Lots of people are obviously intending to install the office service pack 1 onto their Moss installations. However, what's the advice if you are (like me) creating a new multi-server moss farm and you want to ensure you rollout moss 2007 with SP1 applied?
Well, looking at the official documentation just didn't look like it was easily possible, and there was conflicting advice on the web around when to install SP1.
e.g. Configure your whole farm or just the SSP? Run the updates after the initial installation but don't run the config wizard? etc. etc.
This is until that is you realise that you can use the /Updates folder on the root of the Moss installation files, which is what the folder is for, to provision updates/patches.
So follow these five steps to Moss 2007 with SP1 install heaven:
1. Copy the contents of the MOSS 2007 CD to your hard drive (e.g. C:\MossWithSP1)
2. Download WSS 3.0 SP1 and Office 2007 SP1 (e.g C:\MossSp1)
3. Extract the contents to the Updates folder within your locally copied Moss installation by running the following at the command prompt:
C:\MossSp1\Wssv3sp1-kb936988-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:c:\MossWithSP1
C:\MossSp1\Officeserver2007sp1-kb936984-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:c:\MossWithSP1
4. Use ImgBurn to burn the C:\MossWithSp1 back to an iso or to cd.
5. Use this disc on all future new Moss farms you build to avoid the need to upgrade to SP1
Now why on earth didn't Microsoft do this for new installations and make it available on MSDN!!??