketException was thrown with SocketError ConnectionRefused  
Connect has been refused for port 12838, so we will consider this a free port  
Have not found a free port yet.  Number of tries is 1.  Min port we will try is 1024, Max port we will try is 49151  
Leaving function CentralAdministrationSiteTask.GenerateRandomUnUsedPortForTheAdminVs  
Leaving function CreateCentralAdministrationSiteForm.CreateCentralAdministrationSiteFormInitializeBeforeShow

Exception 2:

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Entering function ResourceAccess.SetAccessRule  
Entering function ResourceAccess.SetRegistryAccessRule  
Entering function ResourceAccess.RetrieveRegistryRightsFromResourceAccessPermissions  
Leaving function ResourceAccess.RetrieveRegistryRightsFromResourceAccessPermissions  
Task secureresources has failed with an unknown exception  
Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: This access control list is not in canonical form and therefore cannot be modified.  
   at System.Security.AccessControl.CommonAcl.RemoveQualifiedAces(SecurityIdentifier sid, AceQualifier qualifier, Int32 accessMask, AceFlags flags, Boolean saclSemantics, ObjectAceFlags objectFlags, Guid objectType, Guid inheritedObjectType)  
   at System.Security.AccessControl.DiscretionaryAcl.RemoveAccess(AccessControlType accessType, SecurityIdentifier sid, Int32 accessMask, InheritanceFlags inheritanceFlags, PropagationFlags propagationFlags)  
   at System.Security.AccessControl.CommonObjectSecurity.ModifyAccess(AccessControlModification modification, AccessRule rule, Boolean& modified)  
   at System.Security.AccessControl.CommonObjectSecurity.ResetAccessRule(AccessRule rule)  
   at System.Security.AccessControl.RegistrySecurity.ResetAccessRule(RegistryAccessRule rule)  
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ResourceAccess.SetRegistryAccessRule()  
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ResourceAccess.Secure()  
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.SecurityTask.SecureResources()  
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.SecurityTask.Run()  
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()

I think I have everything outlined in the installation document for the Beta 1 Technical Refresh. BTW, I have this on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP1 and all latest patches. SQL Server 2005 Dev. Edition and VS.NET 2005 Professional Edition.

There are a couple of more exceptions along the same line - if it would help I have upload the full log file which you can download here (53 kb). But the real question is any idea what is broken and why?