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Configuration

Required Files

Files to download:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (download the full distribution - half-way down page)
• SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Edition (make a note of the license keys)
• SQL Server 2005 Trial Edition or SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (free download)

SharePoint 2007 includes SQL Server 2005 Express Edition but only for single-server installations. If you want to be able to extend to multiple servers, you will need to run the Advanced Installation and must have already installed SQL Server

Additional developer files to download:

• SharePoint 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK)
• Windows SharePoint Services v3 SDK
• Windows SharePoint Services Visual Studio 2005 Extensions
• Visual Studio Extensions for .NET 3.0 Windows Workflow Foundation

Installation

• Step-by-step guide (MS blog - Jose Barreto)
• White paper: Installing and configuring MOSS 2007 (2Mb, TechNet, publ. June 2007)
• White paper: Upgrading MOSS 2007 (1Mb, TechNet, March 2007)
• SharePoint Deployment Guide and Checklist Index (Microsoft Download, Oct 2007)
• MOSS/WSS 3.0 Deployment Guidelines (MSDN blog, May 08)

Post Installation

• Install and configure Adobe PDF ifilter - 'how to' blog post (required if you want to PDF files indexed and returned in search results)
• Configure incoming email settings (TechNet)
• Configure internal and external URLs to access the site (per web application)
  • Internal name will be automatically set-up - http://servername:port
  • Use Alternate Access Mappings to provide external URLs, e.g. http://domain.com and http://www.domain.com (each would need to be added as a separate external URL)
  • Alternate Access Mappings can be found in Central Administration | Operations
  • (Other steps): 1. Configure DNS with A record for domain to IP address; 2. Open IIS Manager, select Properties for SharePoint web application, click Advanced and enter host headers for domain and variants

Web Farm Configuration

• SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator (Codeplex, Jan 2008)

Administration, Management and Monitoring

• Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit (released April 08)
• Using the SharePoint Time Service to schedule processes (MSDN, Apr 08)
• SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit (Technet, Feb 2008)
• Guide for Office SharePoint Server Management Pack (TechNet, publ. July 2007)
• SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring for SharePoint 2007 (MS blog and white paper, Mar 07)
• Analysing IIS 6.0 Log Files (TechNet)
• Publishing WSS (v2!) using ISA Server 2004 (TechNet, Jan 2005)
• Caching in ISA 2006 vs Caching in MOSS (Joel Oleson's blog, Dec 2006)

Security

• White paper: Office SharePoint Security (TechNet, publ. June 2007)
• Configure multiple authentication providers (MS blog post - Steve Peschka)

Troubleshooting Tips

To locate stsadm.exe, it's in \programfiles\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions plus the folder for the version - 12 for WSS v3, 60 for WSS v2

To restart IIS, at the command prompt type: iisreset

If you get a runtime error, the default response will be to tell you that the error message details cannot be viewed and advise you to change the customErrors tag in the web.config file. On a default installation, navigate to the following path: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories. Then open the folder representing the correct port number for the web application that served up the error message (e.g. folder 80 corresponds to http://servername) and edit the web.config file as per the instructions