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This four part step by step guide will tell you in detail about installing and configuring Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007. MOSS is a collaboration too and builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence.

Hardware and software requirements
Before you install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007, make sure your servers have the recommended hardware and software. To deploy a server farm, you need at least one server computer acting as a Web server and an application server, and one server computer acting as a database server. A server farm typically consists of one or two back-end database servers and one or more front-end servers that provide Web services and Office SharePoint Server 2007 services, such as search, Excel Services, and indexing. The server computers must meet the following requirements:

Hardware requirements

• Front-end Web server and application server computers: a dual-processor computer with processor clock speeds of 2.5-gigahertz (GHz) or higher and a minimum of 2 gigabytes (GB) of RAM.
• Back-end database server: a dual-processor computer with processor clock speeds of 2.0 GHz or higher and a minimum of 2 GB of RAM.

Software requirements

Web and Application Server

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, or Web Edition) with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
• Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0
• Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0
• The Web server and application server computers must be configured as Web servers running Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) in IIS 6.0 worker process isolation mode.
• Each of the computers must be using the NTFS file system. Windows Server 2003 includes a conversion utility (Convert.exe) that you can use to convert an existing file allocation table (FAT) volume to NTFS without losing data.

Back-End Database Server

• The back-end database server computer must be running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3) or later. It is assumed that you have installed and configured the database program on the back-end server computer. You do not need to set up or create specific databases for Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Office SharePoint Server 2007 Setup program will create the necessary databases when you install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007.

In addition to these requirements, if you are using SQL Server 2005, you need to configure surface area settings. Use the following procedure to do this.

Configure surface area settings in SQL Server 2005

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, point to Configuration Tools, and then click SQL Server Surface Area Configuration.
2. In the SQL Server Surface Area Configuration dialog box, click Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections.
3. In the tree, open your instance of SQL Server, open Database Engine, and then click Remote Connections.
4. Click Local and Remote Connections, click Using both TCP/IP and named pipes, and then click OK.

Security account requirements
To install Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a server farm environment, at-least 2 accounts are required:

• A user account that you can use to install Office SharePoint Server 2007 and run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard. This account must be:
  i. A domain user account.
  ii. A member of the Administrators group on each of your front-end servers.
  iii. A member of the SQL Server Logins, which grants login access to your SQL Server instance.
  iv. A member of the SQL Server Database Creator server role, which grants permission to create and alter databases.
  v. A member of the SQL Server Security Administrators server role, which grants permission to manage server logins.
  vi. A member of the SQL Server Security Administrators server role, which grants permission to manage server logins.

• A unique domain user account that you can specify as the Office SharePoint Server 2007 service account. This user account is used to access your SharePoint configuration database. It also acts as the application pool identity for the SharePoint Central Administration application pool and it is the account under which the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service runs. The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard adds this account to the SQL Server Logins, the SQL Server Database Creator server role, and the SQL Server Security Administrators server role. It is recommended that you follow the principle of least privilege and do not make this user account a member of any particular security group on your front-end servers or your back-end servers.

Configure the server as a Web server

Before you install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007, you must install and configure the required software on each of your front-end servers. This includes installing and configuring IIS so your front-end servers act as Web servers, installing Windows .NET Framework 2.0, enabling ASP.NET 2.0, and installing Windows Workflow Foundation Runtime Components Beta 2.2 (build 3807.7).

Install and configure IIS

IIS is not installed or enabled by default in Windows Server 2003. To make your server a Web server, you must install and enable IIS, and you must make sure that IIS is running in IIS 6.0 worker process isolation mode.
1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Configure Your Server Wizard.
2. On the Welcome to the Configure Your Server Wizard page, click Next.
3. On the Preliminary Steps page, click Next.
4. On the Server Role page, click Application server (IIS, ASP.NET), and then click Next.
5. On the Application Server Options page, click Next.
6. On the Summary of Selections page, click Next.
7. Click Finish.
8. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
9. In the IIS Manager tree, click the plus sign (+) next to the server name, and then right-click the Web Sites folder and select Properties.
10. In the Web Sites Properties dialog box, click the Service tab.
11. In the Isolation mode section, clear the Run WWW service in IIS 5.0 isolation mode check box, and then click OK.
Note The Run WWW in IIS 5.0 isolation mode check box is only selected if you have upgraded to IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 from IIS 5.0 on Microsoft Windows 2000. New installations of IIS 6.0 use IIS 6.0 worker process isolation mode by default.

Install Windows .NET Framework 2.0

1. Run .Net Framework 2.0 Setup

Enable ASP.NET 2.0
1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. In the IIS Manager tree, click the plus sign (+) next to the server name, and then click the Web Service Extensions folder.
3. In the details pane, click ASP.NET v2.0.50727, and then click Allow.

Install .Net Framework 3.0
1. Run .Net Framework 3.0 Setup

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