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This is fourth and last part of the four part step by step guide to installing and configuring Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. For part 3 click here.

In previous part we discussed MOSS installation and configuration and in this last part we will further explore MOSS features and customization.

After you install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007

After you finish creating your first site, you can start adding content to the site and you can start customizing the site. However, it is recommended that you first configure several administrative settings to ensure that your Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment is operating properly and you are using all of the features and capabilities provided by Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Install and configure Excel Calculation Services

To take full advantage of the business intelligence capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007 you need to start and configure Excel Calculation Services. Instructions for doing this are provided below.
Note Excel Services is only available if you use a product key that activates the Enterprise version of Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Start and configure Excel Calculation Services

1. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click Administrative Tasks.
2. On the Administrative Tasks page, click Add Excel Services Trusted Locations.
3. On the Add Excel Services Trusted Locations page, in Action, click Add Excel Services Trusted Locations.
4. On the Excel Services Trusted File Locations page, click Add Trusted File Location.
5. In the Location section, in Address, type the address of the trusted file location. It is recommended that the trusted file location be an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, but you can also specify universal naming convention (UNC) paths or HTTP Web sites.
6. In Location Type, click Windows SharePoint Services if you specified an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site, click UNC if you specified a UNC path, or click HTTP if you specified an HTTP Web site.
7. In the External Data section, in Allow External Data, select the trust level for external data sources that you want to enable by doing one of the following:

• Click None to prevent Excel Calculation Services from processing connections to any external data connection.
• Click Trusted data connection libraries only to prevent Excel Calculation Services from processing connections to external data sources that are embedded within workbooks. This setting permits Excel Calculation Services to process links to trusted data connection libraries.
• Click Trusted data connection libraries and embedded to permit Excel Calculation Services to process direct connections to external data sources that are embedded within workbooks. This setting also permits Excel Calculation Services to process links to trusted data connection libraries.

Configure alternate access mappings for your Web applications

If you installed and configured Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a single front-end server, and a user browses to your server, the server will render the content that is in your Web application. However, if you added subsequent front-end servers to your server farm, the newly-added servers will not have alternate access mappings configured to your Web application. To map newly-added front-end servers to your existing Web application, you need to configure alternate access mappings.

Before you configure alternate access mappings, install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007 on all of the front-end servers that you want to add to your server farm, and make sure that the servers are joined to your server farm. See “Run Windows SharePoint Services Setup” and “Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard” for information about installing and configuring Office SharePoint Server 2007.

To configure alternate access mappings

1. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Operations tab.
2. On the Operations page, in the Global Configuration section, click Alternate access mappings.
3. In Alternate Access Mapping Collection, click Change Alternate Access Mapping Collection.
4. In the Select an Alternate Access Mapping Collection dialog box, click the Web application that you want to modify. If you have created only one Web application, and you specified port 80 for the Web application, the Web application should be listed as SharePoint (80).
5. Click Edit Outbound URLs, and verify that your Web application is listed in the Default zone for outbound URLs. The outbound URL is the URL that you want users to use to access your Web application.
Note: If you have a load-balanced configuration with a host name, add the host name to the Outbound URL for the Default zone.
6. Click Save.
7. Click Add Incoming URLs.
8. On the Add Incoming URLs page, in New default zone URL protocol, host and port type the URL for the server that you want to map to your Web application. Typically, this is http://servername:portnumber.
Note: If you have a load-balanced configuration, you should add the server name of each of your front-end Web servers to the list of internal URLs. This will allow each of your Web servers to reach the content in your common Web application. Also, make sure the zone you selected for the incoming URL matches the zone of the outbound URL for the load balancer. You can have multiple incoming URLs associated with a single outbound URL.
9. In Zone, make sure that Default is selected.
10. Click Save.

Configure additional administrative settings

To take full advantage of the administrative features and capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007, you should perform the following optional administrative tasks using SharePoint Central Administration:

• Configure incoming e-mail settings You can configure incoming e-mail settings so that SharePoint sites accept and archive incoming e-mail. You can also configure incoming e-mail settings so that SharePoint sites can archive e-mail discussions as they happen, save e-mailed documents, and show e-mailed meetings on site calendars. In addition, you can configure the SharePoint Directory Management Service to provide support for e-mail distribution list creation and management.
• Configure outgoing e-mail settings You can configure outgoing e-mail settings so that your Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server sends e-mail alerts to site users and notifications to site administrators. You can configure both the “From” e-mail address and the “Reply” e-mail address that appears in outgoing alerts.
• Create SharePoint sites When Setup finishes you have a single Web application that hosts a single SharePoint site. You can create more SharePoint sites and Web applications if your site design requires multiple sites or multiple Web applications.
• Configure diagnostic logging settings You can configure several diagnostic logging settings to help with troubleshooting. This includes enabling and configuring trace logs, event messages, user-mode error messages, and Customer Experience Improvement Program events.
• Configure antivirus protection settings You can configure several antivirus settings if you have an antivirus program that is designed for Office SharePoint Server 2007. Antivirus settings allow you to control whether documents are scanned on upload or download and whether users can download infected documents. You can also specify how long you want the antivirus program to run before it times out and you can specify how many execution threads the antivirus program can use on the server.

You can use the following procedure to configure optional administrative settings using SharePoint Central Administration.

Configure administrative settings using SharePoint Central Administration

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.
2. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, under Administrative Tasks, click the administrative task you want to perform.
3. On the Administrative Tasks page, next to Action, click the task.

Deploy Language Packs in Office SharePoint Server 2007

Language packs allow site administrators to create SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Language packs are installed on your front-end Web servers and contain language-specific site templates. When a site administrator creates a site or a site collection based on a language-specific site template, the text that appears on the site or the site collection is displayed in the site template’s language.
Note: You cannot change an existing site, site collection, or Web page from one language to another by applying different language-specific site templates; once you choose a language-specific site template for a site or a site collection, the site or site collection will always display content in the language of the original site template.

Preparing your front-end Web servers for language packs

Before you install language packs on your front-end Web servers, you must do the following:

• Install the necessary language files on your front-end Web servers.
• Install Office SharePoint Server 2007 on each of your front-end Web servers.

Language files are used by the operating system and provide support for displaying and entering text in multiple languages. Language files include keyboard files, Input Method Editors (IMEs), TrueType font files, bitmap font files, codepage translation tables, National Language Support (.nls) files, and script engines for rendering complex scripts.

Notes

• You must be an administrator on the computer to install these language files. Once installed, the languages are available to all users of the computer.
• You will need your Windows Server 2003 product disc to perform this procedure, or you will need to know the location of a shared folder that contains your operating system installation files.
• You will have to restart your computer after you install supplemental language files.

To install additional language files
1. On your front-end Web server, click Start, point to Control Panel, and then click Regional and Language Options.
2. On the Regional and Language Options dialog box, on the Languages tab, in Supplemental Language Support, do one or both of the following:

• Click Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai) if you want to install language files for Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, the Indic languages, Thai, and Vietnamese.
• Click Install files for East Asian languages if you want to install language files for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

3. When prompted, insert your Windows Server 2003 product disc or provide the location of your Windows Server 2003 installation files.
4. When prompted to restart your computer, click Yes.

Installing language packs on your front-end Web servers

After you install the necessary language files on your front-end servers, you can install your language packs. Language packs are available as individual downloads (one download for each supported language). If you have a server farm environment, and you are installing language packs to support multiple languages, you must install the language packs on each of your front-end Web servers.

To install a language pack, do the following:

• Run the Setup program for the language pack, and follow the instructions that appear on your screen. Language pack setup is simple and straightforward and takes just a few minutes.
• Rerun the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, using the default settings. Instructions for doing this are provided below. If you do not run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard after you install a language pack, the language pack will not be installed properly.

Rerun the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.
2. On the Welcome to SharePoint Products and Technologies page, click Next.
3. Click Yes in the warning dialog box that appears notifying you that some services might need to be restarted during configuration.
4. On the Modify server farm settings page, click Do not disconnect from this server farm, and then click Next.
5. If the Modify SharePoint Central Administration Web Administration Settings page appears, do not modify any of the default settings, and then click Next.
6. On the Completing the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard page, click Next.
7. On the Configuration Successful page, click Finish.
When you install language packs, the language-specific site templates are installed in the %windir%\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\template\lcid directory, where lcid is the Language-Country ID for the language that you are installing. After you install a language pack, site administrators can create sites and site collections based on the language-specific site templates by specifying a language when they are creating a new SharePoint site or site collection.
If you no longer need to support a language for which you have installed a language pack, you can remove the language pack by using Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. Uninstalling a language pack removes the language-specific site templates from your computer. All sites that were created with those language-specific site templates will no longer work. Reinstalling the language pack will make the site functional.
Note: You cannot uninstall the language pack for the version of Office SharePoint Server 2007 that you have installed on your server. For example, if you are running the Japanese version of Office SharePoint Server 2007, you cannot uninstall the Japanese language support for Office SharePoint Server 2007.

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