Visual Studio 2008 On Windows Server 2008 with Restart
I went to install an instance of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta onto a Windows Server 2008 machine today in order to be able to install the Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR June CTP. As part of the SP1 Beta install it needed to restart, I assume for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 install. When the machine restarted I didn't notice that I didn't seem to have any more SP1 beta installation going and thus assumed it was successful before and just need a reboot to finalize it all. Apparently not. When I then went to install the Data Dude GDR June CTP it complained that pre-requisites were not met and pointed me to the GDR CTP download site that includes the readme. Not exactly sure what pre-requisites I was missing I decided to look at my installed programs. There was the 3.5 SP1 but no Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed. Apparently, in my case, it did not start where it left off in the SP1 install.
This may have been isolated but you may need to take notice if installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta on a Windows Server 2008 machine that you may need to manually start the installation again after the reboot to actually get it into place.