Symptoms
Task for provisioning Sharepoint site to W2k3 servers with WSS 3.0 fails with the following error:
Task name
Create SharePoint site (domain testdomain.tld #3174, srv_id #4407, homedir #101194) on exclusive web application on host wss01.hosting.local (#43)
Last execution output
Destination host 'wss01.hosting.local' (#43), IP '10.0.123.123' : Provisioning request failed. Invalid pointer [<response><errorContext description="Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: type" code="0x80004003" executeSeqNo="56"><errorSource namespace="Error Provider" procedure="SetError"/><errorSource namespace="Error Provider Ex" procedure="RethrowError"/></errorContext></response>]
Cause
The issue is a result of a bug POA-80645 discovered in POA 5.5.
Resolution
The issue is fixed in POA 5.5 update 2. Please update POA environment to the version 5.5.2 to fix it.