We were installing SPS2003 in a freind's machine last time and came across a weird problem saying 'Service Unavailable'. Trying installing and uninstalling it over and over again, we got fedup. Ofcourse we got some solutions as a result of googling but they didn't help us at all. Strange! we had the same problem as they were saying but the workaround didn't help us at all.
The solutions were to check the credientials, specify the correct application pool, etc. We did all we could but still the answer was nope.
Finally we figured that this shows up if the operating system (Windows 2003 Server) is installed from an image. Yes! Installation and configuration is a time consuming task. IT department usually install the image file to the new machine so that the OS gets installed and ready to run in no time.
Unfortunately and sometimes, sharepoint doesn't go with this where it creates "Service Unavailable" problem. Once they installed the OS from the CD, we tried installing sharepoint again. Bingo! that worked. I still wonder whether this is sometimes or always???
For more information regarding operating system images refer Managing Your Operating Systems which was written by Douglas Steen.
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