Like a few other people, I experienced a problem installing the Beta 2 Technical Refresh for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Everything went by the book until the "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard" got to the final step, when it failed with an error "could not find stored procedure 'dbo.proc_MSS_cleanup'".

The solution is outlined in this newsgroup post (Broken link, was originally www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?cat=&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.sharepoint.setup_and_administration&tid=e4cab64e-b11b-4266-8751-25e440938fee&mid=2412db7b-436c-4172-8e7f-9ff29e823829&rmid=2412db7b-436c-4172-8e7f-9ff29e823829&helpful=1&p=1&stgxml=http%3a%2f%2fwww.microsoft.com%2foffice%2fcommunity%2fen-us%2fsettings.xml).