Well if you are... You are not alone !

Actually scripted Sharepoint installations have been discussed in the past, and are a very helpful way for deploying large farms.

We have published a new white paper on that, It provides very good information that will help you build your own scripts.

It can be found at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135694

One of the biggest challenges we have had is providing customers with reliable and  well organized documentation for updating their servers with the latest update including install sequence to get an RTM server to the latest version. 

In the latest refresh of the documents we have made substantial improvements to make the documents more usable and easier to read.  As we move forward with future cumulative updates and service packs we will continue to take feedback and update the documents to make them better.

Note:  These links remain the same as previously published so if you already have them as favorites then you are already set.

Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288269.aspx

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx

This is the first version of the Admin Toolkit. The idea is to put in place a mechanism to release supported, documented, and sustained tools for SharePoint.   

The plan is to release an updated toolkit quarterly which will include tools to address top support issues or design deficiencies that are a hindrance for product use.

The Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit 1.0 releases to the web today !

• Tools Contained: 
• Batch Site Manager
• It will allow you to go into Central Administration, Application Management, and from there repartition sites straight from the UI and handles other tasks such as locking and deleting site collections.

• Alert Fixer

• A new stsadm command called updatealert which will fix our #2 overall top support issue with alerts not firing after upgrade/migration

•  http://support.microsoft.com/?id=936759. 

• It will also fixup URLs in the body of the alerts if the URL of the web application changes

• http://support.microsoft.com/?id=936760. 

• WhitePaper:
• http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117212&clcid=0x409 
• Download Link:
•  x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=263CD480-F6EB-4FA3-9F2E-2D47618505F2&displaylang=en
•  x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F8EEA8F0-FA30-4C10-ABC9-217EEACEC9CE&displaylang=en

You may be interested in knowing that we have released the WSSv3 and MOSS blackout hotfixes.  These are the fixes from between December and February while we were re-integrating the branches and could not produce hotfix builds. 

The build number for the blackout hotfixes is 12.0.6303.5000.  When you install it, the version information will record as 12.0.6303.5000.  These hotfixes are also Post SP1 and include everything that was in the Post SP1 rollups (SharePoint hotfixes are cumulative).  Therefore, if you would prefer to have both the SPLock fixes and the blackout fixes, we would recommend you issue the blackout hotifxes from:

I just found this recently published page on the SharePoint TechCenter. It has most all of our content for Windows Server 2008. 

This is a great one stop shopping for both KBs and product content.

Windows Server 2008 Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies