Below the annoying message box ‘The installation of this package failed‘ that popped up while building a fresh new (virtual) BizTalk Server 2009 development box on Windows Server 2008.
It occurred when I was installing Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 with service pack 1, which is one the prerequisites for the SharePoint Services adapter.
I wanted to get on with the installation and didn’t want to spend much time on finding a solution. So to get around this I copied the .MSI back to my host system (in my case Windows Vista (Business edition) 64 bit). After that I used the command:
Sharepoint.exe /extract:c:tempwss
to extract the installation files from the downloaded .exe. Finally I copied the extracted files back to my virtual machine and ran ‘Setup.exe’. This time setup completed without a glitch.
I suspect Windows 2008 Server or one of the BizTalk 2009 prerequisites I already installed prior to WSS 3.0 to be the cause of the problem. Please comment or e-mail me if you’re not lazy like me, but took the time to find a more elegant and satisfying solution 
. Until that time I hope I can help someone with this workaround.
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