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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:21:29+00:00

Looked all over the net for an answer to this; but it seems we

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Looked all over the net for an answer to this; but it seems we are all asking the same question 🙁
The wizard fails at point 8 in the installation.

Log file says…
A SocketException was thrown with SocketError ConnectionRefused
08/26/2011 20:48:15 13 INF Connect has been refused for port 43171, so we will consider this a free port. Exception thrown was SPException. Exception message No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 169.254.199.201:43171, Exception type System.Net.Sockets.SocketException, Exception source System, Exception stack at System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient..ctor(String hostname, Int32 port)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPEvaluatorModeProvisioning.GenerateUniquePort(Int32 maxTries, Int32 minimumPort, Int32 maximumPort).
08/26/2011 20:48:15 13 INF Adding port 43171 to the exclusion list so it is not chosen again
08/26/2011 20:48:15 13 INF Entering function SPEvaluatorModeProvisioning.AddExcludedPort
08/26/2011 20:48:15 13 INF Leaving function SPEvaluatorModeProvisioning.AddExcludedPort
08/26/2011 20:48:15 13 INF Leaving function SPEvaluatorModeProvisioning.GenerateUniquePort

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  1. Editorial Team

    I dumped the Virtual PC and started from scratch using “How to Create a MOSS 2007 VPC Image: The Whole 9 Yards”
    http://www.pptspaces.com/sharepointreporterblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=28
    SharePoint is now running.

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