Deployment of Share Point

Deployment for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology

Microsoft Corporation

Published: July 2008

Author: Windows SharePoint Services IT User Assistance ([email protected])

AbstractThis book provides information and guidelines to lead a team through the steps of deploying a solution based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The audiences for this book are business application specialists, line-of-business specialists, information architects, IT generalists, program managers, and infrastructure specialists who are deploying a solution based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. You can find information about upgrading to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in the book Upgrading to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=85554&clcid=0x409).

The content in this book is a copy of selected content in the Windows SharePoint Services technical library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=81199) as of the date above. For the most current content, see the technical library on the Web.

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ContentsRoadmap to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content.................................................................1

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content by audience..............................................................1Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IT professional content by stage of the IT life cycle..............2

Evaluate................................................................................................................................... 3Plan.......................................................................................................................................... 3Deploy...................................................................................................................................... 4Operate.................................................................................................................................... 6Security and Protection............................................................................................................7Technical Reference................................................................................................................. 7Solutions.................................................................................................................................. 8

I. End -to-end deployment scenarios (Windows SharePoint Services)..........................................9

Chapter overview: End-to-end deployment scenarios (Windows SharePoint Services)...............10

Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a stand-alone computer..........................................12Hardware and software requirements........................................................................................13Configure the server as a Web server.......................................................................................13

Install and configure IIS..........................................................................................................13Install the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0..................................................................14Enable ASP.NET 2.0..............................................................................................................14

Install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Windows Internal Database........14Post-installation steps................................................................................................................16

Deploy in a simple server farm (Windows SharePoint Services)..................................................18Deployment overview................................................................................................................18

Deploying Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a DBA environment.................................19Suggested topologies.............................................................................................................19Before you begin deployment.................................................................................................19Overview of the deployment process.....................................................................................20

Phase 1: Deploy and configure the server infrastructure....................................................20Phase 2: Deploy and configure SharePoint site collections and sites.................................20

Deploy and configure the server infrastructure..........................................................................20Prepare the database server..................................................................................................20

SQL Server and database collation....................................................................................21Required accounts..............................................................................................................21

Verify that servers meet hardware and software requirements..............................................22Install and configure IIS......................................................................................................23Install the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0..............................................................23Enable ASP.NET 2.0...........................................................................................................24

Run Setup on all servers in the farm......................................................................................24

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Run Setup on the first server..............................................................................................24Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard..............................25Add servers to the farm.......................................................................................................28Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on additional servers

........................................................................................................................................ 28Start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service........................................................29

Perform additional configuration tasks.......................................................................................30Create a site collection and a SharePoint site...........................................................................31

Configure the trace log...........................................................................................................35

Deploy using DBA-created databases (Windows SharePoint Services).......................................37About deploying by using DBA-created databases....................................................................37Required database hardware and software...............................................................................38Required accounts..................................................................................................................... 38Create and configure the databases..........................................................................................40

Deploy a simple farm on the Windows Server 2008 operating system (Windows SharePoint Services)................................................................................................................................... 43Deployment overview................................................................................................................43

Deploying Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a DBA environment.................................44Suggested topologies.............................................................................................................44Before you begin deployment.................................................................................................44Overview of the deployment process.....................................................................................45

Phase 1: Deploy and configure the server infrastructure....................................................45Phase 2: Deploy and configure SharePoint site collections and sites.................................45

Deploy and configure the server infrastructure..........................................................................45Prepare the database server..................................................................................................45

SQL Server and database collation....................................................................................46Required accounts..............................................................................................................46

Verify that servers meet hardware and software requirements..............................................48Install Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0........................................................................48Run Setup on all servers in the farm......................................................................................48

Run Setup on the first server..............................................................................................49Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard..............................50Add servers to the farm.......................................................................................................52Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on additional servers

........................................................................................................................................ 53Start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service........................................................53

Configure Windows Firewall with Advanced Security................................................................54Perform additional configuration tasks.......................................................................................56Create a site collection and a SharePoint site...........................................................................57Configure the trace log..............................................................................................................61

Configure Windows Server Backup........................................................................................62

Install a stand-alone server on Windows Server 2008 (Windows SharePoint Services)...............64

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Hardware and software requirements........................................................................................65Install Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0........................................................................65

Install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1...........................65Post-installation steps................................................................................................................67Configure the trace log..............................................................................................................68Configure Windows Server Backup...........................................................................................69

II. Deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment.................................71

A. Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for a server farm environment................................72

Chapter overview: Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for a server farm environment........73Suggested topologies................................................................................................................73Before you begin deployment....................................................................................................74Overview of the deployment process.........................................................................................74

Phase 1: Deploy and configure the server infrastructure.......................................................74Phase 2: Deploy and configure SharePoint site collections and sites....................................75

Prepare the database servers (Windows SharePoint Services)...................................................76SQL Server and database collation...........................................................................................76Required accounts..................................................................................................................... 77Preinstall databases (optional)..................................................................................................77

Prepare the front-end Web servers (Windows SharePoint Services)............................................78Install the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0.....................................................................78Enable ASP.NET 2.0.................................................................................................................. 78

Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and run the SharePoint Products and Technologies configuration wizard...................................................................................................................79Run Setup on the first server.....................................................................................................79

Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard..................................80Add servers to the farm..........................................................................................................82Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on additional servers83

Start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service...........................................................84

Deploy language packs (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0).......................................................85About language IDs and language packs..................................................................................85Preparing your front-end Web servers for language packs.......................................................87Installing language packs on your front-end Web servers.........................................................88

Uninstalling language packs...............................................................................................89

B. Perform additional configuration tasks.....................................................................................91

Chapter overview: Perform additional configuration tasks (Windows SharePoint Services).........92Configure additional administrative settings..............................................................................92

Configure incoming e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services)............................................94

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Install and configure the SMTP service.....................................................................................95Start the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application service..........................................95Install the SMTP service.........................................................................................................95Configure the SMTP service..................................................................................................96Add an SMTP connector in Exchange Server........................................................................97

Configure Active Directory.........................................................................................................97Configure Active Directory under atypical circumstances.......................................................99To delegate full control of the organizational unit to the Central Administration application pool

account............................................................................................................................... 99To add the Delete Subtree permission for the Central Administration application pool account

.......................................................................................................................................... 100Configure permissions to the e-mail drop folder......................................................................101

Configure e-mail drop folder permissions for the logon account for the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service......................................................................................................101

Configure e-mail drop folder permissions for the application pool account for a Web application.........................................................................................................................101

Configure DNS Manager.........................................................................................................102Configure attachments from Outlook 2003..............................................................................103Configure incoming e-mail settings..........................................................................................103Configuring incoming e-mail on SharePoint sites....................................................................105

Configure outgoing e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services)..........................................106Install and configure the SMTP service...................................................................................106

Install the SMTP service.......................................................................................................106Configure the SMTP service................................................................................................107

Configure outgoing e-mail settings..........................................................................................108

Configure outgoing e-mail settings for a specific Web application (Windows SharePoint Services)................................................................................................................................................ 109Install and configure the SMTP service...................................................................................109

Install the SMTP service.......................................................................................................109Configure the SMTP service.................................................................................................110

Configure outgoing e-mail settings...........................................................................................111

Configure workflow settings (Windows SharePoint Services).....................................................112Configuring workflow settings..................................................................................................112

Configure diagnostic logging settings (Windows SharePoint Services)......................................114Customer Experience Improvement Program..........................................................................114Error reports............................................................................................................................. 114Event throttling......................................................................................................................... 115Configuring diagnostic logging settings...................................................................................116

Configure anti-virus settings (Windows SharePoint Services)....................................................118Administrative credentials........................................................................................................118

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Configure Web SSO authentication by using ADFS (Windows SharePoint Services).................119About federated authentication systems..................................................................................119Before you begin...................................................................................................................... 119Configuring your extranet Web application to use Web SSO authentication...........................120Allowing users access to your extranet Web site.....................................................................122

About using Central Administration......................................................................................124Working with the People Picker...............................................................................................125Working with E-mail and UPN claims......................................................................................126Working with groups and organizational group claims.............................................................126

Run the Best Practices Analyzer Tool (Windows SharePoint Services)......................................129

Configure authentication (Windows SharePoint Services)..........................................................130Windows SharePoint Services authentication.........................................................................130Windows authentication provider.............................................................................................131Forms authentication provider.................................................................................................132Web single sign-on (SSO) authentication provider..................................................................132

Configure digest authentication (Windows SharePoint Services)...............................................133About digest authentication.....................................................................................................133Enable digest authentication for a zone of a Web application.................................................134Configure IIS to enable digest authentication..........................................................................134

Configure forms-based authentication (Windows SharePoint Services).....................................136About forms-based authentication...........................................................................................136Configure forms-based authentication across multiple zones.................................................139

Configure Web SSO authentication by using ADFS (Windows SharePoint Services)................141About federated authentication systems..................................................................................141Before you begin.....................................................................................................................141Configuring your extranet Web application to use Web SSO authentication...........................142Allowing users access to your extranet Web site.....................................................................144

About using Central Administration......................................................................................146Working with the People Picker...............................................................................................147Working with E-mail and UPN claims......................................................................................148Working with groups and organizational group claims.............................................................148

White paper: SQL Server Reporting Services integration with SharePoint Products and Technologies (Windows SharePoint Services)........................................................................151

C. Deploy and configure SharePoint sites.................................................................................152

Chapter overview: Deploy and configure SharePoint sites (Windows SharePoint Services)......153

Create or extend Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services)..........................................155Create a new Web application.................................................................................................155Extend an existing Web application.........................................................................................157

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Configure alternate access mapping (Windows SharePoint Services).......................................160Manage alternate access mappings........................................................................................160Add an internal URL................................................................................................................160Edit or delete an internal URL.................................................................................................161Edit public URLs......................................................................................................................161Map to an external resource....................................................................................................161

Create zones for Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services)..........................................163Create a new zone..................................................................................................................163View existing zones................................................................................................................. 163

Create quota templates (Windows SharePoint Services)...........................................................164Create a new quota template..................................................................................................164Edit an existing quota template...............................................................................................165Delete a quota template..........................................................................................................165

Create site collections (Windows SharePoint Services)..............................................................167

Prepare to crawl host-named sites that use Basic authentication...............................................168Solution prerequisites..............................................................................................................168High-level solution overview....................................................................................................169

High-level steps....................................................................................................................170Deploy the solution.................................................................................................................. 170

Extend the Web application..................................................................................................171Map site names to static IP addresses in DNS....................................................................172Grant user permissions........................................................................................................174

Prepare to crawl host-named sites that use forms authentication...............................................175Solution prerequisites..............................................................................................................175High-level solution overview....................................................................................................176

High-level steps....................................................................................................................177Deploy the solution.................................................................................................................. 177

Add configuration settings to the applicable Web.config files...............................................179Extend the Web application..................................................................................................181Map site names to static IP addresses in DNS....................................................................181Grant user permissions........................................................................................................183

Add site content (Windows SharePoint Services).......................................................................184Use Web site designers to design and add content.................................................................184Migrate content from another site............................................................................................185Allow users to add content directly..........................................................................................185

Enable access for end users (Windows SharePoint Services)...................................................186Add site collection administrators............................................................................................186Add site owners or other users................................................................................................187

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III. Install application templates...................................................................................................189

Installing application templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.......................................190Site Admin Templates..............................................................................................................190Server Admin Templates..........................................................................................................191

IV. Deploy software updates and upgrade to a new operating system........................................194

Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0................................................195Before you begin.....................................................................................................................196

Pre-upgrade preparation......................................................................................................196Overview of installation sequence...........................................................................................199Perform installation steps........................................................................................................200

Install the software update...................................................................................................201Large-farm optimization.......................................................................................................203

Verify installation...................................................................................................................... 205Add new servers to a server farm............................................................................................207Update language template packs............................................................................................209Known issues..........................................................................................................................209

Error: Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies.........................................210Error: Unknown SQL Exception 15363.................................................................................210Foxit PDF IFilter must be reinstalled after installing software update...................................210Setup stops responding when you use an alternate location for the Updates folder............211Error: The search request is unable to connect to the search service..................................211GroupBoard Workspace 2007 and software update failures................................................211

Create an installation source that includes software updates (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)................................................................................................................................................ 213Use the updates folder............................................................................................................213Language template packs.......................................................................................................214

Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1................215Before you begin.....................................................................................................................215

Address any installation issues............................................................................................215Install Windows Internal Database SP2...............................................................................215Stop the Search service.......................................................................................................216

Install Windows Server 2008...................................................................................................216Perform post-installation procedures.......................................................................................216Configure Windows Server Backup.........................................................................................217Known issues..........................................................................................................................217

Repair not allowed when Least User Access is enabled......................................................217Fixing problems after upgrading without Windows Internal Database Service Pack 2.........218Reset the Windows SharePoint Services Search service index...........................................219

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Roadmap to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 contentIn this article:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content by audience

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IT professional content by stage of the IT life cycle

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content by audienceEach audience for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 can go to a specific Web site for content that is tailored to that audience. The following table lists the audiences and provides links to the content for each audience.

Information Workers IT Professionals Developers

Content available on

Office Online

Content available on:

TechNet

Content available on:

MSDN

Home page — a central portal for Information Worker resources (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88898&clcid=0x409)

Help and How-to — an index for Information Worker content (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88899&clcid=0x409)

TechCenter — a central portal for IT professional resources (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=73953&clcid=0x409)

Technical Library — an index for IT professional content (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88902&clcid=0x409)

Newly published content — an article that lists new or updated content in the Technical Library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?

Developer Center — a central portal for Developer resources (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88910&clcid=0x409)

MSDN Library — an index for Developer content (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=86923&clcid=0x409)

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Information Workers IT Professionals Developers

LinkId=88906&clcid=0x409)

Downloadable books — an article that lists the books available for download (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88907&clcid=0x409)

Additionally, there is information for all users of SharePoint Products and Technologies at the community and blog sites listed in the following table.

Community content and blogs

SharePoint Products and Technologies community portal — a central place for community information (blogs, newsgroups, etc.) about SharePoint Products and Technologies (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88915&clcid=0x409)

SharePoint Products and Technologies team blog — a group blog from the teams who develop the SharePoint Products and Technologies (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88916&clcid=0x409)

Support Center for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 — a central place for issues and solutions from Microsoft Help and Support (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=89561&clcid=0x409)

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IT professional content by stage of the IT life cycleIT Professional content for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes content appropriate for each stage of the IT life cycle — evaluate, plan, deploy, and operate — plus technical reference content. The following sections describe each stage in the IT life cycle and list the content available to assist IT professionals during that stage. The most up-to-date content is always available on the TechNet Web site.

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We also offer downloadable books that cover each stage of the IT life cycle, plus books that cover all stages of the life cycle for a specific solution. For an updated list, see Downloadable books for Windows SharePoint Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88907&clcid=0x409).

EvaluateDuring the evaluation stage, IT professionals (including decision makers, solution architects, and system architects) focus on understanding a new technology and evaluate how it can help them address their business needs. The following table lists resources that are available to help you evaluate Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Content Description Links

Online content

Includes the most up-to-date content. The Technical Library on TechNet is continually refreshed with new and updated content.

Evaluation for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=88902&clcid=0x409)

Evaluation Guide

Provides an overview, information about what's new, and conceptual information for understanding Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Evaluation Guide (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86962&clcid=0x409)

PlanDuring the planning stage, IT professionals have different needs depending on their role within an organization. If you are focused on designing a solution, including determining the structure, capabilities, and information architecture for a site, you might want information that helps you to determine which capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 you want to take advantage of, and that helps you to plan for those capabilities and to tailor the solution to your organization's needs. On the other hand, if you are focused on the hardware and network environment for your solution, you might want information that helps you to structure the server topology, plan authentication methods, and understand system requirements for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. We have planning content, including worksheets, to address both of these needs.

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The following table lists resources that are available to help you plan for using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.


Online content


Planning and architecture for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=88954&clcid=0x409)

Planning Guide, Part 1

Provides in-depth planning information for application administrators who are designing a solution based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Planning and architecture for Windows SharePoint Services, part 1 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=79600)

Planning Guide, Part 2

Provides in-depth planning information for IT professionals who are designing the environment to host a solution based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Planning and architecture for Windows SharePoint Services, part 2 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=85553)

DeployDuring the deployment stage, you configure your environment, install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and then start creating SharePoint sites. Depending on your environment and your solution, you may have several configuration steps to perform for your servers, for your Shared Services Providers, and for your sites. Additionally, you may have templates, features, or other custom elements to deploy into your environment.

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The process of upgrading from a previous-version product, such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, or Windows SharePoint Services, is also part of the deployment stage of the IT life cycle. We have content that addresses planning for upgrade, performing the upgrade, and performing post-upgrade steps.

The following table lists resources that are available to help you deploy or upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.


Online content Includes the most up-to-date content. The Technical Library on TechNet is continually refreshed with new and updated content.

Deployment for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=80752&clcid=0x409)

Deployment Guide

Provides in-depth deployment information for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Deployment for Windows SharePoint Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=79602)

Upgrade Guide Provides overview and in-depth information for upgrading from a previous version product to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Upgrading to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=85554)

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http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=79602



Migration and Upgrade for SharePoint Developers

Provides cross-audience (IT and developer) information for migration and upgrade from a previous version product to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Migration and Upgrade Information for SharePoint Developers

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=89129&clcid=0x409)

OperateAfter deployment, in which you install and configure your environment, you move to the operations stage. During this stage, you are focused on the day-to-day monitoring, maintenance, and tuning of your environment.

The following table lists resources that are available to help with day-to-day operations for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.


Online content


Operations for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=89152&clcid=0x409)

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Security and ProtectionBecause security and protection are concerns during all phases of the IT life cycle, appropriate content for security and protection is included in the content for each life cycle stage. However, an aggregate view of this content is provided in a Security and Protection section of the documentation. The following table lists resources that are available to help you understand security and protection for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.


Online content


Security and protection for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=89154&clcid=0x409)

Technical ReferenceTechnical reference information supports the content for each of the IT life cycle stages by providing the technical information you need to work with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For example, the Technical Reference content has information about how permissions work, how to perform operations from the command line, and how to use Setup.exe from the command line.

The following table lists resources that are available to help you work with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.


Online content


Technical Reference for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=88902&clcid=0x409)

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SolutionsIn addition to these IT life cycle-specific resources, we also offer several solution guides that help you plan, deploy, and operate a specific type of solution based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For a current list of solution guides for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, see Downloadable books for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=89165&clcid=0x409).

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I. End -to-end deployment scenarios (Windows SharePoint Services)

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Chapter overview: End-to-end deployment scenarios (Windows SharePoint Services)This chapter provides information and directions for deploying Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 as an end-to-end solution, whether on a single computer or in a simple server farm. This chapter does not discuss more complex deployments. For information about deploying Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a large server farm, see Deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment.

The articles in this chapter include:

Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a stand-alone computer discusses how to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single server computer. A stand-alone configuration is useful if you want to evaluate Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 features and capabilities, such as collaboration, document management, and search. A stand-alone configuration is also useful if you are deploying a small number of Web sites and you want to minimize administrative overhead.

Deploy in a simple server farm (Windows SharePoint Services) discusses how to do a clean installation of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment. You can deploy in a server farm environment if you are hosting a large number of sites, if you want the best possible performance, or if you want the scalability of a multi-tier topology. A server farm consists of one or more servers dedicated to running the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 applications.

Deploy using DBA-created databases (Windows SharePoint Services) discusses how to deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in an environment in which database administrators create and manage databases. This article discusses how database administrators (DBAs) can create these databases and how farm administrators configure them. The deployment includes all the required databases and one portal site.

Deploy a simple farm on the Windows Server 2008 operating system (Windows SharePoint Services) discusses how to deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) on the new Windows Server 2008 operating system. Only Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 or later can be installed on Windows Server 2008. You can deploy in a server farm environment if you are hosting a large number of sites, if you want the best possible performance, or if you want the scalability of a multi-tier topology. A server farm consists of one or more servers dedicated to running the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 applications.

Install a stand-alone server on Windows Server 2008 (Windows SharePoint Services) discusses how to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) on the new Windows Server 2008 operating system. Only Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 or later can be installed on Windows Server 2008. A stand-alone configuration is useful if you want to evaluate Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 features and capabilities, such as collaboration, document management, and search. A stand-alone configuration is also useful

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if you are deploying a small number of Web sites and you want to minimize administrative overhead.

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Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a stand-alone computerIn this article:

Hardware and software requirements

Configure the server as a Web server

Install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Windows Internal Database

Post-installation steps

This information applies to Microsoft Windows Server 2003. If you are in a Windows Server® 2008 environment, the steps to install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS), the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are different. For more information, see Install a stand-alone server on Windows Server 2008 (Windows SharePoint Services).

Important This document discusses how to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single computer as a stand-alone installation. It does not cover installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a farm environment, upgrading from previous releases of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, or how to upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003. For information about how to do this, see the following articles:

Deploy in a simple server farm (Windows SharePoint Services)

Upgrading to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

You can quickly publish a SharePoint site by deploying Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single server computer. A stand-alone configuration is useful if you want to evaluate Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 features and capabilities, such as collaboration, document management, and search. A stand-alone configuration is also useful if you are deploying a small number of Web sites and you want to minimize administrative overhead. When you deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single server using the default settings, the Setup program automatically installs the Windows internal Database uses it to create the configuration database and content database for your SharePoint sites. Windows Internal Database uses SQL Server technology as a relational data store for Windows roles and features only, such as Windows SharePoint Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, UDDI Services, Windows Server Update Services, and Windows System Resources Manager.. In addition, Setup installs the SharePoint Central Administration Web site and creates your first SharePoint site collection and site.

Note There is no direct upgrade from a stand-alone installation to a farm installation.

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Hardware and software requirementsBefore you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, be sure that your servers have the required hardware and software. For more information about these requirements, see Determine hardware and software requirements (Windows SharePoint Services).

Configure the server as a Web serverBefore you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must install and configure the required software. This includes installing and configuring Internet Information Services (IIS) so your computer acts as a Web server, installing the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0, and enabling ASP.NET 2.0.

Install and configure IISInternet Information Services (IIS) is not installed or enabled by default in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. To make your server a Web server, you must install and enable IIS, and you must ensure that IIS is running in IIS 6.0 worker process isolation mode.

Install and configure IIS

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, right-click the Web Sites folder, and then click 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.

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Install the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0Go to the Microsoft Download Center Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=72322&clcid=0x409), and on the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package page, follow the instructions for downloading and installing the .NET Framework version 3.0. There are separate downloads for x86-based computers and x64-based computers. Be sure to download and install the appropriate version for your computer. The .NET Framework version 3.0 download contains the Windows Workflow Foundation technology, which is required by workflow features.

Note You can also use the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5. You can download the .NET Framework version 3.5 from the Microsoft Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=110508).

Enable ASP.NET 2.0ASP.NET 2.0 is required for proper functioning of Web content, the Central Administration Web Site, and many other features and functions of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Enable ASP.NET 2.0


2. In the Internet Information Services tree, click the plus sign (+) next to the server name, and then click the Web Service Extensions folder.

3. In the details pane, right-click ASP.NET v2.0.50727, and then click Allow.

Install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Windows Internal DatabaseWhen you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single server, run the Setup program using the Basic option. This option uses the Setup program's default parameters to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Windows Internal Database. Windows Internal Database uses SQL Server technology as a relational data store for Windows roles and features only, such as Windows SharePoint Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, UDDI Services, Windows Server Update Services, and Windows System Resources Manager..

Notes: If you uninstall Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and then later install Windows

SharePoint Services 3.0 on the same computer, the Setup program could fail when creating the configuration database causing the entire installation process to fail. You can prevent this failure by either deleting all the existing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases on the computer or by creating a new configuration database. You can create a new configuration database by running the following command:

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psconfig -cmd configdb -create -database <uniquename>

Run Setup

1. On the Read the Microsoft Software License Terms page, review the terms, select the I accept the terms of this agreement check box, and then click Continue.

2. On the Choose the installation you want page, click Basic to install to the default location. To install to a different location, click Advanced, and then on the Data Location tab, specify the location you want to install to and finish the installation.

3. When Setup finishes, a dialog box prompts you to complete the configuration of your server. Be sure that the Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard now check box is selected.

4. Click Close to start the configuration wizard.

Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard

1. On the Welcome to SharePoint Products and Technologies page, click Next. 2. In the dialog box that notifies you that some services might need to be restarted or reset

during configuration, click Yes.

3. On the Configuration Successful page, click Finish. Your new SharePoint site opens.

Note If you are prompted for your user name and password, you might need to add the SharePoint site to the list of trusted sites and configure user authentication settings in Internet Explorer. Instructions for configuring these settings are provided in the following procedure.

Note If you see a proxy server error message, you might need to configure your proxy server settings so that local addresses bypass the proxy server. Instructions for configuring proxy server settings are provided later in this section.

Add the SharePoint site to the list of trusted sites

1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.

2. On the Security tab, in the Select a Web content zone to specify its security settings box, click Trusted Sites, and then click Sites.

3. Clear the Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone check box.

4. In the Add this Web site to the zone box, type the URL to your site, and then click Add.

5. Click Close to close the Trusted Sites dialog box.

6. Click OK to close the Internet Options dialog box.

If you are using a proxy server in your organization, use the following steps to configure Internet Explorer to bypass the proxy server for local addresses.

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Configure proxy server settings to bypass the proxy server for local addresses


2. On the Connections tab, in the Local Area Network (LAN) settings area, click LAN Settings.

3. In the Automatic configuration section, clear the Automatically detect settings check box.

4. In the Proxy Server section, select the Use a proxy server for your LAN check box.

5. Type the address of the proxy server in the Address box.

6. Type the port number of the proxy server in the Port box.

7. Select the Bypass proxy server for local addresses check box.

8. Click OK to close the Local Area Network (LAN) Settings dialog box.


Post-installation stepsAfter Setup finishes, your browser window opens to the home page of your new SharePoint site. Although you can start adding content to the site or you can start customizing the site, we recommend that you perform the following administrative tasks by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site.

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. For more information, see Configure incoming e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services)

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 appear in outgoing alerts. For more information, see Configure outgoing e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services).

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. For more information, see Configure diagnostic logging settings (Windows SharePoint Services).

Configure antivirus protection settings You can configure several antivirus settings if you have an antivirus program that is designed for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Antivirus settings enable 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

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threads the antivirus program can use on the server. For more information, see Configure anti-virus settings (Windows SharePoint Services).

Create SharePoint sites When Setup finishes, you have a single Web application that contains a single SharePoint site collection that hosts a SharePoint site. You can create more SharePoint sites collections, sites, and Web applications if your site design requires multiple sites or multiple Web applications. For more information, see Deploy and configure SharePoint sites (Windows SharePoint Services).

Perform administrator tasks by using the Central Administration site

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrator Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

2. On the Central Administration home page, under Administrator Tasks, click the task you want to perform.

3. On the Administrator Tasks page, next to Action, click the task.

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Deploy in a simple server farm (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Deployment overview

Deploy and configure the server infrastructure

Perform additional configuration tasks

Create a site collection and a SharePoint site

Configure the trace log

This information applies to Microsoft Windows Server 2003. If you are in a Windows Server® 2008 environment, the steps to install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS), the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are different. For more information, see Deploy a simple farm on the Windows Server 2008 operating system (Windows SharePoint Services).

Deployment overviewImportant This article discusses how to do a clean installation of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment. It does not cover upgrading from previous releases of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or from previous releases of Windows SharePoint Services. For more information about upgrading from a previous release of Windows SharePoint Services, see Upgrading to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Note This article does not cover installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single computer as a stand-alone installation. For more information, see Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a stand-alone computer.

You can deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment if you are hosting a large number of sites, if you want the best possible performance, or if you want the scalability of a multi-tier topology. A server farm consists of one or more servers dedicated to running the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 application.


Because a server farm deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is more complex than a stand-alone deployment, we recommend that you plan your deployment. Planning your deployment can help you to gather the information you need and to make important decisions

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before beginning to deploy. For information about planning, see Planning and architecture for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology summary.

Deploying Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a DBA environmentIn many IT environments, database creation and management are handled by the database administrator (DBA). Security and other policies might require that the DBA create the databases required by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For more information about deploying using DBA-created databases, including detailed procedures that describe how the DBA can create these databases, see Deploy using DBA-created databases (Windows SharePoint Services).

Suggested topologiesServer farm environments can encompass a wide range of topologies and can include many servers or as few as two servers.

A server farm typically consists of a database server running either Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with the most recent service pack, and one or more servers running Internet Information Services (IIS) and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. In this configuration, the front-end servers are configured as Web servers. The Web server role provides Web content and services such as search.

A large server farm typically consists of two or more clustered database servers, several load-balanced front-end Web servers running IIS and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and two or more servers providing search services.

Before you begin deploymentThis section provides information about actions that you must perform before you begin deployment.

To deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment, you must provide credentials for several different accounts. For information about these accounts, see Plan for administrative and service accounts (Windows SharePoint Services).

You must install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on the same drive on all load-balanced front-end Web servers.

All the instances of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in the farm must be in the same language. For example, you cannot have both an English version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and a Japanese version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in the same farm.

You must install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a clean installation of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system with the most recent service pack. If you uninstall a previous version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and then install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Setup might fail to create the configuration database and the installation will fail.

Note We recommend that you read the Known Issues/Readme documentation before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a domain controller. Installing Windows

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SharePoint Services 3.0 on a domain controller requires additional configuration steps that are not discussed in this article.

Overview of the deployment processThe deployment process consists of two phases: deploying and configuring the server infrastructure, and deploying and configuring SharePoint site collections and sites.

Phase 1: Deploy and configure the server infrastructureDeploying and configuring the server infrastructure consists of the following steps:

Preparing the database server.

Preinstalling databases (optional).

Verifying that the servers meet hardware and software requirements.

Running Setup on all servers you want to be in the farm, including running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

Starting the Windows SharePoint Services Search service.

Phase 2: Deploy and configure SharePoint site collections and sitesDeploying and configuring SharePoint site collections and sites consists of the following steps:

Creating site collections.

Creating SharePoint sites.


Prepare the database serverThe database server computer must be running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 3a (SP3a) or later.

The Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Setup program automatically creates the necessary databases when you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Optionally, you can preinstall the required databases if your IT environment or policies require this.

For more information about prerequisites, see Determine hardware and software requirements (Windows SharePoint Services).

If you are using SQL Server 2005, you must also change the surface area settings.

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 2005 Surface Area Configuration dialog box, click Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections.

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3. In the tree view, expand the node for your instance of SQL Server, expand the Database Engine node, and then click Remote Connections.

4. Select Local and Remote Connections, select Using both TCP/IP and named pipes, and then click OK.

SQL Server and database collationThe SQL Server collation must be configured for case-insensitive. The SQL Server database collation must be configured for case-insensitive, accent-sensitive, Kana-sensitive, and width-sensitive. This is used to ensure file name uniqueness consistent with the Windows operating system. For more information about collations, see Selecting a SQL Collation (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121667&clcid=0x409) or Collation Settings in Setup (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121669&clcid=0x409) in SQL Server 2005 Books Online.

Required accountsThe following table describes the accounts that are used to configure SQL Server and to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For more information about the required accounts, including specific privileges required for these accounts, see Plan for administrative and service accounts (Windows SharePoint Services).

Account Purpose Requirements

SQL Server Service Account

This account is used as the service account for the following SQL Server services:

MSSQLSERVER

SQLSERVERAGENT

If you are not using the default instance, these services will be shown as:

MSSQL$InstanceName

SQLAgent$InstanceName

SQL Server prompts for this account during SQL Server Setup. You have two options:

Assign one of the built-in system accounts (Local System, Network Service, or Local Service) to the logon for the configurable SQL Server services. For more information about these accounts and security considerations, refer to the Setting Up Windows Service Accounts topic (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121664&clcid=0x409) in the SQL Server documentation.

Assign a domain user account to the logon for the service. However, if you use this option you must take the additional steps required to configure Service Principal Names (SPNs) in Active Directory in order to support Kerberos authentication, which SQL Server uses.

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Setup user account

The Setup user account is used to run the following:

Setup on each server

The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard

The PSConfig command-line tool

The Stsadm command-line tool

Domain user account

Member of the Administrators group on each server on which Setup is run

SQL Server login on the computer running SQL Server

Member of the following SQL Server security roles:

securityadmin fixed server role

dbcreator fixed server role

If you run Stsadm command-line tool commands that read from or write to a database, this account must be a member of the db_owner fixed database role for the database.

Server farm account/Database access account

The Server farm account is used to:

Act as the application pool identity for the SharePoint Central Administration application pool.

Run the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service.

Domain user account.

If the server farm is a child farm with Web applications that consume shared services from a larger farm, this account must be a member of the db_owner fixed database role on the configuration database of the larger farm.

Additional permissions are automatically granted for this account on Web servers and application servers that are joined to a server farm.

This account is automatically added as a SQL Server login on the computer running SQL Server and added to the following SQL Server security roles:



db_owner fixed database role for all databases in the server farm

Verify that servers meet hardware and software requirementsBefore you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, be sure that 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

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acting as a database server. For more information about these requirements, see Determine hardware and software requirements (Windows SharePoint Services).

Important Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 requires Active Directory directory services for farm deployments. Therefore Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cannot be installed in a farm on a Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 domain.

Install and configure IISInternet Information Services (IIS) is not installed or enabled by default in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. To make your server a Web server, you must install and enable IIS, and you must ensure that IIS is running in IIS 6.0 worker process isolation mode.

Install and configure IIS

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.


9. In the IIS Manager tree, click the plus sign (+) next to the server name, right-click the Web Sites folder, and then click 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 the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0Go to the Microsoft Download Center Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=72322&clcid=0x409), and on the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package page, follow the instructions for downloading and installing the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0. There are separate downloads for x86-based computers and x64-based computers. Be sure

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to download and install the appropriate version for your computer. The Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0 download contains the Windows Workflow Foundation technology, which is required by workflow features.

Note You can also use the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5. You can download the .NET Framework version 3.5 from the Microsoft Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=110508).

Enable ASP.NET 2.0You must enable ASP.NET 2.0 on all servers.

Enable ASP.NET 2.0


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.

Run Setup on all servers in the farmRun Setup and then the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on all your farm servers. Adding servers to the farm can be done at any time to add redundancy, such as additional load-balanced Web servers.

Note We recommend that you run Setup on all the servers that will be in the farm before you configure the farm.

When you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on the first server, you establish the farm. Any additional servers that you add must be joined to this farm.

Setting up the first server involves two steps: installing the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 components on the server, and configuring the farm. After Setup finishes, you can use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard automates several configuration tasks, including: installing and configuring the configuration database, installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services, and creating the Central Administration Web site.

Run Setup on the first serverWe recommend that you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on all of your farm servers before you configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services and create sites. You must have SQL Server running on at least one back-end database server before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on your farm servers.

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Note Setup installs the Central Administration Web site on the first server on which you run Setup. Therefore, we recommend that the first server on which you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a server from which you want to run the Central Administration Web site.

Run Setup on the first server

1. From the product disc, run Setup.exe, or from the product download, run WSSv3.exe, on one of your Web server computers.


3. On the Choose the installation you want page, click Advanced. The Basic option is for stand-alone installations.

4. On the Server Type tab, click Web Front End. The Stand-alone option is for stand-alone installations.

5. Optionally, to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 at a custom location, select the Data Location tab, and then type the location name or Browse to the location.

6. Optionally, to participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program, select the Feedback tab and select the option you want. To learn more about the program, click the link. You must have an Internet connection to view the program information.

7. When you have chosen the correct options, click Install Now.

8. When Setup finishes, a dialog box appears that prompts you to complete the configuration of your server. Be sure that the Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard now check box is selected.

9. Click Close to start the configuration wizard. Instructions for completing the wizard are provided in the next set of steps.

Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration WizardAfter Setup finishes, you can use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The configuration wizard automates several configuration tasks, including: installing and configuring the configuration database, installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services, and creating the Central Administration Web site. Use the following instructions to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.


1. On the Welcome to SharePoint Products and Technologies page, click Next.2. Click Yes in the dialog box that notifies you that some services might need to be restarted

during configuration.

3. On the Connect to a server farm page, click No, I want to create a new server farm, and

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then click Next.4. In the Specify Configuration Database Settings dialog box, in the Database server box,

type the name of the computer that is running SQL Server.

5. Type a name for your configuration database in the Database name box, or use the default database name. The default name is "SharePoint_Config".

6. In the User name box, type the user name of the server farm account. (Be sure to type the user name in the format DOMAIN\username.)

Important This account is the server farm account and 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. The user account that you specify as the service account must be a domain user account, but it does not need to be a member of any specific security group on your Web servers or your back-end database servers. We recommend that you follow the principle of least privilege and specify a user account that is not a member of the Administrators group on your Web servers or your back-end servers.

7. In the Password box, type the user's password, and then click Next.8. On the Configure SharePoint Central Administration Web Application page, select the

Specify port number check box and type a port number if you want the SharePoint Central Administration Web application to use a specific port, or leave the Specify port number check box cleared if you do not care which port number the SharePoint Central Administration Web application uses.

9. On the Configure SharePoint Central Administration Web Application dialog box, do one of the following:

If you want to use NTLM authentication (the default), click Next. If you want to use Kerberos authentication, click Negotiate (Kerberos), and then click

Next.

Note In most cases, you should use the default setting (NTLM). Use Negotiate (Kerberos) only if Kerberos authentication is supported in your environment. Using the Negotiate (Kerberos) option requires you to configure a Service Principal Name (SPN) for the domain user account. To do this, you must be a member of the Domain Admins group. For more information, see How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=76570&clcid=0x409).

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10. On the Completing the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard page, click Next.

11. On the Configuration Successful page, click Finish.

The SharePoint Central Administration Web site home page opens.

Note If you are prompted for your user name and password, you might need to add the SharePoint Central Administration site to the list of trusted sites and configure user authentication settings in Internet Explorer. Instructions for configuring these settings are provided in the next set of steps.

Note If a proxy server error message appears, you might need to configure your proxy server settings so that local addresses bypass the proxy server. Instructions for configuring this setting are provided later in this section.

Add the SharePoint Central Administration Web site to the list of trusted sites


2. On the Security tab, in the Select a Web content zone to specify its security settings box, click Trusted sites, and then click Sites.


4. In the Add this Web site to the zone box, type the URL for the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, and then click Add.

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Add servers to the farmWe recommend that you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on all of your farm servers before you configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services and create sites. You must have SQL Server running on at least one back-end database server before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on your farm servers.

Important If you uninstall Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from the first server on which you installed it, your farm might experience problems.

Run Setup on additional servers

1. From the product disc, run Setup.exe, or from the product download, run WSSv3.exe, on one of your Web server computers.









Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on additional serversAfter Setup finishes, use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The configuration wizard automates several configuration tasks, including: installing and configuring the configuration database, and installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services. Use the following instructions to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

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3. On the Connect to a server farm page, click Yes, I want to connect to an existing server farm, and then click Next.

4. In the Specify Configuration Database Settings dialog box, in the Database server box, type the name of the computer that is running SQL Server.

5. Click Retrieve Database Names, and then from the Database name list, select the database name that you created when you configured the first server in your server farm.

6. In the User name box, type the user name of the account used to connect to the computer running SQL Server. (Be sure to type the user name in the format DOMAIN\username.) This must be the same user account you used when configuring the first server.

7. In the Password box, type the user's password, and then click Next.8. On the Completing the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard page,

click Next.9. On the Configuration Successful page, click Finish.

Start the Windows SharePoint Services Search serviceYou must start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service on every computer that you want to search over content. You must start it on at least one of your servers.

Start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service

1. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Operations tab on the top link bar.

2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Servers in farm.

3. On the Servers in Farm page, click the server on which you want to start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service.

4. Next to Window SharePoint Services Search, click Start.5. On the Configure Windows SharePoint Services Search Service Settings page, in the

Service Account section, specify the user name and password for the user account under which the search service will run.

6. In the Content Access Account section, specify the user name and password for the user account that the search service will use to search over content. This account must have read access to all the content you want it to search over. If you do not enter credentials, the same account used for the search service will be used.

7. In the Indexing Schedule section, either accept the default settings, or specify the schedule that you want the search service to use when searching over content.

8. After you have configured all the settings, click Start.

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For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Spsearch: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

Perform additional configuration tasksAfter Setup finishes, your browser window opens to the home page of your new SharePoint site. Although you can start adding content to the site or customizing the site, we recommend that you first perform the following administrative tasks by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site.

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 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. For more information, see Configure incoming e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services).



Configure antivirus protection settings You can configure several antivirus settings if you have an antivirus program that is designed for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Antivirus settings enable 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. For more information, see Configure anti-virus settings (Windows SharePoint Services).


1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

2. On the Central Administration home page, in the Administrator Tasks section, click the task you want to perform.


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Create a site collection and a SharePoint siteThis section guides you through the process of creating a single site collection containing a single SharePoint site. You can create many site collections and many sites under each site collection. For more information, see Chapter overview: Deploy and configure SharePoint sites (Windows SharePoint Services).

You can create new portal sites or migrate pre-existing sites or content from a previous version of Windows SharePoint Services. For information about planning SharePoint sites and site collections, see Plan Web site structure and publishing (Windows SharePoint Services). For information about migrating content, see Deploy a new server farm, then migrate content databases.

You can also migrate content from a pre-existing Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 source. For information, see Upgrading to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Before you can create a site or a site collection, you must first create a Web application. A Web application is comprised of an Internet Information Services (IIS) site with a unique application pool. When you create a new Web application, you also create a new database and define the authentication method used to connect to the database.

If you are in an extranet environment where you want different users to access content by using different domains, you might also need to extend a Web application to another IIS Web site. This action exposes the same content to different sets of users by using an additional IIS Web site to host the same content.

Create a new Web application

1. In the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, on the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Web Application Management section, click Create or extend Web application.

2. On the Create or Extend Web Application page, in the Adding a SharePoint Web Application section, click Create a new Web application.

3. On the Create New Web Application page, in the IIS Web Site section, you can configure the settings for your new Web application.

a. To choose to use an existing Web site, select Use an existing Web site, and specify the Web site on which to install your new Web application by selecting it from the drop-down menu.

b. To choose to create a new Web site, select Create a new IIS Web site, and type the name of the Web site in the Description box.

c. In the Port box, type the port number you want to use to access the Web application. If you are creating a new Web site, this field is populated with a suggested port number. If you are using an existing Web site, this field is populated with the current port number.

d. In the Host Header box, type the URL you want to use to access the Web application. This is an optional field.

e. In the Path box, type the path to the site directory on the server. If you are creating a

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new Web site, this field is populated with a suggested path. If you are using an existing Web site, this field is populated with the current path.

4. In the Security Configuration section, configure authentication and encryption for your Web application.

a. In the Authentication Provider section, choose either Negotiate (Kerberos) or NTLM.

Note To enable Kerberos authentication, you must perform additional configuration. For more information about authentication methods, see Plan authentication methods (Windows SharePoint Services).

b. In the Allow Anonymous section, choose Yes or No. If you choose to allow anonymous access, this enables anonymous access to the Web site by using the computer-specific anonymous access account (that is, IUSR_<computername>).

Note If you want users to be able to access any site content anonymously, you must enable anonymous access for the entire Web application. Later, site owners can configure how anonymous access is used within their sites. For more information about anonymous access, see Choose which security groups to use (Windows SharePoint Services).

c. In the Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) section, select Yes or No. If you choose to enable SSL for the Web site, you must configure SSL by requesting and installing an SSL certificate.

Important If you use SSL, you must add the appropriate certificate on each server by using IIS administration tools. For more information about using SSL, see Plan for secure communication within a server farm (Windows SharePoint Services).

5. In the Load Balanced URL section, type the URL for the domain name for all sites that users will access in this Web application. This URL domain will be used in all links shown on pages within the Web application. By default, the box is populated with the current server name and port.

The Zone box is automatically set to Default for a new Web application, and cannot be changed from this page. To change the zone for a Web application, see Create or extend Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services).

6. In the Application Pool section, choose whether to use an existing application pool or create a new application pool for this Web application. To use an existing application pool, select Use existing application pool. Then select the application pool you want to use from the drop-down menu.

a. To create a new application pool, select Create a new application pool.b. In the Application pool name box, type the name of the new application pool, or keep

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the default name.

c. In the Select a security account for this application pool section, select Predefined to use an existing application pool security account, and then select the security account from the drop-down menu.

d. Select Configurable to use an account that is not currently being used as a security account for an existing application pool. In the User name box, type the user name of the account you want to use, and type the password for the account in the Password box.

7. In the Reset Internet Information Services section, choose whether to allow Windows SharePoint Services to restart IIS on other farm servers. The local server must be restarted manually for the process to finish. If this option is not selected and you have more than one server in the farm, you must wait until the IIS Web site is created on all servers and then run iisreset/noforce on each Web server. The new IIS site is not usable until that action is completed. The choices are unavailable if your farm only contains a single server.

8. In the Database Name and Authentication section, choose the database server, database name, and authentication method for your new Web application.

Item Action

Database Server Type the name of the database server and Microsoft SQL Server instance you want to use in the format <SERVERNAME\instance>. You can also use the default entry.

Database Name Type the name of the database, or use the default entry.

Database Authentication Choose whether to use Windows authentication (recommended) or SQL authentication.

If you want to use Windows authentication, leave this option selected.

If you want to use SQL authentication, select SQL authentication. In the Account box, type the name of the account you want the Web application to use to authenticate to the SQL Server database, and then type the password in the Password box.

9. Click OK to create the new Web application, or click Cancel to cancel the process and return to the Application Management page.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Createsiteinnewdb: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

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1. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Application Management tab on the top link bar.

2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Create site collection.

3. On the Create Site Collection page, in the Web Application section, select a Web application to host the site collection from the Web Application drop-down list.

4. In the Title and Description section, type a title and description for the site collection.

5. In the Web Site Address section, select a URL type (personal or sites), and then type a URL for the site collection.

6. In the Template Selection section, select a template from the tabbed template control.

7. In the Primary Site Collection Administrator section, specify the user account for the user you want to be the primary administrator for the site collection. You can also browse for the user account by clicking the Book icon to the right of the text box. You can check the user account by clicking the Check Names icon to the right of the text box.

8. Optionally, in the Secondary Site Collection Administrator section, specify the user account for the user you want to be the secondary administrator for the site collection. You can also browse for the user account by clicking the Book icon to the right of the text box. You can check the user account by clicking the Check Names icon to the right of the text box.

9. Click Create to create the site collection.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Createsite: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

Create a SharePoint site


2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Site collection list.

3. On the Site Collection List page, in the URL column, click the URL for the site collection to which you want to add a site. The full URL path for the site collection appears in the URL box.

4. Copy and paste the full URL path into your browser, and then, on the home page of the top-level site for the site collection, on the Site Actions menu, click Create.

5. On the Create page, in the Web Pages section, click Sites and Workplaces.

6. On the New SharePoint Site page, in the Title and Description section, type a title and description for the site.

7. In the Web Site Address section, type a URL for the site.


9. Either change other settings, or click Create to create the site.

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10. The new site opens.

After creating sites, you might want to configure alternate access mappings. Alternate access mappings direct users to the correct URLs during their interaction with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (while browsing to the home page of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site, for example). Alternate access mappings enable Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to map Web requests to the correct Web applications and sites, and they enable Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to serve the correct content back to the user. For more information, see Plan alternate access mappings (Windows SharePoint Services).

Configure the trace logThe trace log can be useful for analyzing problems that might occur. You can use events that are written to the trace log to determine what configuration changes were made in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 before the problem occurred.

By default, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 saves two days of events in the trace log files. This means that trace log files that contain events that are older than two days are deleted. When you are using the Windows SharePoint Services Search service, we recommend that you configure the trace log to save seven days of events.

You can use the Diagnostic Logging page in Central Administration to configure the maximum number of trace log files to maintain and how long (in minutes) to capture events to each log file. By default, 96 log files are kept, each one containing 30 minutes of events.

96 log files * 30 minutes of events per file = 2880 minutes or two days of events.

You can also specify the location where the log files are written or accept the default path.

Configure the trace log to save seven days of events

1. In Central Administration, on the Operations tab, in the Logging and Reporting section, click Diagnostic logging.

2. On the Diagnostic Logging page, in the Trace Log section, do the following:

In the Number of log files box, type 336.

In the Number of minutes to use a log file box, type 30.

Tip To save 10,080 minutes (seven days) of events, you can use any combination of number of log files and minutes to store in each log file.

3. Ensure that the path specified in the Path box has enough room to store the extra log files, or change the path to another location.

Tip We recommend that you store log files on a hard drive partition that is used to store log files only.

4. Click OK.

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Trace log files can help you to troubleshoot issues related to configuration changes of the Windows SharePoint Services Search service. Because problems related to configuration changes are not always immediately discovered, we recommend that you save all trace log files that the system creates on any day that you make any configuration changes related to either search service. Store these log files for an extended period of time in a safe location that will not be overwritten. See step 3 in the previous procedure to determine the location that the system stores trace log files for your system.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Logging and Events: Stsadm operations (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Deploy using DBA-created databases (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

About deploying by using DBA-created databases

Required database hardware and software

Required accounts

Create and configure the databases


About deploying by using DBA-created databasesIn many IT environments, database administrators (DBAs) create and manage databases. Security policies and other policies in your organization might require that DBAs create the databases that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 requires. This article discusses how DBAs can create these databases and farm administrators can configure them.

This article describes how to deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in an environment in which DBAs create and manage databases. The deployment includes all the required databases and one portal site. This article only applies to farms that use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with the most recent service pack or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database software.

Some procedures in this article use the Psconfig and Stsadm command-line tools. These tools are both located in the following folder: Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN.

Note This article does not cover using the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 graphical user interface tools to create or configure databases. For information about creating and configuring databases by using the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 graphical user interface tools, see Deploy in a simple server farm (Windows SharePoint Services).

By using the procedures in this article, DBAs and farm administrators create and configure the following databases and components in the following order:

1. Configuration database (only one per farm).

2. Content database for Central Administration (only one per farm).

3. Central Administration Web application (only one per farm — created by Setup).

4. Windows SharePoint Services search database (only one per farm).

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5. Web application content databases (optional). There is one content database for each Web application; extending a Web application does not require an additional content database.

6. Web applications (optional).

Note As part of the Web site and application pool creation process, a Web application is also created in Internet Information Services (IIS). Extending a Web application will create an additional Web site in IIS, but not an additional application pool.

Required database hardware and softwareBefore you install and configure the databases, be sure that your database servers have the recommended hardware and software. For more information about these requirements, see Determine hardware and software requirements (Windows SharePoint Services).

If you are using SQL Server 2005 database software, the DBA must configure surface area settings so that local and remote connections use TCP/IP only. All of the databases required by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 use the Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS collation. All of the databases require that the Setup user account be assigned to them as the database owner (or dbo). For more information about the security requirements for these databases, see Plan for administrative and service accounts (Windows SharePoint Services).

Required accountsThe DBA needs to create SQL Server logins for the accounts that are used to access the databases for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and add them to roles. For more information about required accounts, including specific permissions and user rights required for these accounts, see Plan for administrative and service accounts (Windows SharePoint Services).

The following table describes the accounts that are used to access the databases for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.




MSSQLSERVER

SQLSERVERAGENT


MSSQL$InstanceName


Assign one of the built-in system accounts (Local System, Network Service, or Local Service) to the logon for the configurable SQL Server services. For more information about these accounts and security considerations, refer to the Setting Up Windows Service Accounts topic

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SQLAgent$InstanceName (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121664&clcid=0x409) in the SQL Server documentation.

Assign a domain user account to the logon for the service. However, if you use this option you must take the additional steps required to configure Service Principal Names (SPNs) in Active Directory in order to support Kerberos authentication, which SQL Server uses.

Setup user account






Domain user account













Additional permissions are automatically granted for this account on Web servers and application servers that are joined to a server

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Note If you are using the least-privilege principle for added security, use a different account for each service, process, and application pool identity for each Web application.

Create and configure the databasesUse the procedures in this section to create the required databases and give the appropriate accounts membership in the database security groups or roles.

The procedures require action by the DBA and the Setup user account. Each step is labeled [DBA] or [Setup] to indicate which role performs the action.

The farm only has one configuration database and one content database for Central Administration. The following procedure is performed once for each farm.

Create and configure the configuration database, the Central Administration content database, and the Central Administration Web application

1. [DBA] Create the configuration database and the Central Administration content database using the LATIN1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS collation sequence and set the database owner (dbo) to be the Setup user account.

2. [Setup] Run Setup on each of the server computers that run Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. You must run Setup on at least one of these computers by using the Web front end installation option.

3. [Setup] On the computer on which you used the Web front end installation option, do not run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard after Setup. Instead, open the command line, and then run the following command to configure the databases:

Psconfig –cmd configdb –create –server <SQL Server Name> –database <SQL Database Name> –user <Domain Name\User Name> –password <password> –admincontentdatabase <SQL Admin Content Database Name>

Note SQL Database Name is the configuration database. Domain Name\User Name is

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the server farm account. SQL Admin Content Database Name is the Central Administration content database.

4. [Setup] After the command has completed, run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard and complete the remainder of the configuration for your server. This creates the Central Administration Web application and performs other setup and configuration tasks.

The following procedure will only have to be performed once for the farm. The farm only has one Windows SharePoint Services search database.

Create and configure the Windows SharePoint Services search database and start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service.

1. [DBA] Create a database for the Windows SharePoint Services Search database using the LATIN1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS collation sequence and set the database owner (dbo) to be the Setup user account.

2. [Setup] Open the command line, and then run the following command to configure the database and start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service:

stsadm -o spsearch -action start -farmserviceaccount <Domain Name\User Name> -farmservicepassword <password> -farmcontentaccessaccount <Domain Name\User Name> -farmcontentaccesspassword <password> -databaseserver <Server\Instance> -databasename <Database Name>

Note farmserviceaccount is the server farm account. farmcontentaccessaccount is the Windows SharePoint Services Search service account. For databaseserver, if you are using the default instance of SQL Server, you only have to specify the name of the computer running SQL Server. The databasename is the Windows SharePoint Services Search database.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Spsearch: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

The following procedure is performed once for each portal site in the farm.

Create and configure the portal site Web application and content database

1. [DBA] Create the portal site Web application content database using the LATIN1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS collation sequence and set the database owner (dbo) to be the Setup user account.

2. [DBA] Using SQL Server Management Studio, add the application pool process account to the Users group and the db_owner role for the Web application content database.

3. [Setup] Open the command line, and then run the following command to create the Web application and configure the portal site Web application content database:

stsadm.exe -o extendvs -url <URL> -donotcreatesite -exclusivelyusentlm -databaseserver <Database Server Name> -databasename <Database Name> -apidtype

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configurableid -description <IIS Web Site Name> -apidname <App Pool Name> -apidlogin <Domain Name\User Name> -apidpwd <password>

Note url is the URL (in the form http://hostname:port) of the portal site Web application. databasename is the content database for the portal site Web application. description is the text name you give to the Web site in IIS. apidname is the text name that you give to the Web application pool in IIS. apidlogin is the identity for the application pool in IIS. This is the application pool process account.

Important This command must be run on the same computer that is indicated in the url parameter. This is the same computer that will be running the portal site Web application. The host name and port combination must not describe a Web application that already exists or an error results and the Web application is not created.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Extendvs: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Deploy a simple farm on the Windows Server 2008 operating system (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Deployment overview


Perform additional configuration tasks

Create a site collection and a SharePoint site


As of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1 (SP1), you can now install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows Server 2008. As with the Windows Server 2003 operating system, you must download and run Setup and the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard. You cannot install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 without service packs on Windows Server 2008.

Important The following components are required for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to run correctly: the Web Server role, the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0, and Active Directory Domain Services. Do not uninstall them, or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 will cease to run.

Deployment overviewImportant This article discusses how to do a clean installation of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 in a server farm environment on Windows Server 2008. It does not cover upgrading the operating system from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008. For more information about upgrading the operating system, see Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1.

Note This article does not cover installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single computer as a stand-alone installation on Windows Server 2008. For more information, see Install a stand-alone server on Windows Server 2008 (Windows SharePoint Services).

You can deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment if you are hosting a large number of sites, if you want the best possible performance, or if you want the scalability of

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a multi-tier topology. A server farm consists of one or more servers dedicated to running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.


Because a server farm deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is more complex than a stand-alone deployment, we recommend that you plan your deployment. Planning your deployment can help you to gather the information you need and to make important decisions before beginning to deploy. For information about planning, see Planning and architecture for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology summary.

Deploying Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a DBA environmentIn many IT environments, database creation and management are handled by the database administrator (DBA). Security and other policies might require that the DBA create the databases required by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For more information about deploying using DBA-created databases, including detailed procedures that describe how the DBA can create these databases, see Deploy using DBA-created databases (Windows SharePoint Services).

Suggested topologiesServer farm environments can encompass a wide range of topologies and can include many servers or as few as two servers.




To deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment, you must provide credentials for several different accounts. For information about these accounts, see Plan for administrative and service accounts (Windows SharePoint Services).



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Note We recommend that you read the Known Issues/Readme documentation before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a domain controller. Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a domain controller requires additional configuration steps that are not discussed in this article.




Preinstalling databases (optional).


Running Setup on all servers you want to be in the farm, including running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.



Creating site collections.

Creating SharePoint sites.


Prepare the database serverThe database server computer must be running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with the most recent service pack.




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SQL Server and database collationThe SQL Server collation must be configured for case-insensitive. The SQL Server database collation must be configured for case-insensitive, accent-sensitive, Kana-sensitive, and width-sensitive. This is used to ensure file name uniqueness consistent with the Windows operating system. For more information about collations, see Selecting a SQL Collation (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121667&clcid=0x409) or Collation Settings in Setup (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121669&clcid=0x409) in SQL Server 2005 Books Online.

Required accountsThe following table describes the accounts that are used to configure SQL Server and to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For more information about the required accounts, including specific role memberships and permissions required for these accounts, see Plan for administrative and service accounts [Windows SharePoint Services].




MSSQLSERVER

SQLSERVERAGENT


MSSQL$InstanceName

SQLAgent$InstanceName


Assign one of the built-in system accounts (Local System, Network Service, or Local Service) to the logon for the configurable SQL Server services. For more information about these accounts and security considerations, refer to the Setting Up Windows Service Accounts topic (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=121664&clcid=0x409) in the SQL Server documentation.

Assign a domain user account to the logon for the service. However, if you

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use this option you must take the additional steps required to configure Service Principal Names (SPNs) in Active Directory in order to support Kerberos authentication, which SQL Server uses.

Setup user account






Domain user account













Additional permissions are automatically granted for this account on Web servers and application servers that are joined to a server farm.




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Verify that servers meet hardware and software requirementsBefore you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, be sure that 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. For more information about these requirements, see Determine hardware and software requirements (Windows SharePoint Services).

Important Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 requires Active Directory Domain Services for farm deployments in a Windows Server 2008 environment.

Install Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0Before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows Server 2008, you must install the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0. You do not need to install the Web Server role or the Windows Process Activation Service; these are installed automatically along with the Windows Internal Database when you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Service Pack 1. Use the following procedure to install Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0.

Install Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0

1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.2. In Server Manager, on the Action menu, click Add features.

3. In the Features list, select the .NET Framework 3.0 Features check box, and then click Next.

4. Follow the wizard steps to install Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0.

Run Setup on all servers in the farmRun Setup and then the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on all your farm servers. Adding servers to the farm can be done at any time to add redundancy — for example, adding load-balanced Web servers.



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Setting up the first server involves two steps: installing the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 components on the server, and configuring the farm. After Setup finishes, you can use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard automates several configuration tasks, including: installing and configuring the configuration database, installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services, and creating the Central Administration Web site.

Run Setup on the first serverWe recommend that you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on all of your farm servers before you configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services and create sites. You must have SQL Server database software running on at least one back-end database server before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on your farm servers.

Note Setup installs the Central Administration Web site on the first server on which you run Setup. Therefore, we recommend that the first server on which you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a server on which you want to run the Central Administration Web site.


1. Download Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 from the Microsoft Web site, and then run SharePoint.exe on one of your Web server computers.









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Note Do not add any server roles in Windows Server 2008 Server Manager before setup for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is complete. If you add a server role, the setup process will fail and you will need to uninstall and reinstall Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration WizardAfter Setup finishes, you can use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The configuration wizard automates several configuration tasks, including: installing and configuring the configuration database, installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services, and creating the Central Administration Web site. Use the following instructions to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.




3. On the Connect to a server farm page, click No, I want to create a new server farm, and then click Next.


5. Type a name for your configuration database in the Database name box, or use the default database name. The default name is "SharePoint_Config".


Important This account is the server farm account and 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, and to the dbcreator and securityadmin fixed server roles in SQL Server. The user account that you specify as the service account must be a domain user account, but it does not need to be a member of any specific security group on your Web servers or your back-end database servers. We recommend that you follow the principle of least-privilege administration by specifying a user account that is not a member of the Administrators group on your Web servers or your back-end servers.


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Specify port number check box and type a port number if you want the SharePoint Central Administration Web application to use a specific port, or leave the Specify port number check box cleared if you do not care which port number the SharePoint Central Administration Web application uses.

9. On the Configure SharePoint Central Administration Web Application dialog box, do one of the following:


Next.

Note In most cases, you should use the default setting (NTLM). Use Negotiate (Kerberos) only if Kerberos authentication is supported in your environment. Using the Negotiate (Kerberos) option requires you to configure a service principal name (SPN) for the domain user account. To do this, you must be a member of the Domain Admins group. For more information, see How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=76570&clcid=0x409).




Note If you are prompted for your user name and password, you might need to add the SharePoint Central Administration site to the list of trusted sites and configure user authentication settings in Internet Explorer. Instructions for configuring these settings are provided in the next set of steps.







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Add servers to the farmWe recommend that you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on all of your farm servers before you configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services and create sites. You must have SQL Server running on at least one back-end database server before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on your farm servers.


SharePoint Services 3.0 on the same computer, the Setup program could fail when creating the configuration database causing the entire installation process to fail. You can prevent this failure by either deleting all the existing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases on the computer or by creating a new configuration database. You can create a new configuration database by running the following command from the path %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\bin:

psconfig -cmd configdb -create -database <unique database name>


1. Download Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 from the Microsoft Web site, and then run SharePoint.exe on one of your additional Web server computers.



4. On the Server Type tab, click Web Front End. The Stand-alone option is for stand-alone

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Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on additional serversAfter Setup finishes, use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The configuration wizard automates several configuration tasks, including: installing and configuring the configuration database, and installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services. Use the following instructions to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.






5. Click Retrieve Database Names, and then from the Database name list, select the database name that you created when you configured the first server in your server farm.

6. In the User name box, type the user name of the account used to connect to the computer running SQL Server. (Be sure to type the user name in the format DOMAIN\username.) This must be the same user account you used when configuring the first server.



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4. Next to Window SharePoint Services Search, click Start.5. On the Configure Windows SharePoint Services Search Service Settings page, in the

Service Account section, specify the user name and password for the user account under which the search service will run.

6. In the Content Access Account section, specify the user name and password for the user account that the search service will use to search over content. This account must have read access to all the content you want it to search over. If you do not enter credentials, the same account used for the search service will be used.

7. In the Indexing Schedule section, either accept the default settings, or specify the schedule that you want the search service to use when searching over content.


Configure Windows Firewall with Advanced Security After you create Web applications in your server farm, you must use Windows Firewall with Advanced Security in Windows Server 2008 to open ports on computers that host Web Applications.

After you create Web applications in your server farm, you must use Windows Firewall with Advanced Security in Windows Server 2008 to open ports on computers that host Web Applications.

By default, port 80 is open on Web servers, but to be able to communicate with other computers you must open the port for Central Administration. You must also open the ports for any additional Web applications that you create in your server farm.

The default configuration of the Windows Server 2008 firewall is to deny all connections unless there is an exception. Make sure you create the exceptions for the currently enabled profile (Private, Public, or Domain) when you are making changes to ports. If you create the exceptions in the wrong profile they will not work.

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Note If you configure host headers in IIS, the ports for the Web Applications will be created on port 80 and you may not have to perform the procedures in this section. If, however, you use the host header mode in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to create multiple domain-named sites in a single Web application you will need to perform the procedures in this section to determine which ports the Web applications, including Central Administration, will use in your server farm.

Determine ports used by Web Applications


2. On the Central Administration site, click Application Management. 3. On the Application Management Web page, in the SharePoint Web Application

Management section, click Web application list. 4. On the Web Application List Web page, in the URL column, the server name with port

number is listed for each Web application.

You should use Windows Firewall with Advanced Security to open the ports required for your server farm as identified in the Determine ports used by Web Applications procedure.

For ease in managing the rules, we recommend that you create one rule per Web application. Alternatively, for more centralized rule management you can create one rule to manage all the ports.

For Web applications you only need to create a rule to open a port for incoming connections.

Configure Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.

2. On the details pane, in the Overview section, verify that the domain profile is active by noting if the domain network location entry displays Domain Profile is Active.

3. In the Domain Profile is Active area, depending on how the inbound connections rule is configured, choose one of these options.

If it is Inbound connections that do not match a rule are allowed, then you do not need to complete this procedure.

If it is Inbound connections that do not match a rule are blocked, then you must proceed to the next step in this procedure to configure the firewall to allow Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 traffic.

4. On the console tree, select Inbound Rules, and then in the action pane click New Rule.

5. Complete the New Inbound Rule Wizard using the settings from the following table.

Wizard page Settings

Rule Type Select Port.

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287748(TechNet.10).aspx#BKMK_DeterminePortsUsedByWebApplications

Wizard page Settings

Protocol and Ports Select TCP.

Select Specific local ports. In the Specific local ports text box, identify all the ports that you need.

Action Select Allow the connection.

Profile Enable Domain.

Clear Private and Public.

Name In the Name and Description text boxes type information that is both descriptive and meaningful for your network administrators. As a best practice, we recommend that you give the firewall rules a unique name. Unique names makes management using the netsh commands much easier.

For more information about Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, see Windows Firewall.

Perform additional configuration tasksAfter Setup finishes, your browser window opens to the home page of your new SharePoint site. Although you can start adding content to the site or customizing the site, we recommend that you first perform the following administrative tasks by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site.

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. For more information, see Configure incoming e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services).


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

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events. For more information, see Configure diagnostic logging settings (Windows SharePoint Services).

Configure antivirus protection settings You can configure several antivirus settings if you have an antivirus program that is designed for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Antivirus settings enable 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. For more information, see Configure anti-virus settings (Windows SharePoint Services).



2. On the Central Administration home page, in the Administrator Tasks section, click the task you want to perform.


Create a site collection and a SharePoint siteThis section guides you through the process of creating a single site collection containing a single SharePoint site. You can create many site collections and many sites under each site collection. For more information, see Chapter overview: Deploy and configure SharePoint sites (Windows SharePoint Services). For information about planning SharePoint sites and site collections, see Plan Web site structure and publishing (Windows SharePoint Services).

Before you can create a site or a site collection, you must first create a Web application. A Web application is composed of an Internet Information Services (IIS) site with a unique application pool. When you create a new Web application, you also create a new database and define the authentication method used to connect to the database.






a. To choose to use an existing Web site, select Use an existing Web site, and specify

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the Web site on which to install your new Web application by selecting it from the drop-down menu.




e. In the Path box, type the path to the site directory on the server. If you are creating a new Web site, this field is populated with a suggested path. If you are using an existing Web site, this field is populated with the current path.





Note If you want users to be able to access any site content anonymously, you must enable anonymous access for the entire Web application. Later, site owners can configure how anonymous access is used within their sites. For more information about anonymous access, see Choose which security groups to use (Windows SharePoint Services).



5. In the Load Balanced URL section, type the URL for the domain name for all sites that users will access in this Web application. This URL domain will be used in all links shown

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on pages within the Web application. By default, the box is populated with the current server name and port.

The Zone box is automatically set to Default for a new Web application, and cannot be changed from this page. To change the zone for a Web application, see Create or extend Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services).



the default name.



7. In the Reset Internet Information Services section, choose whether to allow Windows SharePoint Services to restart IIS on other farm servers. The local server must be restarted manually for the process to finish. If this option is not selected and you have more than one server in the farm, you must wait until the IIS Web site is created on all servers and then run iisreset/noforce on each Web server. The new IIS site is not usable until that action is completed. The choices are unavailable if your farm only contains a single server.


Item Action

Database Server Type the name of the database server and Microsoft SQL Server instance you want to use in the format <Server name\instance>. You can also use the default entry.



If you want to use Windows authentication, leave this option

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Item Action

selected.





2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Create site collection.

3. On the Create Site Collection page, in the Web Application section, select a Web application to host the site collection from the Web Application drop-down list.

4. In the Title and Description section, type a title and description for the site collection.

5. In the Web Site Address section, select a URL type (personal or sites), and then type a URL for the site collection.


7. In the Primary Site Collection Administrator section, specify the user account for the user you want to be the primary administrator for the site collection. You can also browse for the user account by clicking the Book icon to the right of the text box. You can check the user account by clicking the Check Names icon to the right of the text box.

8. Optionally, in the Secondary Site Collection Administrator section, specify the user account for the user you want to be the secondary administrator for the site collection. You can also browse for the user account by clicking the Book icon to the right of the text box. You can check the user account by clicking the Check Names icon to the right of the text box.

9. Click Create to create the site collection.

Create a SharePoint site


2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click

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Site collection list.3. On the Site Collection List page, in the URL column, click the URL for the site collection to

which you want to add a site. The full URL path for the site collection appears in the URL box.

4. Copy and paste the full URL path into your browser, and then, on the home page of the top-level site for the site collection, on the Site Actions menu, click Create.

5. On the Create page, in the Web Pages section, click Sites and Workplaces.

6. On the New SharePoint Site page, in the Title and Description section, type a title and description for the site.

7. In the Web Site Address section, type a URL for the site.


9. Either change other settings, or click Create to create the site.

10. The new site opens.

After creating sites, you might want to configure alternate access mappings. Alternate access mappings direct users to the correct URLs during their interaction with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (while browsing to the home page of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site, for example). Alternate access mappings enable Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to map Web requests to the correct Web applications and sites, and they enable Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to serve the correct content back to the user. For more information, see Plan alternate access mappings (Windows SharePoint Services).

Configure the trace logThe trace log can be useful for analyzing problems that might occur. You can use events that are written to the trace log to determine what configuration changes were made in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 before the problem occurred.

By default, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 saves two days of events in the trace log files. This means that trace log files that contain events that are older than two days are deleted. When you are using the Windows SharePoint Services Search service, we recommend that you configure the trace log to save seven days of events.







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3. Ensure that the path specified in the Path box has enough room to store the extra log files, or change the path to another location.


4. Click OK.

Trace log files can help you to troubleshoot issues related to configuration changes of the Windows SharePoint Services Search service. Because problems related to configuration changes are not always immediately discovered, we recommend that you save all trace log files that the system creates on any day that you make any configuration changes related to either search service. Store these log files for an extended period of time in a safe location that will not be overwritten. See step 3 in the previous procedure to determine the location that the system stores trace log files for your system.

Configure Windows Server BackupIf you want to use Windows Server Backup with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must configure the following registry keys. If you do not configure these registry keys, Windows Server Backup will not work properly with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Important You must be logged on as a member of the Administrators group on the local server computer to edit the registry. Incorrectly editing the registry might severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on the computer.

Configure registry keys for Windows Server Backup

1. Click Start, click Run, and in the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.

2. In the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue to open the Registry Editor.

3. Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\4. On the Edit menu, click New, and then click Key.

5. Type WindowsServerBackup, and then press ENTER.

6. Select the WindowsServerBackup key, and then on the Edit menu, click New, and then

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click Key.

7. Type Application Support, and then press ENTER.

8. Select the Application Support key, and then on the Edit menu, click New, and then click Key.

9. Type {c2f52614-5e53-4858-a589-38eeb25c6184} as the key name and then press ENTER.

This is the GUID for the WSS Writer.

10. Select the new key, and then on the Edit menu, click New, and then click String Value.

11. Type Application Identifier as the new value name, and then press ENTER.

12. Right click the Application Identifier value, and then click Modify.

13. In the Value Data box, type Windows SharePoint Services, and then click OK.

14. On the Edit menu, click New, and then click DWORD (32-bit) Value.

15. Type UseSameVssContext as the new value name, and then press ENTER.

16. Right-click the UseSameVssContext value, and then click Modify.

17. In the Value Data box, type 00000001, and then click OK.

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Install a stand-alone server on Windows Server 2008 (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Hardware and software requirements

Install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1

Post-installation steps


Configure Windows Server Backup

As of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1), you can now install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows Server 2008. As with the Windows Server 2003 operating system, you must download and run Setup and the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard. You cannot install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 without service packs on Windows Server 2008.

Important This article discusses how to do a clean installation of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 in a stand-alone environment on Windows Server 2008. It does not cover upgrading the operating system from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008. For more information about upgrading the operating system, see Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1.

Note This article does not cover installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm installation on Windows Server 2008. For more information, see Deploy a simple farm on the Windows Server 2008 operating system (Windows SharePoint Services).

You can quickly publish a SharePoint site by deploying Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single server computer. A stand-alone configuration is useful if you want to evaluate Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 features and capabilities, such as collaboration, document management, and search. A stand-alone configuration is also useful if you are deploying a small number of Web sites and you want to minimize administrative overhead. When you deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single server using the default settings, the Setup program automatically installs the Windows Internal Database and uses it to create the configuration database and an initial content database for your SharePoint sites. Windows Internal Database uses SQL Server technology as a relational data store for Windows roles and features only, such as Windows SharePoint Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, UDDI Services, Windows Server Update Services, and Windows System Resources Manager.. In addition, Setup installs the SharePoint Central Administration Web site and creates your first SharePoint site collection and site.

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Important The following components are required for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to run correctly: the Web Server role, the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0, and Windows Internal Database. Do not uninstall them, or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 will cease to run.


Hardware and software requirementsBefore you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, be sure that your servers have the required hardware and software. For more information about these requirements, see Determine hardware and software requirements (Windows SharePoint Services).

Install Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0Before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows Server 2008, you must install the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0. You do not need to install the Web Server role or the Windows Process Activation Service; these are installed automatically along with the Windows Internal Database when you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Service Pack 1.Use the following procedure to install Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0.

Install Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0

1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.2. In Server Manager, on the Action menu, click Add features.

3. In the Features list, select the .NET Framework 3.0 Features check box, and then click Next.

4. Follow the wizard steps to install Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0.

Install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1When you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single server, run the Setup program using the Basic option. This option uses the Setup program's default parameters to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Windows Internal Database.


SharePoint Services 3.0 on the same computer, the Setup program could fail when creating the configuration database causing the entire installation process to fail. You can prevent this failure by either deleting all the existing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases on the computer or by creating a new configuration database. You can create

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a new configuration database by running the following command from the path %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\bin:

psconfig -cmd configdb -create -database <unique database name>

Download and run setup for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1

1. Download Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 from the Microsoft Web site, and then run SharePoint.exe.


3. On the Choose the installation you want page, click Basic to install to the default location. To install to a different location, click Advanced, and then on the Data Location tab, specify the location you want to install to and finish the installation.

4. When Setup finishes, a dialog box prompts you to complete the configuration of your server. Be sure that the Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard now check box is selected.

5. Click Close to start the wizard.

Note Do not add any server roles in Windows Server 2008 Server Manager before setup for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is complete. If you add a server role, the setup process will fail, and you will need to uninstall and reinstall Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.


1. On the Welcome to SharePoint Products and Technologies page, click Next. 2. In the dialog box that notifies you that some services might need to be restarted or reset

during configuration, click Yes.

3. On the Configuration Successful page, click Finish. Your new SharePoint site opens.

Note If you are prompted for your user name and password, you might need to add the SharePoint site to the list of trusted sites and configure user authentication settings in Internet Explorer. Instructions for configuring these settings are provided in the following procedure.

Note If you see a proxy server error message, you might need to configure your proxy server settings so that local addresses bypass the proxy server. Instructions for configuring proxy server settings are provided later in this section.

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Add the SharePoint site to the list of trusted sites


2. On the Security tab, in the Select a Web content zone to specify its security settings box, click Trusted Sites, and then click Sites.


4. In the Add this Web site to the zone box, type the URL to your site, and then click Add.

5. Click Close to close the Trusted Sites dialog box.


If you are using a proxy server in your organization, use the following steps to configure Internet Explorer to bypass the proxy server for local addresses.











Post-installation stepsAfter Setup finishes, your browser window opens to the home page of your new SharePoint site. Although you can start adding content to the site or you can start customizing the site, we recommend that you perform the following administrative tasks by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site.


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

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notifications to site administrators. You can configure both the "From" e-mail address and the "Reply" e-mail address that appear in outgoing alerts. For more information, see Configure outgoing e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services).


Configure antivirus protection settings You can configure several antivirus settings if you have an antivirus program that is designed for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Antivirus settings enable 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. For more information, see Configure anti-virus settings (Windows SharePoint Services).

Create SharePoint sites When Setup finishes, you have a single Web application that contains a single SharePoint site collection that hosts a SharePoint site. You can create more SharePoint sites collections, sites, and Web applications if your site design requires multiple sites or multiple Web applications. For more information, see Deploy and configure SharePoint sites (Windows SharePoint Services).

Note If you create additional Web applications to host SharePoint sites, you must also configure Windows Firewall to allow communication on the ports for those Web applications. For more information, see Deploy a simple farm on the Windows Server 2008 operating system (Windows SharePoint Services).



2. On the Central Administration home page, under Administrator Tasks, click the task you want to perform.


Configure the trace logThe trace log can be useful for analyzing problems that might occur. You can use events that are written to the trace log to identify what configuration changes were made in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 before the problem occurred.

By default, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 saves two days of events in the trace log files. This means that trace log files that contain events that are older than two days are deleted. When using the Windows SharePoint Services Search service, we recommend that you configure the trace log to save seven days of events.

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3. Ensure that the path specified in the Path box has enough room to store the extra log files or change the path to another location.


4. Click OK.

Trace log files can help you to troubleshoot issues related to configuration changes of the Windows SharePoint Services Search service. Because problems related to configuration changes are not always immediately discovered, we recommend that you save all trace log files that the system creates on any day that you make any configuration changes related to the search service. Store these log files for an extended period of time in a safe location that will not be overwritten. See step 3 in the previous procedure to determine the location that the system stores trace log files for your system.

Configure Windows Server BackupIf you want to use Windows Server Backup with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must configure the following registry keys. If you do not configure these registry keys, Windows Server Backup will not work properly with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Important You must be logged on as a member of the Administrators group on the local server computer to edit the registry. Incorrectly editing the registry might severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on the computer.

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Configure registry keys for Windows Server Backup

1. Click Start, click Run, and in the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.

2. In the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue to open the Registry Editor.

3. Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\4. On the Edit menu, click New, and then click Key.

5. Type WindowsServerBackup and then press ENTER.

6. Select the WindowsServerBackup key, and then on the Edit menu, click New, and then click Key.

7. Type Application Support, and then press ENTER.

8. Select the Application Support key, and then on the Edit menu, click New, and then click Key.

9. Type {c2f52614-5e53-4858-a589-38eeb25c6184} as the key name, and then press ENTER.

This is the GUID for the WSS Writer.

10. Select the new key, and then on the Edit menu, click New, and then click String Value.

11. Type Application Identifier as the new value name, and then press ENTER.

12. Right-click the Application Identifier value, and then click Modify.

13. In the Value Data box, type Windows SharePoint Services, and then click OK.

14. On the Edit menu, click New, and then click DWORD (32-bit) Value.

15. Type UseSameVssContext as the new value name, and then press ENTER.

16. Right-click the UseSameVssContext value, and then click Modify.

17. In the Value Data box, type 00000001, and then click OK.

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II. Deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment

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A. Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for a server farm environment

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Chapter overview: Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for a server farm environment

Important This article discusses how to do a clean installation of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment. It does not cover upgrading from previous releases of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or from previous releases of Windows SharePoint Services. For more information about upgrading from a previous release of Windows SharePoint Services, see Upgrading to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Note This article does not cover installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a single computer as a stand-alone installation. For more information, see Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a stand-alone computer.

You can deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment if you are hosting a large number of sites, if you want the best possible performance, or if you want the scalability of a multi-tier topology. A server farm consists of one or more servers dedicated to running the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 application.


Because a server farm deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is more complex than a stand-alone deployment, we recommend that you plan your deployment. Planning your deployment can help you to gather the information you need and to make important decisions before beginning to deploy. For information about planning, see Planning and architecture for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology.

Suggested topologiesServer farm environments can encompass a wide range of topologies, and can include many servers or as few as two servers.



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To deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm environment, you must provide credentials for several different accounts. For information about these accounts, see Plan for administrative and service accounts.



You must install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a clean installation of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system with the most recent service pack. If you uninstall a previous version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and then install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Setup might fail to create the configuration database and the installation will fail.

Note We recommend that you read the Known Issues/Readme documentation before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a domain controller. Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a domain controller requires additional configuration steps that are not discussed in this article.




Preinstalling the databases (optional).


Running Setup on all servers you want to be in the farm.

Installing available language template packs on front-end Web servers (optional). For more information about installing language template packs, see Deploy language packs (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0).

Running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.


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Creating the site collections.

Creating the sites.

For more information about creating site collections and sites, see Deploy and configure SharePoint sites (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Prepare the database servers (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

SQL Server and database collation

Required accounts

Preinstall databases (optional)

Before installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must prepare the database server.

The database server must be running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with the most recent service pack.









SQL Server and database collationThe SQL Server collation must be configured for case-insensitive. The SQL Server database collation must be configured for case-insensitive, accent-sensitive, Kana-sensitive, and width-sensitive. This is to ensure file name uniqueness consistent with the Windows operating system. For more information about collations, see "Selecting a SQL Collation" or "Collation Settings in Setup" in SQL Server Books Online.

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Required accountsThe following table describes the accounts that are used to configure Microsoft SQL Server and to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For more information about the required accounts, including specific privileges required for these accounts, see Plan for administrative and service accounts (Windows SharePoint Services).

Account Purpose

Setup user account The account that is used to run Setup on each server.

Farm search service account The service account for the Windows SharePoint Services Search service. There is only one instance of this service in the server farm.

Application pool process account Used to access content databases associated with the Web application.

Preinstall databases (optional)In many IT environments, database creation and management are handled by the database administrator (DBA). Security and other policies might require that the DBA create the databases required by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For more information about preinstalling databases, including detailed procedures that describe how the DBA can create these databases, see Deploy using DBA-created databases (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Prepare the front-end Web servers (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Install the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0

Enable ASP.NET 2.0

Before you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, be sure that your servers have the recommended hardware and software. To deploy a server farm, you need at least one server acting as a Web server and an application server, and one server acting as a database server.

For more information about these requirements, see Determine hardware and software requirements (Windows SharePoint Services).

Install the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0Go to the Microsoft Download Center Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=72322&clcid=0x409), and on the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package page, follow the instructions for downloading and installing the .NET Framework version 3.0. There are separate downloads for x86-based computers and x64-based computers; be sure to download and install the appropriate version for your computer. The .NET Framework version 3.0 download contains the Windows Workflow Foundation technology, which is required by workflow features.

Enable ASP.NET 2.0You must enable ASP.NET 2.0 on all servers.

Enable ASP.NET 2.0


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.

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Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and run the SharePoint Products and Technologies configuration wizardIn this article:




After preparing your database and the servers in your farm, run Setup and then run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on all your farm servers. Adding servers to the farm can be done at any time to add redundancy, such as additional load-balanced Web servers.



Setting up the first server involves two steps: installing the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 components on the server, and configuring the farm. After Setup finishes, you can use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard automates several configuration tasks, including installing and configuring the configuration database, installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services, and creating the Central Administration Web site.

Run Setup on the first serverWe recommend that you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on all of your farm servers before you configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services and create sites. You must have Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database software running on at least one back-end database server before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on your farm servers.

Note Setup installs the Central Administration Web site on the first server on which you run Setup. Therefore, we recommend that the first server on which you install Windows

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SharePoint Services 3.0 be a server from which you want to run the Central Administration Web site.










Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration WizardAfter Setup finishes, you can use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The configuration wizard automates several configuration tasks, including installing and configuring the configuration database, installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services, and creating the Central Administration Web site. Use the following instructions to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.


1. On the Welcome to SharePoint Products and Technologies page, click Next.2. In the dialog box that notifies you that some services might need to be restarted during

configuration, click Yes.

3. On the Connect to a server farm page, click No, I want to create a new server farm, and then click Next.


5. Type a name for your configuration database in the Database name box, or use the default

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database name. The default name is "SharePoint_Config".


ImportantThis account is the server farm account and it is used to access your 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.

The user account that you specify for this service account must be a domain user account. Because this account does not require a high level privilege, we recommend that you follow the principle of least privilege, and specify a user account that is not a member of the Administrators group on your Web servers or your back-end servers.


Specify port number check box; type a port number if you want the SharePoint Central Administration Web application to use a specific port, or leave the Specify port number check box cleared if you do not care which port number the SharePoint Central Administration Web application uses.

9. In the Configure SharePoint Central Administration Web Application dialog box, do one of the following:


Next.

Note In most cases, use the default setting (NTLM). Use Negotiate (Kerberos) only if Kerberos authentication is supported in your environment. Using the Negotiate (Kerberos) option requires you to configure a Service Principal Name (SPN) for the domain user account. To do this, you must be a member of the Domain Admins group. For more information, see How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=76570&clcid=0x409).




Note If you are prompted for your user name and password, you might need to add the

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SharePoint Central Administration Web site to the list of trusted sites, and then configure user authentication settings in Internet Explorer. Instructions for configuring these settings are provided in the next set of steps.



















Add servers to the farmWe recommend that you install and configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on all of your farm servers before you configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services and create sites. You must have SQL Server 2005 running on at least one back-end database server before you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on your farm servers.

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Important If you uninstall Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from the first server on which you installed it, your farm might experience problems.










Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on additional serversAfter Setup finishes, use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The configuration wizard automates several configuration tasks, including installing and configuring the configuration database, and installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services. Use the following instructions to run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.


1. On the Welcome to SharePoint Products and Technologies page, click Next.2. In the dialog box that notifies you that some services might need to be restarted during

configuration, click Yes.



5. Click Retrieve Database Names, and then from the Database name list, select the

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database name that you created when you configured the first server in your server farm.

6. In the User name box, type the user name of the account used to connect to the computer running SQL Server. (Be sure to type the user name in the format DOMAIN\username.) This must be the same user account you used when you configured the first server.








4. Next to Windows SharePoint Services Search, click Start.5. On the Configure Windows SharePoint Services Search Service Settings page, in the

Service Account section, specify the user name and password for the user account under which the Search service will run.

6. In the Content Access Account section, specify the user name and password for the user account that the Search service will use to search over content. This account must have read access to all the content you want it to search over. If you do not enter credentials, the same account used for the Search service will be used.

7. In the Indexing Schedule section, either accept the default settings, or specify the schedule that you want the Search service to use when searching over content.


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Deploy language packs (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)In this article:

About language IDs and language packs

Preparing your front-end Web servers for language packs

Installing language packs on your front-end Web servers

Language packs enable site owners and site collection administrators to create SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. You install language packs, which contain language-specific site templates, on your front-end Web servers. When an 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. Language packs are typically used in multinational deployments where a single server farm supports people in different locations or in situations where sites and Web pages must be duplicated in one or more languages.

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.

Word breakers and stemmers enable you to efficiently and effectively search across content on SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Word breakers and stemmers are automatically installed on your front-end Web servers by Setup.

You can install language lacks for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from the Microsoft Download site, at "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack" (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=36ee1bf0-652c-4e38-b247-f29b3eefa048&DisplayLang=en).

Important If you are uninstalling Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must uninstall all language packs before you uninstall Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

About language IDs and language packsWhen site owners or site collection administrators create sites or site collections, they can choose a language for the each site or site collection

The language they choose represents the language identifier (ID), and the language ID determines the language that is used to display text and interpret text that is put on the site or site

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collection. For example, when a site administrator chooses to create a site in French, the site's toolbars, navigation bars, lists, and column headings appear in French. Likewise, if a site administrator chooses to create a site in Arabic, the site's toolbars, navigation bars, lists, and column headings appear in Arabic, and the default left-to-right orientation of the site changes to a right-to-left orientation to properly display Arabic text.

The list of available languages that a site administrator can use to create a site or site collection is generated by the language packs that are installed on your front-end Web servers. By default, sites and site collections are created in the language in which Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 was installed. For example, if you install the Spanish version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, the default language for sites, site collections, and Web pages is Spanish. If a site administrator needs to create sites, site collections or Web pages in a language other than the default Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 language, you must install the language pack for that language on your front-end Web servers. For example, if you are running the French version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and a site administrator wants to create sites in French, English, and Spanish, you must install the English and Spanish language packs on your front-end Web servers.

Note By default, when a site administrator creates a new Web page within a site, the Web page uses the site's language ID to display text.

Language packs for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are not bundled into multilingual installation packages. You must install a specific language pack for each language that you want to support. Also, language packs must be installed on each of your front-end Web servers to ensure that each Web server can render content in the specified language.

The following table lists the language packs that are available for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Language Country/Region Language ID

German Germany 1031

English United States 1033

Japanese Japan 1041

Although a site administrator specifies a language ID for a site, some user interface elements such as error messages, notifications, and dialog boxes do not display in the language that was specified. This is because Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 relies on several supporting technologies — for example, the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft ASP.NET, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 — some of which are localized into only a limited number of languages. If a user interface element is generated by any of the supporting technologies that is not localized into the language that the site administrator specified for the site, the user interface element appears in English. For example, if a site administrator creates a site in Hebrew, and the.NET Framework component displays a notification message, the notification message will not display in Hebrew because the .NET Framework is not localized

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into Hebrew. This situation can occur when sites are created in any language except the following: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

In some cases, some text might originate from the original installation language, which can create a mixed-language experience. This type of mixed-language experience is typically seen only by content creators or site administrators and is not seen by site users.

Preparing your front-end Web servers for language packsBefore 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 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on each of your front-end Web servers.

Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard 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

Code page conversion tables

National Language Support (.nls) files

Script engines for rendering complex scripts

Most language files are installed by default on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. However, you must install supplemental language files for East Asian languages and languages that use complex script or require right-to-left orientations. The East Asian languages include Chinese, Japanese, and Korean; the complex script and right-to-left oriented languages include Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, the Indic languages, Thai, and Vietnamese. Instructions for installing these supplemental language files are provided in the following procedure.

We recommend that you install these language files only if you need them. The East Asian files require about 230 megabytes of hard disk space. The complex script and right-to-left languages do not use much disk space, but installing either set of files might reduce performance when entering text.

Note You must be a member of the Administrators group on the computer to install these language files. After the language files are installed, the languages are available to all users of the computer.

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Note 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.

Note You must restart your computer after you install supplemental language files.

Install additional language files

1. On your front-end Web server, click Start, point to Settings and then Control Panel, and then click Regional and Language Options.

2. In the Regional and Language Options dialog box, on the Languages tab, in the Supplemental Language Support section, select one or both of the following checkboxes:

Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages Install files for East Asian languages

3. Click OK in the dialog box that alerts you that additional disk space is required for the files.

4. Click OK to install the additional language files.

5. When prompted, insert your Windows Server 2003 product disc or provide the location of your Windows Server 2003 installation files.

6. When prompted to restart your computer, click Yes.

After you install the necessary language files on your front-end servers, you need to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard. The wizard creates and configures the configuration database and performs other configuration tasks that must be done before you install language packs. For more information about installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, see Deploy in a simple server farm (Windows SharePoint Services) and Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a stand-alone computer.

Installing language packs on your front-end Web serversAfter 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.

Important The language pack installs in its native language, for example the Russian language pack executable file is localized into Russian. The procedure provided below is for the English language pack.

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Install a language pack

1. Run setup.exe.


3. The setup wizard runs and installs the language pack.

4. Rerun the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, using the default settings. 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 dialog box that alerts you that some services might need to be restarted


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.



When you install language packs, the language-specific site templates are installed in the \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\template\number directory, where number is the Language ID for the language that you are installing. For example, the US English language pack installs to the \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\template\1033 directory. After you install a language pack, site owners and site collection 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.

Uninstalling language packsIf 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. Removing 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 (the URL will produce a HTTP 500 - Internal server error page). Reinstalling the language pack will make the site functional.

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Note You cannot remove the language pack for the version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that you have installed on your server. For example, if you are running the Japanese version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you cannot uninstall the Japanese language support for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

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B. Perform additional configuration tasks

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Chapter overview: Perform additional configuration tasks (Windows SharePoint Services)After the initial installation and configuration of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you can configure several additional settings. The configuration of additional settings is optional, but many key features are not available unless these settings are configured.

Configure additional administrative settingsTo take full advantage of the administrative features and capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, perform the following optional administrative tasks by using SharePoint Central Administration:


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 appear in outgoing alerts. You can also configure outgoing e-mail settings for all Web applications or for only one Web application. For more information, see Configure outgoing e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services) and Configure outgoing e-mail settings for a specific Web application (Windows SharePoint Services).

Create SharePoint sites When Setup finishes, you have a single Web application that hosts a single SharePoint site. If your site design requires multiple sites or multiple Web applications, you can create more SharePoint sites and Web applications. For more information, see Deploy and configure SharePoint sites.

Configure workflow settings You can configure workflow settings to enable end users to create their own workflows by using code pre-generated by administrators. You can also configure whether internal users without site access can receive workflow alerts, and whether external users can participate in workflows by receiving copies of documents by e-mail. For more information, see Configure workflow settings (Windows SharePoint Services).

Configure diagnostic logging settings You can configure several diagnostic logging settings to help with troubleshooting. These include enabling and configuring trace logs, event messages, user-mode error messages, and Customer Experience Improvement

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Program events. For more information, see Configure diagnostic logging settings (Windows SharePoint Services).

Configure antivirus settings You can configure several antivirus settings if you have an antivirus program that is designed for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Antivirus settings allow you to control whether documents are scanned on upload or on 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. For more information, see Configure anti-virus settings (Windows SharePoint Services).

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

Configure administrative settings using SharePoint Central Administration


2. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, under Administrative Tasks, click the administrative task that you want to perform.

3. On the Administrative Tasks page, next to Action, click the task.

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Configure incoming e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services) Install and configure the SMTP service

Configure Active Directory

Configure permissions to the e-mail drop folder

Configure DNS Manager

Configure attachments from Outlook 2003

Configure incoming e-mail settings

Configure incoming e-mail on SharePoint sites

Use this procedure to configure the incoming e-mail settings for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

The features of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that use incoming e-mail are not available until these settings are configured.

Before you configure incoming e-mail settings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, confirm that:

You have read the topic Plan incoming e-mail (Windows SharePoint Services).

One or more servers in your server farm are running the Internet Information Services (IIS) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service, or you know the name of another server that is running the SMTP service. This server must be configured to accept relayed e-mail from the mail server for the domain.

One or more servers in your server farm are running the Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service, or you know the name of another server that is running the SharePoint Directory Management Web Service.

The application pool account for the SharePoint Central Administration Web site has the Create, delete, and manage user accounts right to the container in the Active Directory directory service.

The application pool account for Central Administration, the logon account for the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service, and the application pool accounts for your Web applications have the correct permissions to the e-mail drop folder.

The domain controller running Active Directory has a Mail Exchanger (MX) entry in DNS Manager for the mail server that you plan to use for incoming e-mail.

Note All of these configuration steps are described in detail in the following sections.

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Install and configure the SMTP serviceIncoming e-mail for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 uses the SMTP service. The SMTP service can be either installed on one or more servers in the farm, or administrators can provide an e-mail drop folder for e-mail forwarded from the service on another server. The drop folder option is not recommended because administrators of the other server can affect the availability of incoming e-mail by changing the configuration of SMTP, and because this requires the additional step of configuring permissions to the e-mail drop folder.

If a drop folder is not used, the SMTP service must be installed on each server that is used to receive and process incoming e-mail. Typically, this includes every front-end Web server in the farm.

Start the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application serviceEach server that is running the SMTP service must also be running the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application service. These servers are called front-end Web servers. In many cases, this service will have already been configured.

Important Membership in the Administrators group of the Central Administration site is required to complete this procedure.

Start the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application service

1. On the top navigation bar, click Operations.

2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Services on server. 3. On the Services on Server page, find Windows SharePoint Services Web Application in

the list of services, and click Start.

Install the SMTP serviceThe SMTP service is a component of IIS. It must be installed on every front-end Web server in the farm that you want to configure for incoming e-mail.

Important Membership in the Administrators group on the local computer is required to complete this procedure.

Install the SMTP service

1. In Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs.

2. In Add or Remove Programs, click Add/Remove Windows Components.

3. In the Windows Components Wizard, in the Components box, click Application Server, and then click the Details button.

4. In the Application Server dialog box, in the Subcomponents of Application Server box,

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click Internet Information Services (IIS), and then click the Details button.

5. In the Internet Information Services (IIS) dialog box, select the SMTP Service check box.

6. Click OK to return to the Application Server dialog box.

7. Click OK to return to the main page of the Windows Components Wizard.

8. Click Next.9. When Windows has finished installing the SMTP service, on the Completing the Windows

Components Wizard page, click Finish.

Configure the SMTP serviceAfter installing the SMTP service, you must configure the service to accept relayed e-mail from the mail server for the domain.

You can decide to accept relayed e-mail from all servers except those you specifically exclude. Alternatively, you can block e-mail from all servers except those you specifically include. You can include servers individually, or in groups by subnet or domain.


Configure the SMTP service


2. In IIS Manager, expand the server name that contains the SMTP server that you want to configure.

3. Right-click the SMTP virtual server that you want to configure, and then click Properties.

4. On the Access tab, under Access control, click Authentication.

5. In the Authentication dialog box, under Select acceptable authentication methods for this resource, verify that Anonymous access is selected.

6. Click OK.

7. On the Access tab, under Relay restrictions, click Relay.

8. To enable relaying from any server, under Select which computer may relay through this virtual server, select All except the list below.

9. To accept relaying from one or more specific servers, follow these steps:

a. Under Select which computer may relay through this virtual server, select Only the list below.

b. Click Add, and then add servers one at a time by IP address, or in groups by using a subnet or domain.

c. Click OK to close the Computer dialog box.

10. Click OK to close the Relay Restrictions dialog box.

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11. Click OK to close the Properties dialog box.

Add an SMTP connector in Exchange ServerIn some scenarios, mail from Microsoft Exchange Server computers might not be automatically relayed to the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 servers that are running the SMTP service. In these scenarios, administrators of Exchange mail servers can add an SMTP connector so that all mail sent to the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 domain uses the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 servers that are running the SMTP service.

For more information about SMTP connectors, see the Help documentation for Exchange Server.

Configure Active DirectoryIncoming e-mail uses the Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service to connect SharePoint sites to the directory services used by your organization. If you enable the Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service, users can create and manage distribution groups from SharePoint sites. SharePoint lists that use e-mail can then be found in directory services, such as the Address Book. You must also select which distribution group requests from SharePoint lists require approval. The Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service can be installed on a server in the farm, or you can use a remote Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service.

To use the Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service on a farm or server, you must configure the Central Administration application pool identity account to have the Create, delete, and manage user accounts right to the container that you specify in Active Directory. The preferred way to do this is by delegating the right to the Central Administration application pool identity account. An Active Directory administrator must set up the organizational unit (OU) and delegate the Create, delete, and manage user accounts right to the container. The advantage of using the Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service on a remote farm is that you do not have to delegate rights to the organizational unit for multiple farm service accounts.

If the application pool account for Central Administration is different from the application pool account for the Web application of the list or site that is enabled for e-mail, you must use the application pool account for the Web application when completing the following procedures. You must then delegate additional rights to the Central Administration application pool account.

The following procedures are performed on a domain controller that runs Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 (with DNS Manager) and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP1. In some deployments, these applications might run on multiple servers in the same domain.

Important Membership in the Domain Administrators group or delegated authority for domain administration is required to complete this procedure.

Create an organizational unit in Active Directory

1. Click Start, point to Control Panel, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active

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Directory Users and Computers.

2. In Active Directory Users and Computers, right-click the folder for the second-level domain that contains your server farm, point to New, and then click Organizational Unit.

3. Type the name of the organizational unit, and then click OK.

After creating the organization unit, we recommend that you delegate the Create, delete, and manage user accounts right to the container.

Important Membership in the Domain Administrators group or the Enterprise Administrators group in Active Directory, or delegated authority for administration, is required to complete this procedure.

Delegate right to the application pool account

1. In Active Directory Users and Computers, find the organizational unit that you just created.

2. Right-click the organizational unit, and then click Delegate control.3. On the Welcome page of the Delegation of Control Wizard, click Next.4. On the Users and Groups page, click Add, and then type the name of the application pool

identity account that the Web application uses.

5. In the Select Users, Computers, and Groups dialog box, click OK.

6. On the Users or Groups page of the Delegation of Control Wizard, click Next.7. On the Tasks to Delegate page of the Delegation of Control Wizard, select the Create,

delete, and manage user accounts check box, and then click Next. 8. On the last page of the Delegation of Control Wizard, click Finish to exit the wizard.

If you must add permissions for the application pool identity account directly, complete the following procedure.

Important Membership in the Account Operators group, Domain Administrators group, or the Enterprise Administrators group in Active Directory, or delegated authority for administration, is required to complete this procedure.

Add permissions for the application pool account

1. In Active Directory Users and Computers, click the View menu, and then click Advanced Features.

2. Right-click the organizational unit that you just created, and then click Properties.

3. In the Properties dialog box, click the Security tab, and then click Advanced.

4. Click Add, and then type the name of the application pool identity account for the Web application.

5. Click OK.

6. In the Permission Entries section, double-click the application pool identity account.

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7. In the Permissions section, under Allow, select the Modify permissions check box.

8. Click OK to close the Permissions dialog box.


10. Click OK to close the Active Directory Users and Computers plug-in.

If you decide instead to use the remote Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service, you must know the URL for the Web service. This URL is typically in the following format: http://server:adminport/_vti_bin/SharePointEmailWS.asmx.

Configure Active Directory under atypical circumstancesIf you are using the Directory Management Service and the Central Administration application pool uses a different account from the Web application for the list or site on which you want to enable incoming e-mail, you must delegate additional rights to the Central Administration application pool account. If you do not delegate these rights, then you cannot enable incoming e-mail for the list or site.

Note Before you delegate the following rights to the Central Administration application pool account for the organizational unit, you must delegate rights to the application pool account for the Web application. The procedures for delegating those rights are explained in the previous section.

Administrators must delegate full control of the organizational unit to the Central Administration application pool account. After this delegation is complete, administrators can enable incoming e-mail.

To delegate full control of the organizational unit to the Central Administration application pool account

Important Membership in the Domain Administrators group or the Enterprise Administrators group in Active Directory, or delegated authority for administration, is required to complete this procedure.

Delegate full control of the organizational unit to the Central Administration application pool account

1. Right-click the organizational unit, and then click Delegate control.2. In the Delegation of Control wizard, click Next.3. Click Add, and then type the name of the application pool account for Central

Administration.

4. Click OK.

5. Click Next.6. On the Tasks to Delegate page of the Delegation of Control wizard, select Create a

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custom task to delegate, and then click Next.7. Select This folder, existing objects in this folder, and creation of new objects in this

folder, and then click Next.8. In the Permissions section, select Create all Child Objects and Delete all Child

Objects.

9. Click Next.10. On the last page of the Delegation of Control wizard, click Finish to exit the wizard.

Delegating full control of the organizational unit to the Central Administration application pool account enables administrators to enable e-mail for a list. Administrators cannot disable e-mail for the list or document library after delegating full control because the Central Administration account tries to delete the contact from the entire organizational unit rather than deleting the contact from the list.

To add the Delete Subtree permission for the Central Administration application pool accountTo enable administrators to disable incoming e-mail on a list, you must add the Delete Subtree permission for the Central Administration application pool account.

Important Membership in the Account Operators group, Domain Administrators group, or the Enterprise Administrators group in Active Directory, or delegated authority for administration, is required to complete this procedure.

Add the Delete Subtree permission for the Central Administration application pool account

1. In Active Directory Users and Computers, click the View menu, and then click Advanced Features.

2. Right-click the organizational unit and then click Properties.

3. In the Properties dialog box, click the Security tab, and then click Advanced.

4. In the Permission Entries section, double-click the Central Administration application pool account.

5. In the Permissions section, under Allow, select Delete Subtree.

6. Click OK to close the Permissions dialog box.


8. Click OK to close the Active Directory Users and Computers plug-in.

After adding the permission, you must restart Internet Information Services (IIS) for the farm.

For more information about Active Directory, see the Help documentation for Active Directory.

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Configure permissions to the e-mail drop folderWhen incoming e-mail settings are set to advanced mode, you must ensure that certain accounts have the correct permissions to the e-mail drop folder.

Configure e-mail drop folder permissions for the logon account for the Windows SharePoint Services Timer serviceEnsure that the logon account for the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service has the Modify permission on the e-mail drop folder. If the logon account for the service does not have the Modify permission, e-mail enabled document libraries will receive duplicate e-mail messages.

Important Membership in the Administrators group on the local computer that contains the e-mail drop folder is required to complete this procedure.

Configure e-mail drop folder permissions

1. In Windows Explorer, right-click the drop folder, click Properties, and then click the Security tab.

2. On the Security tab, under the Group or user names box, click the Add button.

3. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, in the Enter objects to select box, type the name of the logon account for the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service, and then click OK.

Note This account is listed on the Log On tab of the Properties dialog box for the service in the Services console.

4. In the Permissions for User or Group box, next to Modify, select the Allow check box.

5. Click OK.

Configure e-mail drop folder permissions for the application pool account for a Web applicationIf your deployment uses different application pool accounts for Central Administration and one or more Web applications for front-end Web servers, each application account must have permissions to the e-mail drop folder. If the application pool account for the Web application does not have the required permissions, e-mail will not be delivered to document libraries on that Web application.

In most cases, when you configure incoming e-mail settings and select an e-mail drop folder, permissions are added for two worker process groups:

WSS_Admin_WPG, which includes the application pool account for Central Administration and the logon account for the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service, has Full Control permission.

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WSS_WPG, which includes the application pool accounts for Web applications, has Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, and Read permissions.

In some cases, these groups might not be configured automatically for the e-mail drop folder. For example, if Central Administration is running as the Network Service account, the groups or accounts needed for incoming e-mail will not be added when the e-mail drop folder is created. It is a good idea to check whether these groups have been added automatically to the e-mail drop folder. If the groups have not been added automatically, you can add them or add the specific accounts that are required.

Important Membership in the Administrators group on the local computer that contains the e-mail drop folder is required to complete this procedure.

Configure e-mail drop folder permissions

1. In Windows Explorer, right-click the drop folder, click Properties, and then click the Security tab.

2. On the Security tab, under the Group or user names box, click the Add button.

3. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, in the Enter objects to select box, type the name of the worker process group or application pool account for the Web application, and then click OK.

Note This account is listed on the Identity tab of the Properties dialog box for the application pool in IIS.

4. In the Permissions for User or Group box, next to Modify, select the Allow check box.

5. Click OK.

Configure DNS ManagerIncoming mail requires a Mail Exchanger (MX) resource record to be added in DNS Manager for the host or subdomain running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. This is distinct from any existing MX records in the domain.


Add a Mail Exchanger (MX) resource record for the subdomain

1. In DNS Manager, select the forward lookup zone for the domain that contains the subdomain for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

2. Right-click the zone and then click New Mail Exchanger.3. In the Host or domain text box, type the host or subdomain name for Windows SharePoint

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Services 3.0.

4. In the Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of mail server text box, type the fully qualified domain name for the server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. This is typically in the format subdomain.domain.com.

5. Click OK.

Configure attachments from Outlook 2003Attachments to messages sent from Microsoft Outlook 2003 must be encoded in UUEncode or Binhex format to appear separately in e-mail enabled document libraries. Attachments from Outlook 2003 that use different encoding will not be listed, but e-mail messages that contain attachments will be listed.

Configure incoming e-mail settingsBefore you can enable incoming e-mail on the server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must have configured the SMTP service on front-end Web servers in the farm and the Active Directory and DNS Manager on the domain controller, or you must know the name of other servers that are running these services.

This procedure configures the settings that are used for incoming e-mail. You can also configure options for safe e-mail servers and the incoming e-mail display address.

Important Membership in the Administrators group of the Central Administration site is required to complete this procedure.

Configure incoming e-mail settings


2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Incoming e-mail settings.

3. If you want to enable sites on this server to receive e-mail, on the Incoming E-mail Settings page, in the Enable Incoming E-Mail section, click Yes.

4. Select either the Automatic or the Advanced settings mode.

If you select Advanced, you can specify a drop folder instead of using an SMTP server.

5. If you want to connect to the SharePoint Directory Management Service, in the Directory Management Service section, click Yes.

a. In the Active Directory container where new distribution groups and contacts will be created box, type the name of the container in the format OU=ContainerName, DC=domain, DC=com, where ContainerName is the name of the organizational unit in Active Directory, domain is the second-level domain, and com is the top-level domain.

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The Central Administration application pool account must be delegated the Create, delete, and manage user accounts task for the container. Access is configured in the properties for the organizational unit in Active Directory.

b. In the SMTP mail server for incoming mail box, type the name of the SMTP mail server. The server name must match the fully qualified domain name in the MX entry for the mail server in DNS Manager.

c. To accept only messages from authenticated users, click Yes for Accept messages from authenticated users only. Otherwise, click No.

d. To allow creation of distribution groups from SharePoint sites, click Yes for Allow creation of distribution groups from SharePoint sites. Otherwise, click No.

e. Under Distribution group request approval settings, select the actions that will require approval. Actions include the following:

Create new distribution group Change distribution group e-mail address Change distribution group title and description Delete distribution group

6. If you want to use a remote SharePoint Directory Management Web Service, select Use remote.

a. In the Directory Management Service URL box, type the URL of the Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service that you want to use.

b. In the SMTP mail server for incoming mail box, type the name of the SMTP mail server. The server name must match the fully qualified domain name in the MX entry for the mail server in DNS Manager on the domain server.

c. To accept messages from authenticated users only, click Yes for Accept messages from authenticated users only. Otherwise, click No.

d. To allow creation of distribution groups from SharePoint sites, click Yes for Allow creation of distribution groups from SharePoint sites. Otherwise, click No.

7. If you do not want to use the Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service, click No.

8. In the Incoming E-Mail Server Display Address section, type a display name for the e-mail server (for example, mail.fabrikam.com) in the E-mail server display address box.

Tip You can specify the e-mail server address that is displayed when users create an incoming e-mail address for a list or group. Use this setting together with the Microsoft SharePoint Directory Management Service to provide an e-mail server address that is more user-friendly.

9. In the Safe E-Mail Servers section, select one of the following options:

Accept mail from all e-mail servers Accept mail from these safe e-mail servers. If you select this option, type the IP

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addresses (one per line) of the e-mail servers that you want to specify as safe in the corresponding box.

10. In the E-mail Drop Folder section, in the E-mail drop folder box, type the name of the folder in which Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services polls for incoming e-mail from the SMTP service.

This option is available only if you selected advanced mode.

11. Click OK.

Configuring incoming e-mail on SharePoint sitesAfter configuring incoming e-mail settings, site administrators can configure e-mail enabled lists and document libraries. For more information about e-mail enabled document libraries, see the Help documentation for site administrators.

Contact addresses created for these document libraries appear automatically in Active Directory Users and Computers under the organizational unit for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and must be managed by the administrator of Active Directory. The Active Directory administrator can add more e-mail addresses for each contact. For more information about how to manage contacts in Active Directory, see the Help documentation for Active Directory.

Alternatively, the Exchange Server can be configured by adding a new Exchange Server Global recipient policy to automatically add external addresses that use the second-level domain name and not the subdomain or host for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For more information about how to manage Exchange Server, see the Help documentation for Exchange Server.

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Configure outgoing e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Install and configure the SMTP service

Configure outgoing e-mail settings

Use this procedure to configure the default outgoing e-mail settings for all Web applications. You can override the default outgoing e-mail settings for specific Web applications by using the procedure that is described in Configure outgoing e-mail settings for a specific Web application (Windows SharePoint Services).

Install and configure the SMTP serviceBefore you can enable outgoing e-mail, you must install the Internet Information Services (IIS) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service. After determining which SMTP server to use, the SMTP server must be configured to allow anonymous access and to allow e-mail messages to be relayed. Additionally, the SMTP server must have Internet access if you want the ability to send messages to external e-mail addresses, or it must be able to relay authenticated e-mail to a server that has Internet access. The SMTP server that you use can be a server in the farm, or another server.

Install the SMTP serviceThe SMTP service is a component of IIS.






4. In the Application Server dialog box, in the Subcomponents of Application Server box, click Internet Information Services (IIS), and then click the Details button.




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Configure the SMTP serviceAfter installing the SMTP service, configure the service to accept relayed e-mail from servers in your farm.


By enabling both anonymous access and e-mail relaying, you increase the possibility that the SMTP server will be used to relay unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam). It is important to limit this possibility by carefully configuring your mail servers to help protect against spam. One way that you can do this is by limiting relaying to a specific list of servers or domain, and preventing relaying from all other servers.








6. Click OK.







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Configure outgoing e-mail settingsImportant Membership in the Farm Administrators group of the Central Administration site is required to complete this procedure.


1. On the top navigation bar of the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, click Operations.

2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Outgoing e-mail settings.

3. On the Outgoing E-Mail Settings page, in the Mail Settings section, type the SMTP server name for outgoing e-mail (for example, mail.example.com) in the Outbound SMTP server box.

4. In the From address box, type the e-mail friendly address as you want it to appear to e-mail recipients.

5. In the Reply-to address box, type the e-mail address to which you want e-mail recipients to reply.

6. In the Character set menu, select the character set that is appropriate for your language.

7. Click OK.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Email: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Configure outgoing e-mail settings for a specific Web application (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Install and configure the SMTP service


Use this procedure to configure the outgoing e-mail settings for a specific Web application. Before using this procedure, you must first configure the default outgoing e-mail settings for all Web applications by using the procedure described in Configure outgoing e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services).

Install and configure the SMTP serviceBefore you can enable outgoing e-mail, you must install the Internet Information Services (IIS) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service. After determining which SMTP server to use, the SMTP server must be configured to allow anonymous access and to allow e-mail messages to be relayed. Additionally, the SMTP server must have Internet access if you want the ability to send messages to external e-mail addresses, or it must be able to relay authenticated e-mail to a server that has Internet access. The SMTP server that you use can be a server in the farm, or another server.

Install the SMTP serviceThe SMTP service is a component of IIS.






4. In the Application Server dialog box, in the Subcomponents of Application Server box, click Internet Information Services (IIS), and then click the Details button.



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Configure the SMTP serviceAfter installing the SMTP service, configure the service to accept relayed e-mail from servers in your farm.


By enabling both anonymous access and e-mail relaying, you increase the possibility that the SMTP server will be used to relay unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam). It is important to limit this possibility by carefully configuring your mail servers to help protect against spam. One way that you can do this is by limiting relaying to a specific list of servers or domain, and preventing relaying from all other servers.








6. Click OK.






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Configure outgoing e-mail settingsImportant Membership in the Farm Administrators group of the Central Administration site is required to complete this procedure.


1. On the top navigation bar of the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, click Application Management.

2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Web Application Management section, click Web application outgoing e-mail settings.

3. On the Web Application E-Mail Settings page, select a Web application by using the Web Application menu in the Web Application section.

4. In the Mail Settings section, type the SMTP server name for outgoing e-mail (for example, type mail.fabrikam.com) in the Outbound SMTP server box.

5. In the From address box, type the e-mail friendly address as you want it to appear to e-mail recipients.

6. In the Reply-to address box, type the e-mail address to which you want e-mail recipients to reply.

7. On the Character set menu, click the character set that is appropriate for your language.

8. Click OK.

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Configure workflow settings (Windows SharePoint Services)Use this procedure to configure the workflow settings for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Workflow settings are configured at the Web application level, enabling you to configure different settings for different Web applications. When you configure workflow settings, you must first select the Web application to configure.

Site administrators can create workflows from the Site Settings page for the site or site collection. By default, end users can create their own workflows by using code already deployed by an administrator. You can also choose to limit workflow creation to site administrators.

By default, workflows can include users who do not have site access. Users without site access who attempt to complete the task assigned to them will be directed to the Error: Access Denied page, where they can request access to the site. If you do not enable alerts for internal users without site access, workflows that include those users will not generate alerts for those users.

By default, external users cannot participate in workflows, and external users included in workflows will not be alerted. You can choose to allow external users to participate in workflows by sending copies of documents to those users by e-mail.

Configuring workflow settingsNote Membership in the Administrators group of the Central Administration site is required to complete this procedure.

Configure workflow settings

1. On the top navigation bar, click Application Management.2. On the Application Management page, in the Workflow Management section, click

Workflow settings.

3. On the Workflow Settings page, in the Web Application section, the current Web application is displayed in the Web Application menu. To configure the settings for a different Web application, click Change Web Application, and then select a new Web application on the Select Web Application page.

4. In the User-Defined Workflows section, select Yes if you want to enable user-defined workflows, or select No if you do not want to enable user-defined workflows.

5. In the Workflow Task Notifications section, under Alert internal users who do not have site access when they are assigned a workflow task, select Yes if you want internal users without site access to be sent an e-mail alert when a task is assigned to them. Users attempting to complete the task by using the link in the alert will be directed to the Request Permissions page. If you do not want internal users without site access to be sent an e-mail

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alert when a task is assigned to them, select No.

6. Under Allow external users to participate in workflow by sending them a copy of the document, select Yes if you want documents to be sent to external users by e-mail when those users are part of the workflow but they do not have access permissions to the documents. If you do not want documents to be sent to external users who do not have access permissions, select No.

Note If the object in the workflow is not a document but a list item, the list item properties are displayed in a table as part of the e-mail message.

7. Click OK.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Workflow management: Stsadm properties (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Configure diagnostic logging settings (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Customer Experience Improvement Program

Error reports

Event throttling

Configuring diagnostic logging settings

Use this procedure to configure the diagnostic logging settings for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

You can configure how diagnostic events are logged according to their criticality. Additionally, you can set the maximum number of log files that can be maintained, and you can set how long to capture events to a single log file.

You can also indicate whether or not to provide Microsoft with continuous improvement and Dr. Watson event data.

Customer Experience Improvement ProgramThe Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) is designed to improve the quality, reliability, and performance of Microsoft® products and technologies. With your permission, anonymous information about your server will be sent to Microsoft to help us improve SharePoint® Products and Technologies.

For more information, see the Customer Experience Improvement Program privacy statement (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=84784&clcid=0x409).

Error reportsError reports are created when your system encounters hardware or software problems. Microsoft and its partners actively use these reports to improve the reliability of your software. Error reports include the following: information regarding the condition of the server when the problem occurs; the operating system version and computer hardware in use; and the Digital Product ID, which can be used to identify your license. The IP address of your computer is also sent because you are connecting to an online service to send error reports; however, the IP address is used only to generate aggregate statistics.

Microsoft does not intentionally collect any personal information. However, error reports could contain data from log files, such as user names, IP addresses, URLs, file or path names, and e-mail addresses. Although this information, if present, could potentially be used to determine your identity, the information will not be used in this way. The data that Microsoft collects will be used only to fix problems and to improve software and services. Error reports will be sent by using

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encryption technology to a database with limited access, and will not be used for marketing purposes.

For more information, see the Microsoft Error Reporting Service privacy statement (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=85028&clcid=0x409).

If you want to provide error reports to Microsoft and its partners, select the option to collect error reports. Base your decision on your organization's policies about sharing the information collected by error reports, and the potential impact of error collection on users and administrators. Two options are available for error reports:

You can choose to periodically download a file from Microsoft that can help identify system problems based on the error reports that you provide to Microsoft.

You can change the error collection policy to silently send all reports. This changes the computer's error reporting behavior to automatically send reports to Microsoft without prompting users when they log on.

Event throttlingYou can configure the diagnostic options for event logging. Events can be logged in either the Windows® event log or the trace log. You can configure event throttling settings to control how many events are recorded in each log, according to the criticality of the events. To provide more control in event throttling, you can decide to throttle events for all events, or for any single category of events. Several categories of events are available, based on different services and features of SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Categories of events can be defined by individual services or by groupings of related events. Selected event categories include:

All

Categories defined by product, such as Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

Administrative functions such as Administration, Backup and Recovery, Content Deployment, and Setup and Upgrade

Feature areas such as Document Management, E-Mail, Forms Services, Information Policy Management, Information Rights Management, Publishing, Records Center, Site Directory, Site Management, User Profiles, and Workflow

SharePoint Services and other services such as the Load Balancer Service

Shared services such as all Office Server Shared Services, Business Data, and Excel Calculation Services

For the selected category, select the least-critical event to record, for both the Windows event log and the trace log. Events that are equally critical to or more critical than the selected event will be recorded in each log. The list entries are sorted in order from most-critical to least-critical.

The levels of events for the Windows event log include:

None

Error

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Warning

Audit Failure

Audit Success

Information

The levels of events for the trace log include:

None

Unexpected

Monitorable

High

Medium

Verbose

For more information about the Windows event log or the trace log, see the Windows documentation.

Configuring diagnostic logging settingsNote Membership in the Administrators group of the Central Administration site is required to complete this procedure.

Configure diagnostic logging settings


2. On the Operations page, in the Logging and Reporting section, click Diagnostic logging.

3. On the Diagnostic Logging page, in the Customer Experience Improvement Program section, under Sign Up for the Customer Experience Improvement Program, select one of the following options:

Yes, I am willing to participate anonymously in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (Recommended).

No, I don't wish to participate.If you select Yes, users can decide whether they want to report Customer Experience Improvement Program events to Microsoft.

4. In the Error Reports section, under Error reporting, select one of the following:

Collect error reports.

If you select this option, you can also select or clear two options to control how error reports are collected:

Periodically download a file that can help identify system problems.

Change this computer's error collection policy to silently send all reports. This changes the computer's error reporting behavior to automatically send reports to

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Microsoft without prompting users when they log on.

Ignore errors and don't collect information.

5. In the Event Throttling section, in the Select a category menu, select a category of events:

a. In the Least critical event to report to the event log menu, select the least-critical event to report to the event log for the selected category.

b. In the Least critical event to report to the trace log menu, select the least-critical event to report to the trace log for the selected category.

6. In the Trace Log section, in the Path text box, type the local path to use for the trace log on all servers in the farm. The location must exist on all servers in the farm.

a. In the Number of log files text box, type the maximum number of files that you want to maintain.

b. In the Number of minutes to use a log file text box, type the number of minutes to use each log file.

7. Click OK.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Listlogginglevels: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services) and Setlogginglevel: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Configure anti-virus settings (Windows SharePoint Services)Use this procedure to configure the antivirus settings for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

You can activate antivirus measures only after installing a compatible antivirus scanner. In a server farm, you must install antivirus software on every front-end Web server in the server farm.

You can configure four antivirus settings:

Scan documents on upload: Select this setting to scan uploaded documents. This helps prevent users with infected documents from distributing them to other users.

Scan documents on download: Select this setting to scan downloaded documents. This helps prevent users from downloading infected documents by warning them about infected files. Users can still choose to download infected files, unless the option to allow users to download infected documents is not selected.

Allow users to download infected documents: If this option is selected, users can download infected documents. In most cases, do not select this option. Unless you have a specific reason to download infected documents, such as troubleshooting a virus infection on your system, do not select this option.

Attempt to clean infected documents: Select this setting to automatically clean infected documents that were discovered during scanning.

Administrative credentialsMembership in the Administrators group of the Central Administration site is required to complete this procedure.

Configure antivirus settings


2. On the Operations page, in the Security Configuration section, click Antivirus.

3. On the Antivirus page, in the Antivirus Settings section, select one or all of the following:

Scan documents on upload Scan documents on download Allow users to download infected documents Attempt to clean infected documents

4. Click OK.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Antivirus: Stsadm properties (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Configure Web SSO authentication by using ADFS (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

About federated authentication systems

Before you begin

Configuring your extranet Web application to use Web SSO authentication

Allowing users access to your extranet Web site

Working with the People Picker

Working with E-mail and UPN claims

Working with groups and organizational claims

About federated authentication systemsWindows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides support for federated authentication scenarios where the authentication system is not local to the computer that hosts Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Federated authentication systems are also known as Web single sign-on (SSO) systems. With Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), people in one company can access servers hosted by a different company by using their existing Active Directory accounts. ADFS also establishes a trust relationship between the two companies and a seamless one-time logon experience for end users. ADFS relies on 302 redirects to authenticate end users. Users are issued an authentication token (cookie) after they are authenticated.

Before you beginBefore you use ADFS to configure Web SSO authentication for your extranet Web application, you should become familiar with the following resources:

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog entry about configuring multiple authentication providers (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/08/16/configuring-multiple-authentication-providers-for-sharepoint-2007.aspx).

Step-by-Step Guide for Active Directory Federation Services (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=062F7382-A82F-4428-9BBD-A103B9F27654&displayLang=en). The server names and examples used in this article are based on this step-by-step guide, which describes setting up ADFS in a small lab environment. In this environment, a new server named Trey-SharePoint is joined to the Trey Research forest. Follow the steps in the step-by-step guide to configure your ADFS infrastructure. However, because this article describes how to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a claims-aware application mode, you do not have to implement all the steps

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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=062F7382-A82F-4428-9BBD-A103B9F27654&displayLang=en

for building Windows NT token agent applications that are described in the step-by-step guide.

Note When you use the People Picker to add users to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 validates the users against the provider, which in this example is ADFS. Therefore, you should configure the Federation Server before you configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Important The setup process has been captured in a VBScript file that you can use to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to use ADFS for authentication. This script file is contained in the file (SetupSharePointADFS.zip) and is available on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies blog, listed in the Attachments section. For more information, see the blog page A script to configure SharePoint to use ADFS for authentication.

Configuring your extranet Web application to use Web SSO authentication1. Install the Web Agent for Claims Aware Applications.

2. Download and install the hot fix for ADFS described in The role provider and the membership provider cannot be called from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a Windows Server 2003 R2-based computer that is running ADFS and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920764/en-us). This hot fix will be included in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2).

3. Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, configure all the services and servers in the farm, and then create a new Web application. By default, this Web application will be configured to use Windows authentication, and it will be the entry point through which your intranet users will access the site. In the example used in this article, the site is named http://trey-moss.

4. Extend the Web application that you created in step 2 in another zone. On the Application Management page in the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, click Create or Extend Web Application, click Extend an existing Web Application, and then do the following:

a. Add a host header. This is the DNS name by which the site will be known to users in the extranet. In this example, the name is extranet.treyresearch.net.

b. Change the zone to Extranet.

c. Give the site a host header name that you will configure in DNS for your extranet users to resolve against.

d. Click Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and change the port number to 443. ADFS requires that sites be configured to use SSL.

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e. In the Load Balanced URL box, delete the text string :443. Internet Information Services (IIS) will automatically use port 443 because you specified the port number in the previous step.

f. Complete the rest of the steps on the page to finish extending the Web application.

5. On the Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) page, verify that the URLs resemble the following table.

Internal URL Zone Public URL for Zone

http://trey-moss Default http://trey-moss

https://extranet.treyresearch.net Extranet https://extranet.treyresearch.net

6. Add an SSL certificate to the Extranet Web Site in IIS. Make sure that this SSL certificate is issued to extranet.treyresearch.net, because this is the name that clients will use when they access the sites.

7. Configure the Authentication provider for the extranet zone on your Web application to use Web SSO by doing the following:

a. On the Application Management page of your farm’s Central Administration site, click Authentication Providers.

b. Click Change in the upper-right corner of the page, and then select the Web application on which you want to enable Web SSO.

c. In the list of two zones that are mapped for this Web application (both of which should say Windows), click the Windows link for the Extranet zone.

d. In the Authentication Type section, click Web Single Sign On.

e. In the Membership provider name box, type

SingleSignOnMembershipProvider2Make a note of this value; you will be adding it to the name element of the <membership> section in the web.config files that you will edit later in this procedure.

f. In the Role manager name box, type

SingleSignOnRoleProvider2Make a note of this value; you will be adding it to the name element of the <roleManager> section in the web.config files you will edit later in this procedure.

g. Make sure the Enable Client Integration setting is set to No.

h. Click Save.

Your extranet Web application is now configured to use Web SSO. However, at this point, the site will be inaccessible because no one has permissions to it. The next step is to assign permissions to users so that they can access this site.

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Note After selecting WebSSO as the Authentication Provider, Anonymous Authentication will be automatically enabled for the SharePoint site in IIS (no user action is required). This setting is required for the site to allow access using only claims.

Allowing users access to your extranet Web site1. Use a text editor to open the web.config file for the Web site on the default zone that is using

Windows authentication.

2. Add the following entry anywhere in the <system.web> node.

<membership>

<providers>

<add name="SingleSignOnMembershipProvider2" type="System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.SingleSignOnMembershipProvider2, System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.PartialTrust, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" fs="https://fs-server/adfs/fs/federationserverservice.asmx" />

</providers>

</membership>

<roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider">

<providers>

<remove name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" />

<add name="SingleSignOnRoleProvider2" type="System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.SingleSignOnRoleProvider2, System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.PartialTrust, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" fs="https://fs-server/adfs/fs/federationserverservice.asmx" />

</providers>

</roleManager>

3. Change the value for fs-server to reflect your resource Federation Server (adfsresource.treyresearch.net). Ensure that you entered the correct membership provider and the role manager names on the Central Administration Authentication Providers page. When this entry is added to web.config, the People Picker on the default zone site that is using Windows authentication is able to know about the ADFS providers and, therefore, can resolve the ADFS claims. This enables you to grant permissions to the ADFS claims on your Web site.

4. Grant ADFS claims access to the site by doing the following:

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a. Navigate to the Web site on the default zone that uses Windows authentication as an administrator of the site.

b. Click the Site Actions menu, point to Site Settings, and then click Advanced Permissions.

c. Click New, and then click Add Users.

d. To add a user claim, specify their e-mail address or User Principal Name in the Users/Groups section. If both UPN and e-mail claims are sent from the federation server, then SharePoint will use UPN to verify against the MembershipProvider. Therefore, if you want to use e-mail, you will have to disable the UPN claim in your federation server. See “Working with UPN and e-mail Claims” for more information.

e. To add a group claim, type the name of the claim you want the SharePoint site to use in the Users/Groups section. For example, create an organizational group claim named Adatum Contributers on the Federation Server. Add the claim name Adatum Contributers to the Sharepoint site as you would a Windows user or group. You can assign this claim Home Members [Contribute], and then any user who accesses the SharePoint site by using this group claim will have Contributor access to the site.

f. Select the appropriate permission level or SharePoint group.

g. Click OK.

5. Use the text editor of your choice to open the web.config file for the extranet site, and add the following entry in the <configSections> node.

<sectionGroup name="system.web">

<section name="websso" type="System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.WebSsoConfigurationHandler, System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, Custom=null" />

</sectionGroup>

6. Add the following entry to the <httpModules> node

<add name="Identity Federation Services Application Authentication Module" type="System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.WebSsoAuthenticationModule, System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, Custom=null" />

Note The ADFS authentication module should always be specified after the Sharepoint SPRequest module in the <httpModules> node of the web.config file. It is safest to add it as the last entry in that section.

7. Add the following entry anywhere under the <system.web> node.

<membership defaultProvider="SingleSignOnMembershipProvider2">

<providers>

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<add name="SingleSignOnMembershipProvider2" type="System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.SingleSignOnMembershipProvider2, System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.PartialTrust, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />

</providers>

</membership>

<roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="SingleSignOnRoleProvider2">

<providers>

<add name="SingleSignOnRoleProvider2" type="System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.SingleSignOnRoleProvider2, System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.PartialTrust, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />

</providers>

</roleManager>

<websso>

<authenticationrequired />

<auditlevel>55</auditlevel>

<urls>

<returnurl>https://your_application</returnurl>

</urls>

<fs>https://fs-server/adfs/fs/federationserverservice.asmx</fs>

<isSharePoint />

</websso>

Note Change the value for fs-server to your Federation Server computer, and change the value of your_application to reflect the URL of your extranet Web application.

8. Browse to the https://extranet.treyresearch.net Web site as an ADFS user who has permissions to the extranet web site.

About using Central AdministrationYou can also use Central Adminstration policy to grant rights to ADFS users, but it is best not to use that method for the following reasons:

Granting rights by policy is a very coarse operation. It allows the user (or group) to have the same set of rights in every Web site, in every site collection on the whole Web application. It

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should be used very judiciously; in this particular scenario, we can grant access to ADFS users without using this method.

After the sites are being used in an extranet environment, it is very likely that the internal users will be responsible for granting access to sites and content. Because only the farm administrators have access to the Central Administration site, it makes the most sense that internal users can add ADFS claims from the default zone site that is using Windows authentication.

As you extend Web applications by using different providers, you can configure one or more of them to be able to find users and groups from various providers that you are using on that Web application. In this scenario, we configured our site that uses Windows authentication in a way that allows users of that site to select other Windows users, Windows groups, and ADFS claims, all from one site.

Working with the People PickerThe People Picker cannot perform wildcard searches for searching roles. If you have a Web SSO Role provider role named Readers, and you type Read in the People Picker search dialog box, it will not find your claim. If you type Readers, it will. This is not a bug, you just cannot perform wildcard searching by using the Role provider.

Command-line executable files like stsadm.exe will not be able to resolve the ADFS claims by default. For example, you might want to add a new user to the extranet site by using the stsadm.exe –o adduser command. To enable Stsadm (or other executable file) to resolve users, create a new config file by doing the following:

Create a new file named stsadm.exe.config in the same directory where stsadm.exe is located (%programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared Debug\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN). Add the following entry in the stsadm.exe.config file:

<configuration>

<system.web>


<providers>


</providers>

</membership>


<providers>

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</providers>

</roleManager>

</system.web>

</configuration>

Note Change the value of fs-server to your resource Federation Server (adfsresource.treyresearch.net).

Working with E-mail and UPN claimsTo configure whether or not the Federation Server is enabled to send e-mail or UPN claims to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, perform the following procedure.

Configure E-mail and UPN claims on a Federation Server

1. From Administrative Tools on your Federation Server, open the ADFS snap-in.

Note You can also open the ADFS snap-in by typing ADFS.MSC in the Run dialog box.

1. Select your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 application node (your application should already be added to the list of nodes).

2. In the claims list on the right, right-click E-mail, and select Enable or Disable.

3. In the claims list on the right, right-click UPN, and select Enable or Disable.

Note If both UPN and E-mail are enabled, Office SharePoint Server 2007 will use UPN to perform user claim verification. Therefore, when configuring the Office SharePoint Server 2007, be careful about which user claim you enter. Also note that the UPN claim will only work consistently if the UPN suffixes and the e-mail suffixes that are accepted by the Federation Server are identical. This is because the membership provider is e-mail based. Because of this complexity in configuring UPN claims, e-mail is the recommended user claim setting for membership authentication.

Working with groups and organizational group claimsIn Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, rights can be assigned to Active Directory groups by adding them to a SharePoint group or directly to a permission level . The level of permissions a given

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user has on a site is calculated based on the Active Directory groups the user is a member of, the SharePoint groups the user belongs to, and any permission levels that the user has been directlyadded to.

When you use ADFS as a role provider in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, the process is different. There is no way for the Web SSO provider to directly resolve an Active Directory group; instead, it resolves membership by using organizational group claims. When you use ADFS with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must create a set of organizational group claims in ADFS. You can then associate multiple Active Directory groups with an ADFS organizational group claim.

For group claims to work with the latest version of ADFS, you need to edit the web.config file for the ADFS application in IIS on your ADFS server.

Open the web.config file and add <getGroupClaims /> to the <FederationServerConfiguration> node inside the <System.Web> node, as shown in the following example.

<configuration>

<system.web>

<FederationServerConfiguration>

<getGroupClaims />

</FederationServerConfiguration>

</system.web>

</configuration>

In the Adatum (Account Forest), do the following:

1. Create an Active Directory group named Trey SharePoint Readers.

2. Create an Active Directory group named Trey SharePoint Contributors.

3. Add Alansh to the Readers group and Adamcar to the Contributors group.

4. Create an organizational group claim named Trey SharePoint Readers.

5. Create an organizational group claim named Trey SharePoint Contributors.

6. Right-click the Active Directory account store, and then click New Group Claim Extraction.

a. Select the Trey SharePoint Readers organizational group claim, and then associate it with the Trey SharePoint Readers Active Directory group.

b. Repeat step 6, and then associate the Trey SharePoint Contributors group claim with the Trey SharePoint Contributors Active Directory group.

7. Right-click the Trey Research Account Partner, and then create the outgoing claim mappings:

a. Select the Trey SharePoint Reader claim, and then map to outgoing claim adatum-trey-readers.

b. Select the Trey SharePoint Contributor claim, and then map to outgoing claim adatum-trey-contributors.

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Note The claim mapping names must be agreed on between the organizations, and they must match exactly.

On the Trey Research side, start ADFS.MSC, and then do the following:

1. Create an organizational group claim named Adatum SharePoint Readers.

2. Create an organizational group claim named Adatum SharePoint Contributors.

3. Create incoming group mappings for your claims:

a. Right-click the Adatum account partner, and then click Incoming Group Claim Mapping.

b. Select Adatum SharePoint Readers, and then map it to the incoming claim name adatum-trey-readers.

c. Select Adatum SharePoint Contributors, and then map it to the incoming claim name adatum-trey-contributors.

4. Right-click the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application, and then click Enable on both the Reader and Contributor claims.

Browse to the http://trey-moss site on the Trey Research side as the site administrator, and then do the following:

1. Click the Site Actions menu, point to Site Settings, and then click People and Groups.

2. If it is not already selected, click the Members group for your site.

3. Click New, and then click Add Users on the toolbar.

4. Click the address book icon next to the Users/Groups box.

5. In the Find box in the People Picker dialog box, type

Adatum SharePoint ReadersIn the Give Permission section, select SharePoint group home Visitors [Readers].

6. In the Find box, type

Adatum SharePoint ContributorsIn the Give Permission section, select SharePoint group home Members [Contribute].

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Run the Best Practices Analyzer Tool (Windows SharePoint Services)You can run the Best Practices Analyzer tool to check for common issues and best security practices. The tool generates a report that can help you optimize the configuration of your system. The tool can be run locally or from a server that is not attached to the server farm. To download the tool, click Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=83335&clcid=0x409).

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Configure authentication (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Configure anonymous access (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

Configure digest authentication (Windows SharePoint Services)

Configure forms-based authentication (Windows SharePoint Services)

Configure Web SSO authentication by using ADFS (Windows SharePoint Services)

Authentication is the process of validating client identity, usually by means of a designated authority. Web site authentication helps establish that a user who is trying to access Web site resources can be verified as an authenticated entity. An authentication application obtains credentials from a user who is requesting Web site access. Credentials can be various forms of identification, such as user name and password. The authentication application tries to validate the credentials against an authentication authority. If the credentials are valid, the user who submitted the credentials is considered to be an authenticated identity.

Windows SharePoint Services authentication To determine the most appropriate Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 authentication mechanism to use, consider the following issues:

To use a Windows authentication mechanism, you need an environment that supports user accounts that can be authenticated by a trusted authority.

If you use a Windows authentication mechanism, the operating system performs user credential management tasks. If you use an authentication provider other than Windows, such as forms authentication, you must plan and implement a credential management system and determine where to store user credentials.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 authentication for is built on the ASP.NET authentication model and includes three authentication providers:

Windows authentication provider

Forms authentication provider

Web SSO authentication provider

You can use the Active Directory directory service for authentication, or you can design your environment to validate user credentials against other data stores, such as a Microsoft SQL Server database, a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) directory, or any other directory that has an ASP.NET 2.0 membership provider. The membership provider specifies the type of data store you are going to use. The default ASP.NET 2.0 membership provider uses a SQL Server database. ASP.NET 2.0 includes a SQL Server membership provider.

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The authentication providers are used to authenticate against user and group credentials that are stored in Active Directory, in a SQL Server database, or in a Non-Active Directory LDAP directory service (such as NDS). For more information about ASP.NET membership providers, see Configuring an ASP.NET Application to Use Membership (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=87014&clcid=0x409).

Windows authentication provider The Windows authentication provider supports the following authentication methods:

Anonymous authentication

Anonymous authentication enables users to find resources in the public areas of Web sites without having to provide authentication credentials. Internet Information Services (IIS) creates the IUSR_computername account to authenticate anonymous users in response to a request for Web content. The IUSR_computername account, where computername is the name of the server that is running IIS, gives the user access to resources anonymously under the context of the IUSR account. You can reset anonymous user access to use any valid Windows account. In a stand-alone environment, the IUSR_computername account is on the local server. If the server is a domain controller, the IUSR_computername account is defined for the domain. By default, anonymous access is disabled when you create a new Web application. This provides an additional layer of security, because IIS rejects anonymous access requests before they can ever be processed if anonymous access is disabled.

Basic authentication

Basic authentication requires previously assigned Windows account credentials for user access. Basic authentication enables a Web browser to provide credentials when making a request during an HTTP transaction. Because user credentials are not encrypted for network transmission, but are sent over the network in plaintext, using basic authentication over an unsecured HTTP connection is not recommended. To use basic authentication, you should enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption.

Digest authentication

Digest authentication provides the same functionality as basic authentication, but with increased security. User credentials are encrypted instead of being sent over the network in plaintext. User credentials are sent as an MD5 message digest in which the original user name and password cannot be deciphered. Digest authentication uses a challenge/response protocol that requires the authentication requestor to present valid credentials in response to a challenge from the server. To authenticate against the server, the client has to supply an MD5 message digest in a response that contains a shared secret password string. The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is described in detail in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC 1321 (http://www.ietf.org).

To use digest authentication, note the following requirements:

The user and IIS server must be members of, or trusted by, the same domain.

Users must have a valid Windows user account stored in Active Directory on the domain controller.

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The domain must use a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 domain controller.

You must install the IISSuba.dll file on the domain controller. This file is copied automatically during Windows Server 2003 Setup.

Integrated Windows authentication using NTLM

This method is for Windows servers that are not running Active Directory on a domain controller. NTLM is a secure protocol that supports user credential encryption and transmission over a network. NTLM is based on encrypting user names and passwords before sending the user names and passwords over the network. NTLM is the authentication protocol that is used in Windows NT Server and in Windows 2000 Server workgroup environments, and in many Active Directory deployments. NTLM is used in mixed Windows 2000 Active Directory domain environments that must authenticate Windows NT systems.

Forms authentication provider The forms authentication provider supports authentication against credentials stored in Active Directory, in a database such as a SQL Server database, or in an LDAP data store such as Novell eDirectory, Novell Directory Services (NDS), or Sun ONE. Forms authentication enables user authentication based on validation of credential input from a logon form. Unauthenticated requests are redirected to a logon page, where the user must provide valid credentials and submit the form. If the request can be authenticated, the system issues a cookie that contains a key for reestablishing the identity for subsequent requests.

Web single sign-on (SSO) authentication provider Web SSO is also referred to as federated authentication or delegate authentication, because it supports secure communication across network boundaries.

SSO is an authentication method that enables access to multiple secure resources after a single successful authentication of user credentials. There are several different implementations of SSO authentication. Web SSO authentication supports secure communication across network boundaries by enabling users who have been authenticated in one organization to access Web applications in another organization. Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) supports Web SSO. In an ADFS scenario, two organizations can create a federation trust relationship that enables users in one organization to access Web-based applications that are controlled by another organization. For information about using ADFS to configure Web SSO authentication, see Configure Web SSO authentication by using ADFS (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Configure digest authentication (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

About digest authentication

Enable digest authentication for a zone of a Web application

Configure IIS to enable digest authentication

About digest authenticationBasic authentication requires previously assigned Windows account credentials for user access. Basic authentication enables a Web browser to provide credentials when making a request during an HTTP transaction. Because user credentials are not encrypted for network transmission, but are sent over the network in plaintext, using basic authentication over an unsecured HTTP connection is not recommended. To use basic authentication, you should enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption.

Digest authentication provides the same functionality as basic authentication, but with increased security. User credentials are encrypted instead of being sent over the network in plaintext. User credentials are sent as an MD5 message digest in which the original user name and password cannot be deciphered. Digest authentication uses a challenge/response protocol that requires the authentication requestor to present valid credentials in response to a challenge from the server. To authenticate against the server, the client has to supply an MD5 message digest in a response that contains a shared secret password string. The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is described in detail in RFC 1321. For access to RFC 1321, see http://www.ietf.org.

To use digest authentication, note the following requirements:

The user and IIS server must be members of, or trusted by, the same domain.

Users must have a valid Windows user account stored in Active Directory on the domain controller.

The domain must use a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 domain controller.

You must install the IISSuba.dll file on the domain controller. This file is copied automatically during Windows Server 2003 Setup.

You must install Windows Server 2003 with SP2 or later. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 does not support digest authentication on Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or earlier.

To enable digest authentication to work with browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or Internet Explorer 7.0, you must install the IIS hotfix described in Knowledge Base article 932729. For information about this hotfix, see FIX: Error message when you try to access a Web site that is hosted on IIS 6.0: Access Denied (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=92784&clcid=0x409).

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Enable digest authentication for a zone of a Web applicationUse the following procedures to enable digest authentication for a zone of a Web application. Within each Web application, you can categorize different classes of users into one of the following five zones:

Internet is the zone used for customers.

Intranet is the zone used for internal employees.

Default is the zone used for remote employees.

Custom is the zone used for administrators.

Extranet is the zone used for partners.

Enable digest authentication for a zone of a Web application

1. From Administrative Tools, open the SharePoint Central Administration Web site application.

2. On the Central Administration home page, click Application Management.3. On the Application Management page, in the Application Security section, click

Authentication providers.

4. On the Authentication Providers page, make sure the Web application that is listed in the Web Application box (under Site Actions) is the one that you want to configure. If the listed Web application is not the one that you want to configure, click the drop-down arrow to the right of the Web Application drop-down list box and select Change Web Application.

5. In the Select Web Application dialog box, click the Web application that you want to configure.

6. On the Authentication Providers page, click the zone of the Web application on which you want to enable digest authentication. The zones that are configured for the selected Web application are listed on the Authentication Providers page.

7. On the Edit Authentication page, in the IIS Authentication section, clear the Integrated Windows authentication and Basic authentication check boxes, and then click Save.

At this point use the IIS Management Console to configure IIS to enable digest authentication.

Configure IIS to enable digest authenticationUse the following procedures to configure IIS to enable digest authentication.

Configure IIS to enable digest authentication

1. From Administrative Tools on the Start menu, click Internet Information Services to start the IIS Management Console.

2. Under the Web Sites node on the console tree, right-click the IIS Web site that

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corresponds to the Web application zone on which you want to configure digest authentication, and then click Properties.

3. On the Web Site Properties page, click the Directory Security tab.

4. In the Anonymous access and authentication control section, click the Edit button.

5. In the Authenticated access section of the Authentication Methods dialog box, select Digest authentication for Windows domain servers. A dialog box is displayed informing you that digest authentication only works with Active Directory domain accounts, and asking you if you want to continue. Click Yes.

6. In the Realm section of the of the Authentication Methods dialog box, click the Select button.

7. Select the appropriate realm and click OK. On the other open dialog boxes, click OK.

At this point, your Web site is configured to use digest authentication.

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Configure forms-based authentication (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

About forms-based authentication

Configure forms-based authentication across multiple zones

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 authentication is performed by an authentication mechanism that is supported by one of the available authentication providers. Providers are modules that contain the code necessary to authenticate the credentials of a requestor Authentication for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is built on the ASP.NET authentication model and includes three authentication providers:

Windows authentication provider

Forms-based authentication provider

Web Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication provider

In addition, ASP.NET supports the use of pluggable authentication providers, which means that you can write an authentication provider to support any credential store that you want to use.

About forms-based authenticationThe forms-based authentication provider supports authentication against credentials stored in Active Directory, in a database such as a SQL Server database, or in a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) data store such as Novell eDirectory, Novell Directory Services (NDS), or Sun ONE. Forms-based authentication enables user authentication based on validation of credential input from a logon form. Unauthenticated requests are redirected to a logon page, where the user must provide valid credentials and submit the form. If the request can be authenticated, the system issues a cookie that contains a key for reestablishing the identity for subsequent requests.

The forms-based authentication provider supports authentication against credentials stored in one of the following:

The Active Directory directory service

A database

An LDAP data store

To enable forms-based authentication for a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site and add users to the user account database, perform the following procedures.

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Create a new site

1. On the home page of the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, click Application Management.

2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Web Application Management section, click Create or extend Web application.

3. On the Create or Extend Web Application page, click Create a new Web application.

4. On the Create New Web Application page, in the Security Configuration section, make sure NTLM is selected under Authentication provider. Also, select Yes under Allow Anonymous.

5. Use the default entries to complete the new Web application creation procedure and click OK.

At this point, you have created a new site placeholder. Use the following procedure to create a site collection.


1. On the top link bar, click Application Management. 2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click

Create site collection.

3. On the Create Site Collection page, in the Web Application section, verify that the Web application in which you want to create the site collection is selected.

If it is not, click Change Web Application on the Web Application menu. Then, on the Select Web Application page, click the Web application in which you want to create the site collection.

4. In the Title and Description section, type the title and description for the site collection.

5. In the Web Site Address section, under URL, select the path to use for your URL.

Note If you select a wildcard inclusion path, you must also type the site name to use in the URL of your site. The paths available for the URL option are taken from the list of managed paths that have been defined as wildcard inclusions.

6. In the Template Selection section, in the Select a template list, select the template that you want to use for the top-level site in the site collection.

7. In the Primary Site Collection Administrator section, enter the user name (in the form domain\username) for the user who will be the site collection administrator.

8. If you want to identify a user as the secondary owner of the new top-level Web site (recommended), in the Secondary Site Collection Administrator section, enter the user name for the secondary administrator of the site collection.

9. If you are using quotas to limit resource use for site collections, in the Quota Template section, click a template in the Select a quota template list.

10. Click OK.

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At this point, you have created a site collection. Use the following procedure to configure a forms-based authentication provider.

Configure a forms-based authentication provider

1. On the home page of the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, click Application Management.

2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Web Application Management section, click Web application list.

3. On the Web Application List page, double-click the new Web application that you created in the previous procedure.

4. On the Application Management page, in the Application Security section, click Authentication providers.

5. On the Authentication Providers page, click the zone name for the authentication provider whose settings you want to configure.

6. On the Edit Authentication page, in the Authentication Type section, select Forms.

If you need to explicitly grant anonymous access to a site collection, in the Anonymous Access section, select the Enable anonymous access check box for all sites within the Web application. To disable anonymous access for all sites within the Web application, clear the Enable anonymous access check box.

Note If you enable anonymous access here, anonymous access can still be denied at the site collection level or at the site level. However, if you disable anonymous access here, it is disabled at all levels within the Web application.

7. In the Membership Provider Name section, in the Membership provider name box, type the name of the membership provider that you want to use.

Note If the Web application is going to support forms-based authentication, the membership provider must be correctly configured in the Web.config file for the IIS Web application that hosts SharePoint content on each Web server. The membership provider must also be added to the Web.config file for the IIS Web application that hosts Central Administration.

8. In the Client Integration section, under Enable Client Integration, make sure No is selected, and then click Save.

If you select Yes, features that start client applications according to document types will be enabled. This option will not work correctly with some types of forms-based authentication.

If you select No, features that start client applications according to document types will be disabled. Users will have to download documents and then upload them after they make changes.

Notes:

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For forms-based authentication, client integration is disabled by default. When client integration is disabled, links to client applications are not visible and documents cannot be opened in client applications; documents can only be opened in a Web browser. However, users can download documents, edit them in client applications locally, and then upload them to the site.

Client integration is disabled by default when you use forms-based authentication. This is because client integration does not natively support forms-based authentication. You might be able to use many client integration features with forms-based authentication, and there are workarounds available to implement varying levels of client integration functionality with forms-based authentication. However, if published workarounds are inadequate, or if you find unexpected issues using workarounds, we do not provide support and there are no product changes to address these issues. If you plan to use client integration with forms-based authentication, you must fully test any available solutions or workarounds to determine if the performance and functionality are acceptable in your environment.

Product Support can provide commercially reasonable support to help you troubleshoot published workarounds.

After a user provides credentials, the system issues a cookie that identifies the user. On subsequent requests, the system first checks the cookie to see whether the user has already been authenticated, so the user does not have to supply credentials again.

If the user has not selected the Remember me? box on the logon page, the credential information is not cached on the client computer, and is valid only during the current session. This is especially important in a scenario where users are connecting from public computers or kiosks, where you would not want user credentials to be cached. Users are required to reauthenticate if they close the browser, log off from a session, or navigate to another Web site. Also, you can configure a maximum idle session time-out value to force reauthentication if a user is idle for a prolonged period of time during a session.

Configure forms-based authentication across multiple zonesImplementing forms-based authentication can interfere with search functionality. To enable search across content authenticated using a custom authentication mechanism, you must have the Default zone configured to support NTLM authentication. The Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 crawler polls zones in the following order:

Default zone

Intranet zone

Internet zone

Custom zone

Extranet zone

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Note If you use forms-based authentication and the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 crawler polls a zone that is configured to support Kerberos authentication, the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 crawler will fail.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 does not allow a Web application to work with the same provider name across multiple zones. You can configure the Web.config file to use the same provider for each zone; however, the name of the provider has to be unique for each zone.

For additional information on authentication mechanisms and samples for configuring forms-based authentication with multiple providers, see Plan for authentication (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Configure Web SSO authentication by using ADFS (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

About federated authentication systems

Before you begin

Configuring your extranet Web application to use Web SSO authentication

Allowing users access to your extranet Web site

Working with the People Picker

Working with E-mail and UPN claims

Working with groups and organizational claims

About federated authentication systemsWindows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides support for federated authentication scenarios where the authentication system is not local to the computer that hosts Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Federated authentication systems are also known as Web single sign-on (SSO) systems. With Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), people in one company can access servers hosted by a different company by using their existing Active Directory accounts. ADFS also establishes a trust relationship between the two companies and a seamless one-time logon experience for end users. ADFS relies on 302 redirects to authenticate end users. Users are issued an authentication token (cookie) after they are authenticated.

Before you beginBefore you use ADFS to configure Web SSO authentication for your extranet Web application, you should become familiar with the following resources:

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog entry about configuring multiple authentication providers (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/08/16/configuring-multiple-authentication-providers-for-sharepoint-2007.aspx).

Step-by-Step Guide for Active Directory Federation Services (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=062F7382-A82F-4428-9BBD-A103B9F27654&displayLang=en). The server names and examples used in this article are based on this step-by-step guide, which describes setting up ADFS in a small lab environment. In this environment, a new server named Trey-SharePoint is joined to the Trey Research forest. Follow the steps in the step-by-step guide to configure your ADFS infrastructure. However, because this article describes how to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a claims-aware application mode, you do not have to implement all the steps

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for building Windows NT token agent applications that are described in the step-by-step guide.

Note When you use the People Picker to add users to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 validates the users against the provider, which in this example is ADFS. Therefore, you should configure the Federation Server before you configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Important The setup process has been captured in a VBScript file that you can use to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to use ADFS for authentication. This script file is contained in the file (SetupSharePointADFS.zip) and is available on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies blog, listed in the Attachments section. For more information, see the blog page A script to configure SharePoint to use ADFS for authentication.

Configuring your extranet Web application to use Web SSO authentication1. Install the Web Agent for Claims Aware Applications.

2. Download and install the hot fix for ADFS described in The role provider and the membership provider cannot be called from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a Windows Server 2003 R2-based computer that is running ADFS and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920764/en-us). This hot fix will be included in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2).

3. Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, configure all the services and servers in the farm, and then create a new Web application. By default, this Web application will be configured to use Windows authentication, and it will be the entry point through which your intranet users will access the site. In the example used in this article, the site is named http://trey-moss.

4. Extend the Web application that you created in step 2 in another zone. On the Application Management page in the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, click Create or Extend Web Application, click Extend an existing Web Application, and then do the following:

a. Add a host header. This is the DNS name by which the site will be known to users in the extranet. In this example, the name is extranet.treyresearch.net.

b. Change the zone to Extranet.

c. Give the site a host header name that you will configure in DNS for your extranet users to resolve against.

d. Click Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and change the port number to 443. ADFS requires that sites be configured to use SSL.

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e. In the Load Balanced URL box, delete the text string :443. Internet Information Services (IIS) will automatically use port 443 because you specified the port number in the previous step.

f. Complete the rest of the steps on the page to finish extending the Web application.

5. On the Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) page, verify that the URLs resemble the following table.

Internal URL Zone Public URL for Zone

http://trey-moss Default http://trey-moss

https://extranet.treyresearch.net Extranet https://extranet.treyresearch.net

6. Add an SSL certificate to the Extranet Web Site in IIS. Make sure that this SSL certificate is issued to extranet.treyresearch.net, because this is the name that clients will use when they access the sites.

7. Configure the Authentication provider for the extranet zone on your Web application to use Web SSO by doing the following:

a. On the Application Management page of your farm’s Central Administration site, click Authentication Providers.

b. Click Change in the upper-right corner of the page, and then select the Web application on which you want to enable Web SSO.

c. In the list of two zones that are mapped for this Web application (both of which should say Windows), click the Windows link for the Extranet zone.

d. In the Authentication Type section, click Web Single Sign On.

e. In the Membership provider name box, type

SingleSignOnMembershipProvider2Make a note of this value; you will be adding it to the name element of the <membership> section in the web.config files that you will edit later in this procedure.

f. In the Role manager name box, type

SingleSignOnRoleProvider2Make a note of this value; you will be adding it to the name element of the <roleManager> section in the web.config files you will edit later in this procedure.

g. Make sure the Enable Client Integration setting is set to No.

h. Click Save.

Your extranet Web application is now configured to use Web SSO. However, at this point, the site will be inaccessible because no one has permissions to it. The next step is to assign permissions to users so that they can access this site.

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Note After selecting WebSSO as the Authentication Provider, Anonymous Authentication will be automatically enabled for the SharePoint site in IIS (no user action is required). This setting is required for the site to allow access using only claims.

Allowing users access to your extranet Web site1. Use a text editor to open the web.config file for the Web site on the default zone that is using

Windows authentication.

2. Add the following entry anywhere in the <system.web> node.

<membership>

<providers>


</providers>

</membership>

<roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider">

<providers>

<remove name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" />


</providers>

</roleManager>

3. Change the value for fs-server to reflect your resource Federation Server (adfsresource.treyresearch.net). Ensure that you entered the correct membership provider and the role manager names on the Central Administration Authentication Providers page. When this entry is added to web.config, the People Picker on the default zone site that is using Windows authentication is able to know about the ADFS providers and, therefore, can resolve the ADFS claims. This enables you to grant permissions to the ADFS claims on your Web site.

4. Grant ADFS claims access to the site by doing the following:

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a. Navigate to the Web site on the default zone that uses Windows authentication as an administrator of the site.

b. Click the Site Actions menu, point to Site Settings, and then click Advanced Permissions.

c. Click New, and then click Add Users.

d. To add a user claim, specify their e-mail address or User Principal Name in the Users/Groups section. If both UPN and e-mail claims are sent from the federation server, then SharePoint will use UPN to verify against the MembershipProvider. Therefore, if you want to use e-mail, you will have to disable the UPN claim in your federation server. See “Working with UPN and e-mail Claims” for more information.

e. To add a group claim, type the name of the claim you want the SharePoint site to use in the Users/Groups section. For example, create an organizational group claim named Adatum Contributers on the Federation Server. Add the claim name Adatum Contributers to the Sharepoint site as you would a Windows user or group. You can assign this claim Home Members [Contribute], and then any user who accesses the SharePoint site by using this group claim will have Contributor access to the site.

f. Select the appropriate permission level or SharePoint group.

g. Click OK.

5. Use the text editor of your choice to open the web.config file for the extranet site, and add the following entry in the <configSections> node.

<sectionGroup name="system.web">

<section name="websso" type="System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.WebSsoConfigurationHandler, System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, Custom=null" />

</sectionGroup>

6. Add the following entry to the <httpModules> node

<add name="Identity Federation Services Application Authentication Module" type="System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.WebSsoAuthenticationModule, System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, Custom=null" />

Note The ADFS authentication module should always be specified after the Sharepoint SPRequest module in the <httpModules> node of the web.config file. It is safest to add it as the last entry in that section.

7. Add the following entry anywhere under the <system.web> node.


<providers>

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<add name="SingleSignOnMembershipProvider2" type="System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.SingleSignOnMembershipProvider2, System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.PartialTrust, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />

</providers>

</membership>


<providers>

<add name="SingleSignOnRoleProvider2" type="System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.SingleSignOnRoleProvider2, System.Web.Security.SingleSignOn.PartialTrust, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />

</providers>

</roleManager>

<websso>

<authenticationrequired />

<auditlevel>55</auditlevel>

<urls>

<returnurl>https://your_application</returnurl>

</urls>

<fs>https://fs-server/adfs/fs/federationserverservice.asmx</fs>

<isSharePoint />

</websso>

Note Change the value for fs-server to your Federation Server computer, and change the value of your_application to reflect the URL of your extranet Web application.

8. Browse to the https://extranet.treyresearch.net Web site as an ADFS user who has permissions to the extranet web site.

About using Central AdministrationYou can also use Central Adminstration policy to grant rights to ADFS users, but it is best not to use that method for the following reasons:

Granting rights by policy is a very coarse operation. It allows the user (or group) to have the same set of rights in every Web site, in every site collection on the whole Web application. It

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should be used very judiciously; in this particular scenario, we can grant access to ADFS users without using this method.

After the sites are being used in an extranet environment, it is very likely that the internal users will be responsible for granting access to sites and content. Because only the farm administrators have access to the Central Administration site, it makes the most sense that internal users can add ADFS claims from the default zone site that is using Windows authentication.

As you extend Web applications by using different providers, you can configure one or more of them to be able to find users and groups from various providers that you are using on that Web application. In this scenario, we configured our site that uses Windows authentication in a way that allows users of that site to select other Windows users, Windows groups, and ADFS claims, all from one site.

Working with the People PickerThe People Picker cannot perform wildcard searches for searching roles. If you have a Web SSO Role provider role named Readers, and you type Read in the People Picker search dialog box, it will not find your claim. If you type Readers, it will. This is not a bug, you just cannot perform wildcard searching by using the Role provider.

Command-line executable files like stsadm.exe will not be able to resolve the ADFS claims by default. For example, you might want to add a new user to the extranet site by using the stsadm.exe –o adduser command. To enable Stsadm (or other executable file) to resolve users, create a new config file by doing the following:

Create a new file named stsadm.exe.config in the same directory where stsadm.exe is located (%programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared Debug\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN). Add the following entry in the stsadm.exe.config file:

<configuration>

<system.web>


<providers>


</providers>

</membership>


<providers>

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</providers>

</roleManager>

</system.web>

</configuration>

Note Change the value of fs-server to your resource Federation Server (adfsresource.treyresearch.net).

Working with E-mail and UPN claimsTo configure whether or not the Federation Server is enabled to send e-mail or UPN claims to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, perform the following procedure.

Configure E-mail and UPN claims on a Federation Server

1. From Administrative Tools on your Federation Server, open the ADFS snap-in.

Note You can also open the ADFS snap-in by typing ADFS.MSC in the Run dialog box.

1. Select your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 application node (your application should already be added to the list of nodes).

2. In the claims list on the right, right-click E-mail, and select Enable or Disable.

3. In the claims list on the right, right-click UPN, and select Enable or Disable.

Note If both UPN and E-mail are enabled, Office SharePoint Server 2007 will use UPN to perform user claim verification. Therefore, when configuring the Office SharePoint Server 2007, be careful about which user claim you enter. Also note that the UPN claim will only work consistently if the UPN suffixes and the e-mail suffixes that are accepted by the Federation Server are identical. This is because the membership provider is e-mail based. Because of this complexity in configuring UPN claims, e-mail is the recommended user claim setting for membership authentication.

Working with groups and organizational group claimsIn Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, rights can be assigned to Active Directory groups by adding them to a SharePoint group or directly to a permission level . The level of permissions a given

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user has on a site is calculated based on the Active Directory groups the user is a member of, the SharePoint groups the user belongs to, and any permission levels that the user has been directlyadded to.

When you use ADFS as a role provider in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, the process is different. There is no way for the Web SSO provider to directly resolve an Active Directory group; instead, it resolves membership by using organizational group claims. When you use ADFS with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must create a set of organizational group claims in ADFS. You can then associate multiple Active Directory groups with an ADFS organizational group claim.

For group claims to work with the latest version of ADFS, you need to edit the web.config file for the ADFS application in IIS on your ADFS server.

Open the web.config file and add <getGroupClaims /> to the <FederationServerConfiguration> node inside the <System.Web> node, as shown in the following example.

<configuration>

<system.web>

<FederationServerConfiguration>

<getGroupClaims />

</FederationServerConfiguration>

</system.web>

</configuration>

In the Adatum (Account Forest), do the following:

1. Create an Active Directory group named Trey SharePoint Readers.

2. Create an Active Directory group named Trey SharePoint Contributors.

3. Add Alansh to the Readers group and Adamcar to the Contributors group.

4. Create an organizational group claim named Trey SharePoint Readers.

5. Create an organizational group claim named Trey SharePoint Contributors.

6. Right-click the Active Directory account store, and then click New Group Claim Extraction.

a. Select the Trey SharePoint Readers organizational group claim, and then associate it with the Trey SharePoint Readers Active Directory group.

b. Repeat step 6, and then associate the Trey SharePoint Contributors group claim with the Trey SharePoint Contributors Active Directory group.

7. Right-click the Trey Research Account Partner, and then create the outgoing claim mappings:

a. Select the Trey SharePoint Reader claim, and then map to outgoing claim adatum-trey-readers.

b. Select the Trey SharePoint Contributor claim, and then map to outgoing claim adatum-trey-contributors.

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Note The claim mapping names must be agreed on between the organizations, and they must match exactly.

On the Trey Research side, start ADFS.MSC, and then do the following:

1. Create an organizational group claim named Adatum SharePoint Readers.

2. Create an organizational group claim named Adatum SharePoint Contributors.

3. Create incoming group mappings for your claims:

a. Right-click the Adatum account partner, and then click Incoming Group Claim Mapping.

b. Select Adatum SharePoint Readers, and then map it to the incoming claim name adatum-trey-readers.

c. Select Adatum SharePoint Contributors, and then map it to the incoming claim name adatum-trey-contributors.

4. Right-click the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application, and then click Enable on both the Reader and Contributor claims.

Browse to the http://trey-moss site on the Trey Research side as the site administrator, and then do the following:

1. Click the Site Actions menu, point to Site Settings, and then click People and Groups.

2. If it is not already selected, click the Members group for your site.

3. Click New, and then click Add Users on the toolbar.

4. Click the address book icon next to the Users/Groups box.

5. In the Find box in the People Picker dialog box, type

Adatum SharePoint ReadersIn the Give Permission section, select SharePoint group home Visitors [Readers].

6. In the Find box, type

Adatum SharePoint ContributorsIn the Give Permission section, select SharePoint group home Members [Contribute].

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White paper: SQL Server Reporting Services integration with SharePoint Products and Technologies (Windows SharePoint Services)Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes functionality to create and manage reports. However, when you integrate Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) database software, you can use SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS) to create richer reporting experiences. For example, an end user can view and manage SSRS reports completely from within a Windows SharePoint Services environment.

The following white papers are available to help you understand how SSRS and the SharePoint Products and Technologies can be integrated to provide additional business intelligence capabilities:

2007 Microsoft Office System Business Intelligence Integration (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=98657) Provides an overview of integrating SQL Server 2005 with the business intelligence features available in the SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Installation/Configuration Guide for SharePoint Integration Mode (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=98664) Provides detailed information about configuring SSRS in SharePoint Integration Mode.

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C. Deploy and configure SharePoint sites

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Chapter overview: Deploy and configure SharePoint sites (Windows SharePoint Services)After you have installed Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and performed the other configuration tasks for your servers, you are ready to begin creating SharePoint sites.

In this chapter:

Create or extend Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services) SharePoint sites are hosted by Web applications, so you must create one or more Web applications before you can create any sites. This article covers how to create a Web application, or how to extend a Web application to host the same content as another Web application.

Create zones for Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services) Each Web application can have as many as five zones, and each zone can have a different authentication method. A default zone is automatically created when you create a Web application. This article helps you configure any additional zones you need.

Create quota templates (Windows SharePoint Services) Quota templates enable you to set a limit on how large a site collection can become. This article helps you configure the quota templates you want to use for any site collections you create.

Configure alternate access mapping (Windows SharePoint Services) Alternate access mapping enables you to assign different URLs to the same site (for example, you can configure access via the HTTP protocol for internal users and via the HTTPS protocol for external users). Alternate access mapping settings are configured per zone at the Web application level. Although the settings can be configured at any time, it is useful to configure alternate access mapping before you create your SharePoint sites. This article helps you configure alternate access mapping for a Web application.

Create site collections (Windows SharePoint Services) After you have configured the settings that the previous articles describe, you can create a site collection. This article helps you create a site collection from Central Administration and assign primary and secondary owners. If you want to allow users to create their own sites, you need to configure Self-Service Site Management for the Web application. For more information about choosing a method to use for site creation, see Plan process for creating sites (Windows SharePoint Services).

Prepare to crawl host-named sites that use forms authentication If you are using host-named sites with forms authentication, you need to configure additional settings for search. This article helps you configure host-named sites for search crawls.

Prepare to crawl host-named sites that use Basic authentication If you are using host-named sites with Basic authentication, you need to configure additional settings for search. This article helps you configure host-named sites for search crawls.

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Add site content (Windows SharePoint Services) After you have created your site collection, you can begin adding site content. This article provides links to information that can help you add content to your sites.

Enable access for end users (Windows SharePoint Services) After you have created your site, you can add users and grant them access to the site. This article helps you add users to a site collection.

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Create or extend Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services)Before you can create a site or a site collection, you must first create a Web application. A Web application is comprised of an Internet Information Services (IIS) site with a unique application pool. When you create a new Web application, you also create a new database and define the authentication method used to connect to the database.


In this article:


Extend an existing Web application

Create a new Web applicationCreate a new Web application




a. To choose to use an existing Web site, select Use an existing Web site, and specify the Web site on which to install your new Web application by selecting it from the drop-down menu.




e. In the Path box, type the path to the site directory on the server. If you are creating a new Web site, this field is populated with a suggested path. If you are using an existing

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Web site, this field is populated with the current path.





Note If you want users to be able to access any site content anonymously, you must enable anonymous access for the entire Web application. Then later, site owners can configure how anonymous access is used within their sites. For more information about anonymous access, see Choose which security groups to use (Windows SharePoint Services).



5. In the Load Balanced URL section, type the URL for the domain name for all sites that users will access in this Web application. This URL domain will be used in all links shown on pages within the Web application. By default, the box is populated with the current server name and port.

The Zone box is automatically set to Default for a new Web application, and cannot be changed from this page. To change the zone for a Web application, see Extend an existing Web application later in this article.



the default name.

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7. In the Reset Internet Information Services section, choose whether to allow Windows SharePoint Services to restart IIS on other farm servers. The local server must be restarted manually for the process to finish. If this option is not selected and you have more than one server in the farm, you must wait until the IIS Web site is created on all servers and then run iisreset /noforce on each Web server. The new IIS site is not usable until that action is completed. The choices are unavailable if your farm only contains a single server.


Item Action

Database Server Type the name of the database server and Microsoft SQL Server instance you want to use in the format <SERVERNAME\instance>.You can also use the default entry.



If you want to use Windows authentication, leave this option selected.



Extend an existing Web applicationYou can extend an existing Web application if you need to have separate IIS Web sites that expose the same content to users. This is typically used for extranet deployments where different

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users access content by using different domains. This option reuses the content database from an existing Web application.

Extend an existing Web application


2. On the Create or Extend Web Application page, in the Adding a SharePoint Web Application section, click Extend an existing Web application.

3. On the Extend Web Application to Another IIS Web Site page, in the Web Application section, click the Web application link and then click Change Web application.

4. On the Select Web Application page, click the Web application you want to extend.

5. On the Extend Web Application to Another IIS Web Site page, in the IIS Web Site section, you can select Use an existing IIS Web site to use a Web site that has already been created, or you can choose to leave Create a new IIS Web site selected. The Description, Port, and Path boxes are populated for either choice. You can choose to use the default entries or type the information you want in the boxes.

6. In the Security Configuration section, configure authentication and encryption for the extended Web application.




Note If you want users to be able to access any site content anonymously, you must enable anonymous access for the entire Web application. Then later, site owners can configure how anonymous access is used within their sites. For more information about anonymous access, see Choose which security groups to use (Windows SharePoint Services).


Important If you use SSL, you must add the appropriate certificate on each server by using IIS administration tools. For more information about using SSL, see Plan

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for secure communication within a server farm (Windows SharePoint Services).

7. In the Load Balanced URL section, type the URL for the domain name for all sites that users will access in this Web application. This URL domain will be used in all links shown on pages within the Web application. By default, the text box is populated with the current server name and port.

8. In the Load Balanced URL section, under Zone, select the zone for the extended Web application from the drop-down menu. You can choose Intranet, Internet, Custom, or Extranet.

9. Click OK to extend the Web application, or click Cancel to cancel the process and return to the Application Management page.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Extendvs: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Configure alternate access mapping (Windows SharePoint Services)Each Web application can be associated with a collection of mappings between internal and public URLs. Both internal and public URLs consist of the protocol and domain portion of the full URL (for example, https://www.fabrikam.com). A public URL is what users type to get to the SharePoint site, and that URL is what appears in the links on the pages. Internal URLs are in the URL requests that are sent to the SharePoint site. Many internal URLs can be associated with a single public URL in multi-server farms (for example, when a load balancer routes requests to specific IP addresses to various servers in the load-balancing cluster).

Each Web application supports five collections of mappings per URL; the five collections correspond to five zones (default, intranet, extranet, Internet, and custom). When the Web application receives a request for an internal URL in a particular zone, links on the pages returned to the user have the public URL for that zone. For more information, see Plan alternate access mappings (Windows SharePoint Services).

Manage alternate access mappings1. On the top navigation bar, click Operations.

2. On the Operations page, in the Global Configuration section, click Alternate access mappings.

Add an internal URL1. On the Alternate Access Mappings page, click Add Internal URLs.

2. If the mapping collection that you want to modify is not specified, then choose one. In the Alternate Access Mapping Collection section, click Change alternate access mapping collection on the Alternate Access Mapping Collection menu.

3. On the Select an Alternate Access Mapping Collection page, click a mapping collection.

4. In the Add internal URL section, in the URL protocol, host and port box, type the new internal URL (for example, https://www.fabrikam.com).

5. In the Zone list, click the zone for the internal URL.

6. Click Save.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Addalternatedomain: Stsadm operations (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Edit or delete an internal URLNote You cannot delete the last internal URL for the default zone.

1. On the Alternate Access Mappings page, click the internal URL that you want to edit or delete.

2. In the Edit internal URL section, modify the URL in the URL protocol, host and port box.

3. In the Zone list, click the zone for the internal URL.

4. Do one of the following:

Click Save to save your changes.

Click Cancel to discard your changes and return to the Alternate Access Mappings page.

5. Click Delete to delete the internal URL.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Deletealternatedomain: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

Edit public URLsNote There must always be a public URL for the default zone.

1. On the Alternate Access Mappings page, click Edit Public URLs.

2. If the mapping collection that you want to modify is not specified, then choose one. In the Alternate Access Mapping Collection section, click Change alternate access mapping collection on the Alternate Access Mapping Collection menu.

3. On the Select an Alternate Access Mapping Collection page, click a mapping collection.

4. In the Public URLs section, you may add new URLs or edit existing URLs in any of the following text boxes:

Default Intranet Extranet Internet Custom

5. Click Save.

Map to an external resourceYou can also define mappings for resources outside internal Web applications. To do so, you must supply a unique name, initial URL, and a zone for that URL. (The URL must be unique to the farm.)

1. On the Alternate Access Mappings page, click Map to External Resource.

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2. On the Create External Resource Mapping page, in the Resource Name box, type a unique name.

3. In the URL protocol, host and port box, type the initial URL.

4. Click Save.

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Create zones for Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services)If your solution architecture includes Web applications with more than one zone, use the guidance in this article to create additional zones.

Create a new zoneYou can create a new zone by extending an existing Web application. Follow the "Extend an existing Web application" procedure in Create or extend Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services) to create a new zone. The new zone is created when you select a zone in step 8 of the procedure and extend the Web application.

Refer to your planning architecture documents and worksheets to determine which zones you need to create and what authentication method should be associated with each zone.

You can change the authentication provider for a zone on the Authentication Providers page. For more information, see Plan authentication methods (Windows SharePoint Services).

View existing zonesOn the Alternate Access Mappings page, you can view the zones that have been created for your farm.

1. Click the Start button, point to All Programs, then point to Microsoft Office Server, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

2. On the Central Administration home page, click Operations.

3. On the Operations page, in the Global Configuration section, click Alternate access mappings.

On the Alternate Access Mappings page, each Web application is displayed with its associated zone.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Enumalternatedomains: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

See AlsoCreate or extend Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services)

Configure alternate access mapping (Windows SharePoint Services)

Plan authentication methods (Windows SharePoint Services)

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Create quota templates (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Create a new quota template

Edit an existing quota template

Delete a quota template

A quota template consists of storage limit values that specify how much data can be stored in a site collection and the storage size that triggers an e-mail alert to the site collection administrator when that size is reached. You can create a quota template that can be applied to any site collection in the farm.

Note When you apply a quota template to a site collection, the storage limit applies to the site collection as a whole. In other words, the storage limit applies to the sum of the content sizes for the top-level site and all subsites within the site collection.

You can also modify existing quota templates. When a quota template is modified, the new storage limits you defined in the template will apply to any site collection that uses that quota template. This allows you to modify storage limits for multiple site collections without having to change settings for each site collection individually.

Create a new quota templateCreate a new quota template


2. On the Central Administration home page, click Application Management.3. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click

Quota templates.

4. On the Quota Templates page, in the Template Name section, select Create a new quota template.

5. Type the name of the new template in the New template name box.

If you want to base your new template on an existing quota template, click the Template to start from down arrow and select the desired template from the drop-down menu.

6. In the Storage Limit Values section, set the values you want to apply to the template.

a. If you want to restrict the amount of data that can be stored, click the Limit site storage to a maximum of check box and type the storage limit in megabytes into the

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text box.

b. If you want an e-mail to be sent to the site collection administrator when a certain storage threshold is reached, click the Send warning E-mail when site storage reaches check box and type the threshold in megabytes into the text box.

7. Click OK to create the new quota template, or click Cancel to cancel the operation and return to the Application Management page.

Edit an existing quota templateEdit an existing quota template



Quota templates.

4. In the Template Name section, click the Template to modify down arrow and select the template you want to edit from the drop-down menu.

5. In the Storage Limit Values section, set the values you want to apply to the template.

a. If you want to restrict the amount of data that can be stored, click the Limit site storage to a maximum of check box and type the storage limit in megabytes into the text box.

b. If you want an e-mail to be sent to the site collection administrator when a certain storage threshold is reached, click the Send warning E-mail when site storage reaches check box and type the threshold in megabytes into the text box.

6. Click OK to modify the quota template, or click Cancel to cancel the operation and return to the Application Management page.

Delete a quota templateDelete a quota template



Quota templates.

4. In the Template Name section, click the Template to modify down arrow and select the template you want to delete from the drop-down menu.

5. Click the Delete button.

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6. Click OK on the dialog box that appears to delete the quota template.

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Create site collections (Windows SharePoint Services)When you create a site collection, you also create the top-level site within that site collection. Select the appropriate template for your scenario, such as: team site for a team collaboration Web site, or Blog for a blog site.


1. On the top navigation bar, click Application Management. 2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click

Create site collection.

3. On the Create Site Collection page, in the Web Application section, if the Web application in which you want to create the site collection is not selected, click Change Web Application on the Web Application menu, and then on the Select Web Application page, click the Web application in which you want to create the site collection.

4. In the Title and Description section, type the title and description for the site collection.

5. In the Web Site Address section, under URL, select the path to use for your URL (such as an included path like /sites/ or the root directory, /).

If you select a wildcard inclusion path, such as /sites/, you must also type the site name to use in your site's URL.

Note The paths available for the URL option are taken from the list of managed paths that have been defined as wildcard inclusions. For more information about managed paths, see Define managed paths in the Central Administration Help system.

6. In the Template Selection section, in the Select a template list, select the template that you want to use for the top-level site in the site collection.

7. In the Primary Site Collection Administrator section, enter the user name (in the form DOMAIN\username) for the user who will be the site collection administrator.

8. If you want to identify a user as the secondary owner of the new top-level Web site (recommended), in the Secondary Site Collection Administrator section, enter the user name for the secondary administrator of the site collection.

9. If you are using quotas to limit resource use for site collections, in the Quota Template section, click a template in the Select a quota template list.

10. Click OK.

For information about how to perform this procedure using the Stsadm command-line tool, see Createsite: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Prepare to crawl host-named sites that use Basic authenticationIn this article:

Solution prerequisites

High-level solution overview

Deploy the solution

When configuring a Web application to use host-named sites, Web hosters typically use Basic authentication for the default zone. The index component of the search server, sometimes called the crawler, cannot crawl host-named Web sites that are deployed in the usual way for the following reasons:

The crawler cannot authenticate using Basic authentication.

Host-named sites do not enable the index component of the search server to authenticate by using another zone in the polling order.

For more information about how polling order works with non-host-named sites, see the “Authentication requirements for crawling content” section in Plan authentication methods (Windows SharePoint Services).

This article describes how to create a solution in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 so the crawler can crawl your host-named sites. The components of the solution are to:

Create two zones for your Web application.

Direct requests from end-users to the default zone, which is configured for Basic authentication.

Direct requests from intranet users and the crawler directly to the Intranet zone, which you configure for NTLM authentication.

Solution prerequisitesThe procedures included in this solution require the following types of administrators:

Domain Name System (DNS) administrator

Server administrator

Farm administrator

Other requirements include:

Two DNS servers: one Internet-facing DNS server, and one intranet-facing DNS server.

Two static IP addresses: one from the Internet-facing DNS server, and a different static IP address from the intranet-facing DNS server. These two IP addresses must be associated with the same site name.

This solution assumes the following:

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A server administrator either configures separate network interface cards (NICs) on all front-end Web servers in the server farm with both static IP addresses or adds both static IP addresses to one NIC.

The search server that you will use for your Web application is running.

You do not have another Web application using port 80.

Note Although it is possible to implement this solution by using a different port (as long as both zones use the same port), port 80 is typically used so end-users do not see a port number in the URL of their host-named site.

High-level solution overviewThe following figure shows a high-level overview of this solution.

This solution requires two DNS servers. Each DNS server maps the same host name to a different static IP address. This is typically referred to as a split DNS environment. The Internet-facing DNS server resolves the URL of the host-named site to the default zone of your Web application. This is the zone end-users use to access the site using Basic authentication. The intranet-facing DNS server resolves this same URL to an IP address that is mapped to the Intranet zone of your Web application. This is the zone that intranet users and the crawler use to access the site using NTLM authentication.

This mapping is possible because when a new zone is created by extending the Web application, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 creates an Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site for that zone. A server administrator can use IIS Manager to map a static IP address directly to an IIS Web site, which is associated with a particular zone of a particular Web application.

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High-level stepsThe following list describes the high-level steps for this solution.

1. The farm administrator uses the Central Administration Web site to create a Web application on port 80 without a host header assigned to it.

2. The farm administrator configures the default zone of this Web application to use Basic authentication.

3. The farm administrator extends the Web application, specifies the host header name, and then specifies NTLM authentication on the intranet zone.

4. The DNS administrator maps the site name to the static IP addresses in DNS.

5. The server administrator uses IIS Manager to perform the following actions:

Map the static IP address from the Internet-facing DNS server to the IIS Web site that is associated with the default zone (that is, the zone that uses Basic authentication) of your Web application.

Map the static IP address from the intranet-facing DNS server to the IIS Web site associated with the Intranet zone (that is, the zone that uses NTLM authentication) of your Web application, and remove the IIS host header that was assigned to this site in step 3.

6. The server administrator creates a host header-based site collection by using the Stsadm command-line utility.

Note You must use the Stsadm command-line utility to specify the URL that you want for your host header-based site collection.

7. The farm administrator can grant permissions to the Web application and the site collection administrator can grant permissions to the site collection.

Deploy the solutionUse the following procedures in the order listed to deploy the solution described earlier in this article.

Create Web application


2. On the top link bar of the Central Administration home page, click Application Management.



5. On the Create New Web Application page, in the IIS Web Site section, configure the

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following settings for your new Web application.

a. Accept the default setting, Create a new IIS web site, and then type a name for the Web site in the Description box.

b. In the Port box, type 80.

c. Ensure that the Host Header box is blank.

6. In the Application Pool section, select Use existing application pool, or accept the default setting, Create new application pool. If you are creating a new application pool, specify the security account to use for the new application pool.

7. In the Search Server section, select the search server that you want to use to index this Web application from the Select Windows SharePoint Services search server list.

8. Click OK.

Perform the following procedure on all front-end Web servers in the server farm.

Restart IIS

1. Click Start and then click Run.

2. In the Run dialog box, in the Open box, type cmd, and then click OK.

3. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:

iisreset /noforce4. Close the command prompt window.

Perform the following procedure to configure the Web application to use Basic authentication.

Configure the default zone to use Basic authentication



3. On the Authentication Providers page, in the Zone column, click Default.4. In the IIS Authentication Settings section, select Basic authentication (password is

sent in clear text).5. Click Save.

Extend the Web applicationUse the following procedure to extend the Web application to create a new zone that uses NTLM authentication.

Extend the Web application

1. On the Central Administration home page, click Application Management.2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Web Application Management

section, click Create or extend Web application.

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4. On the Extend Web Application to Another IIS Web Site page, in the Web Application section, on the Web Application menu, click Change Web Application.

5. On the Select Web Application page, select the Web application you want to extend. This is the Web application you created earlier in this article.

6. In the IIS Web Site section, do the following:

a. In the Description box, type a description for the new site.


c. In the Host Header box, type a host header name.

7. In the Security Configuration section, ensure that NTLM is selected.

8. In the Load Balanced URL section, select the zone you want to use, (in this example, Intranet.)

Note The intranet-facing DNS server must be able to resolve this load-balanced URL to the static IP address that you assign to the Web site that you configure to use NTLM authentication.

9. Click OK.


Restart IIS



3. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:

iisreset /noforce4. Close the command prompt window.

Map site names to static IP addresses in DNSHost-named sites enable farm administrators to choose the name they want to use in the URL for their sites. Note that the name (that is, the URL) must be a unique name on the domain. The administrator for the Internet-facing DNS server must map the site name chosen by the farm administrator to the appropriate static IP address. In a later step, the server administrator maps this static IP address to the IIS Web site that is configured to use the default zone used by the Web application.

Likewise, the administrator for the intranet-facing DNS server must map this same site name to a different static IP address. In a later step, the server administrator will map this static IP address to the IIS Web site that is configured to use the Intranet zone used by the Web application. Additionally, this DNS administrator must also map the host header name that the farm

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administrator used when extending the Web application to this static IP address. Even though this host name is removed in a later procedure, this host name is used by the crawler to access the Web application on the Intranet zone.

The following procedure must be performed by a server administrator on each front-end Web server in the server farm.

Map the static IP addresses to the Web sites


2. In the console tree, expand the local computer node, expand Web Sites, right-click the Web site you configured for Basic authentication, and then click Properties.

3. In the Properties dialog box, on the Web Site tab, in the Web site identification section, in the IP address list, select the IP address that you want to map to the customer-facing Web site.


5. In the console tree, right-click the Web site you configured for NTLM authentication, and then click Properties.

6. In the Properties dialog box, on the Web Site tab, in the Web site identification section, click Advanced.

7. In the Advanced Web Site Identification dialog box, in the Multiple identities for this Web site section, select the row containing the host header name you configured for the Web site that is using NTLM authentication, and then click Edit.

8. In the Add/Edit Web Site Identification dialog box, select the IP address that you want to map to the Web site that is using NTLM authentication from the IP address list.

9. In the Host Header value box, make a note of the host header name. This is the host header name you assigned to the site that you configured for NTLM authentication. You will need to use this name in the next procedure.

10. In the Host Header value box, delete the host header name, and then click OK.

11. Click OK to close the Advanced Web Site Identification dialog box.


13. Close IIS Manager.

Use the following procedure to create a site collection for your Web application. You must be a server administrator to perform the following steps.

Create a site collection for the Web application



3. Browse to the following folder:

systemdrive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN

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where systemdrive is the drive on which Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is installed.

4. In the command window, type the following command, and then press ENTER:

stsadm.exe -o createsite -url http://<HostNamedSiteAddress> -ownerlogin <DomainName\UserName> -owneremail <[email protected]> -hostheaderwebapplicationurl http://<WebApplicationUrl>

The following table describes the variables used in step 4 of the previous procedure.

Variable Description

HostNamedSiteAddress URL chosen by the farm administrator for users to access the top-level site of the site collection. The DNS administrator maps this name to the IP address used to access the Default zone of your Web application.

DomainName\UserName Primary owner of the host header-based site collection.

[email protected] E-mail address of the site collection owner.

WebApplicationUrl URL of the default zone of the Web application. You can find this URL on the Web Application List page in Central Administration.

Grant user permissionsBefore users can access the sites on the Web application you have created, you must grant those users the appropriate permissions to your sites. If you want to manage security at the Web application level, a farm administrator can create a policy to grant permissions to the Web application. Alternatively, if you want to manage permissions at the site collection level and at lower levels, site collection administrators can add users to the appropriate SharePoint groups.

For information about using a policy to grant users permissions, see "Manage permissions through policy" in the Help system. For more information about managing permissions at the site collection and lower levels, see Chapter overview: Plan site and content security (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Prepare to crawl host-named sites that use forms authenticationIn this article:

Solution prerequisites

High-level solution overview

Deploy the solution

When configuring a Web application to use host-named sites, Web hosters typically use forms authentication for the default zone. The index component of the search server, sometimes called the crawler, cannot crawl host-named Web sites that are deployed in the usual way for the following reasons:

The crawler cannot authenticate using forms authentication.

Host-named sites do not enable the index component of the search server to authenticate by using another zone in the polling order.

For more information about how polling order works with non-host-named sites, see the “Authentication requirements for crawling content” section in Plan authentication methods (Windows SharePoint Services).

This article describes how to create a solution in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 so the crawler can crawl your host-named sites. The components of the solution are to:

Create two zones for your Web application.

Direct requests from end-users to the default zone, which is configured for forms authentication.

Direct requests from intranet users and the crawler directly to the Intranet zone, which you configure for NTLM authentication.

Solution prerequisitesThe procedures included in this solution require the following types of administrators:

Domain Name System (DNS) administrator

Server administrator

Farm administrator

Other requirements include:

Two DNS servers: one Internet-facing DNS server and one intranet-facing DNS server.

Two static IP addresses: one from the Internet-facing DNS server and a different static IP address from the intranet-facing DNS server. These two IP addresses must be associated with the same site name.

This solution assumes the following:

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A server administrator will either configure separate network interface cards (NICs) on all front-end Web servers in the server farm with both static IP addresses or will add both static IP addresses to one NIC.

The search server that you will use for your Web application is running.

You do not have another Web application using port 80.

Note Although it is possible to implement this solution by using a different port (as long as both zones use the same port), port 80 is typically used so end-users don’t see a port number in the URL of their host-named site.

You have already implemented forms authentication in your environment. Note that forms authentication can be implemented using several different authentication providers. The authentication provider you use with your implementation of forms authentication determines where user accounts are stored.

High-level solution overviewThe following figure shows a high-level overview of this solution.

This solution requires two DNS servers. Each DNS server maps the same host name to a different static IP address. This is typically referred to as a split DNS environment. The Internet-facing DNS server resolves the URL of the host-named site to the default zone of your Web application. This is the zone end-users use to access the site using forms authentication. The intranet-facing DNS server resolves this same URL to an IP address that is mapped to the Intranet zone of your Web application. This is the zone intranet users and the crawler use to access the site using NTLM authentication.

This mapping is possible because when a new zone is created by extending the Web application, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 creates an Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site for that

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zone. A server administrator can use IIS Manager to map a static IP address directly to an IIS Web site, which is associated with a particular zone of a particular Web application.

High-level stepsThe following list describes the high-level steps for this solution.

1. The farm administrator uses the Central Administration Web site to create a Web application on port 80 without a host header assigned to it.

2. The farm administrator configures the default zone of this Web application to use forms authentication.

3. The server administrator adds a custom XML element to the appropriate Web.config files to specify the name of the authentication provider used with forms authentication.

4. The server administrator creates a file named stsadm.exe.config to enable the Stsadm command-line utility to determine how to find the authentication provider you want to use with forms authentication.

5. The farm administrator extends the Web application, specifies the host header name, and then specifies NTLM authentication on the Intranet zone.

6. The DNS administrator maps the site name to the static IP addresses in DNS.

7. The server administrator uses IIS Manager to do the following:

Map the static IP address from the Internet-facing DNS server to the IIS Web site associated with the default zone (that is, the zone using forms authentication) of your Web application.

Map the static IP address from the intranet-facing DNS server to the IIS Web site associated with the Intranet zone (that is, the zone using NTLM authentication) of your Web application and removes the IIS host header that was assigned to this site in step 5.

8. The server administrator creates a host header-based site collection by using the Stsadm command-line utility.

Note You must use the Stsadm command-line utility to specify the URL you want for your host header-based site collection.

9. The farm administrator can grant permissions to the Web application and the site collection administrator can grant permissions to the site collection.

Deploy the solutionUse the following procedures in the order listed to deploy the solution described earlier in this article.

Create a Web application


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2. On the top link bar of the Central Administration home page, click Application Management.



5. On the Create New Web Application page, in the IIS Web Site section, configure the following settings for your new Web application.

a. Accept the default setting, Create a new IIS web site, and then type a name for the Web site in the Description box.


c. Ensure that the Host Header box is blank.

6. In the Application Pool section, select Use existing application pool, or accept the default setting, Create new application pool. If you are creating a new application pool, specify the security account to use for the new application pool.

7. In the Search Server section, select the search server that you want to use to index this Web application from the Select Windows SharePoint Services search server list.

8. Click OK.


Restart IIS



3. In the command window, type the following command, and then press ENTER:iisreset /noforce

4. Close the command prompt window.

Perform the following procedure to configure the Web application to use forms authentication.

Configure the default zone to use forms authentication



3. On the Authentication Providers page, in the Zone column, click Default.4. On the Edit Authentication page, in the Authentication Type section, select Forms.

5. In the Membership Provider Name section, in the Membership provider name box, type the name of your membership provider.

6. Optionally, in the Role Manager Name section, in the Role manager name box, type the name of your role manager.

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7. Click Save.

Add configuration settings to the applicable Web.config filesThe server administrator must add an XML element to the Web.config file for the default zone of the Web application created earlier in this article and to the Web.config file for the Central Administration site. This XML element must specify the name of the authentication provider and optionally other information about the authentication provider your organization uses with forms authentication.

Note that the contents of this XML element (and even the name of the element itself) will differ from one organization to another. For more information about constructing this required XML element, see Authentication samples (Windows SharePoint Services).

After you have constructed the required XML element, you must add it to the appropriate Web.config files on the appropriate servers in your server farm. On each server in the farm running the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application service, add the required XML element to the Web.config file of the IIS Web site associated with the default zone for your Web application. On each server in your server farm running the Central Administration service, add the required XML element to the Web.config file of the Central Administration site.

Note Farm administrators can use the Services on Server page in Central Administration to determine which servers are running these services.

Add the custom XML element to servers running the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application service

1. Log on to a server in your server farm that is running the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application service.

2. Click Start, and then click Run. In the Run dialog box, type inetmgr, and then click OK.

3. In IIS Manager, in the console tree, expand the local computer node, and then expand Web Sites.

4. Right-click the Web site associated with the default zone of the Web application you created earlier, and then click Explore.

5. In the Name column, right-click web.config, select Open, and then open the file using an ASCII text editor, such as Notepad.

6. Insert your custom XML element named <connectionStrings> immediately after the </configSections> element.

7. If you are inserting the optional <membership> or <roleManager> elements, you must insert them inside the <system.web> element.

8. Save and close the Web.config file.

9. Repeat steps 1 through 7 on any additional server in your farm running the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application service.

You must be a member of the Administrators group to perform the following procedure.

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Add the custom XML element to servers running the Central Administration service

1. Log on to a server in your server farm that is running the Central Administration service.

2. Click Start, and then click Run. In the Run dialog box, type inetmgr, and then click OK.

3. In IIS Manager, in the console tree, expand the local computer node, and then expand Web Sites.

4. Right-click the Central administration Web site, and then click Explore. This site is named SharePoint Central Administration v3, by default.

5. In the Name column, right-click web.config, click Open, and then open the file using an ASCII text editor, such as Notepad.

6. Insert your custom XML element named <connectionStrings> immediately after the </configSections> element.

7. If you are using custom <membership> or <roleManager> elements, you must insert them inside the <system.web> element.

8. Save and close the Web.config file.

9. Repeat steps 1 through 7 on any additional server in your farm running the Central Administration service.

Use the following procedure to create a file named stsadm.exe.config. This file must contain the same XML element that you added to the Web.config files. This file enables the Stsadm command-line utility to determine how to find the authentication provider you want to use.

Create the stsadm.exe.config file

1. Open an ASCII text editor, such as Notepad, and add the following text:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <configuration> <system.web> </system.web> </configuration>

2. Insert the same custom XML element named <connectionStrings> that you added to your Web.config files in the preceding step after the <configuration> tag.

3. If you are using custom <membership> or <roleManager> elements, you must insert them inside the <system.web> element.

4. Save the file and name it stsadm.exe.config.

5. You must ensure that the text editor you are using does not add the .txt extension to the filename. If this occurs, remove the .txt extension before proceeding to the next step.

6. Copy the stsadm.exe.config file to the following folder on each server in the farm from which a farm administrator might use the stsadm.exe utility:


We recommend that you copy this file to each server in the server farm.

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Extend the Web applicationUse the following procedure to extend the Web application to create a new zone that uses NTLM authentication.

Extend the Web application

1. On the Central Administration home page, click Application Management.2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Web Application Management

section, click Create or extend Web application.


4. On the Extend Web Application to Another IIS Web Site page, in the Web Application section, on the Web Application menu, click Change Web Application.

5. On the Select Web Application page, select the Web application you want to extend from list.

6. In the IIS Web Site section, do the following:

a. In the Description box, type a description for the new site.


c. In the Host Header box, type a host header name.

7. In the Security Configuration section, ensure that NTLM is selected.

8. In the Load Balanced URL section, select the zone you want to use (in this example, Intranet.)

Note The intranet-facing DNS server must be able to resolve this load-balanced URL to the static IP address that you assign to the Web site that you configure to use NTLM authentication.

9. Click OK.


Restart IIS

1. Click Start, and then click Run.


3. At the command prompt, type the following and then press ENTER.

iisreset /noforce 4. Close the command prompt window.

Map site names to static IP addresses in DNSHost-named sites enable farm administrators to choose the name they want to use in the URL for their sites. Note that the name (that is, the URL) must be a unique name on the domain. The

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administrator for the Internet-facing DNS must map the site name chosen by the farm administrator to the appropriate static IP address. In a later step, the server administrator maps this static IP address to the IIS Web site that is configured to use the default zone used by the Web application.

Likewise, the administrator for the intranet-facing DNS must map this same site name to a different static IP address. In a later step, the server administrator will map this static IP address to the IIS Web site that is configured to use the Intranet zone used by the Web application. Additionally, this DNS administrator must also map the host header name that the farm administrator used when extending the Web application to this static IP address. Even though this host name is removed in a later procedure, this host name is used by the crawler to access the Web application on the Intranet zone.

The following procedure must be done by a server administrator on each front-end Web server in the server farm.

Map the static IP addresses to the Web sites


2. In the console tree, expand the local computer node, expand Web Sites, right-click the Web site you configured for forms authentication and then click Properties.

3. In the Properties dialog box, on the Web Site tab, in the Web site identification section, select the IP address that you want to map to the customer-facing Web site from the IP address list.


5. In the console tree, right-click the Web site you configured for NTLM authentication and then click Properties.

6. In the Properties dialog box, on the Web Site tab, in the Web site identification section, click Advanced.

7. In the Advanced Web Site Identification dialog box, in the Multiple identities for this Web site section, select the row containing the host header name you configured for the Web site that is using NTLM authentication and then click Edit.

8. In the Add/Edit Web Site Identification dialog box, select the IP address you want to map to the Web site that is using NTLM authentication from the IP address list.

9. In the Host Header value box, make a note of the host header name. This is the host header name you assigned to the site that you configured for NTLM authentication. You will need to use this name in the next procedure.

10. In the Host Header value box, delete the host header name and then click OK.

11. Click OK to close the Advanced Web Site Identification dialog box.


13. Close IIS Manager.

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Use the following procedure to create a site collection for your Web application. You must be a server administrator to perform the following steps.

Create a site collection for the Web application



3. Browse to the following folder:


where systemdrive is the drive on which Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is installed.

4. In the command window, type the following command, and then press ENTER:

stsadm.exe -o createsite -url http://<HostNamedSiteAddress> -ownerlogin <ProviderName:UserName> -owneremail <[email protected]> -hostheaderwebapplicationurl http://<WebApplicationUrl>

The following table describes the variables used in step 4 of the previous procedure.

Variable Description

HostNamedSiteAddress URL chosen by the farm administrator for users to access the top-level site of the site collection. The DNS administrator maps this name to the IP address used to access the Default zone of your Web application.

ProviderName:UserName Primary owner of the host header based site collection.

[email protected] E-mail address of the site collection owner.

WebApplicationUrl URL on the default zone of the Web application. You can find this address on the Web Application List page in Central Administration.

Grant user permissionsBefore users can access the sites on the Web application you have created, you must grant those users the appropriate permissions to your sites. If you want to manage security at the Web application level, a farm administrator can create a policy to grant permissions to the Web application. Alternatively, if you want to manage permissions at the site collection level and at lower levels, site collection administrators can add users to the appropriate SharePoint groups.

For information about using a policy to grant users permissions, see "Manage permissions through policy" in the Help system. For more information about managing permissions at the site collection and lower levels, see Chapter overview: Plan site and content security (Windows SharePoint Services).

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Add site content (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Use Web site designers to design and add content

Migrate content from another site

Allow users to add content directly

There are several methods that you can use to add content to sites, including:

Using Web site designers to design and add content.

Migrating content from another site.

Allowing users to add content directly.

Depending on your scenario, you may find particular methods more appropriate.

Use Web site designers to design and add content when you are working with:

A public-facing Internet site

A large intranet site

Migrate content from another site when you are working with:

A site or set of sites that is being reorganized.

Allow users to add content directly when you are working with:

A collaboration site in which the site owner can create the lists and libraries that are needed, and then grant site members access so that they can begin contributing content.

A blog site in which the blog owner can set up the structure for the blog, and then start creating posts.

A wiki site in which the wiki site owner can grant access to users and the users can start creating topics in the wiki.

Use Web site designers to design and add contentWhen you create a public-facing site or a larger intranet site, Web site owners and designers must plan and implement many elements, such as site navigation, site design (master pages plus .css files), and the overall information architecture for the site. For more information about planning for these elements, see Planning and architecture for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology.

Follow the steps in Enable access for end users (Windows SharePoint Services) to give Web site designers permissions to the site. When they have completed their work, you can then optionally grant access to authors to contribute content before you grant access to the other users in your organization or before you make the site available to the public on the Internet.

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Migrate content from another siteIf you are reorganizing an existing site and need to migrate content to a different site collection, you can use several methods to migrate the content. You can use:

The Export and Import operations for the Stsadm command-line tool to migrate site collections or subsites.

For more information about using Stsadm operations, see the following resources:

Export: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services)

Import: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services)

The Content Migration object model to programmatically move content at any level in the site (Web site, list, library, folder, file, or list item).

For more information about using the Content Migration object model, see "Content Migration Overview" in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Software Development Kit (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86999&clcid=0x409).

Allow users to add content directlyIf you want your site owners to begin adding content directly to a site, you can immediately grant them access and allow them to control the site's organization and design.

Follow the steps in Enable access for end users (Windows SharePoint Services) to give your end users permissions to the site. After you grant permissions, users can begin adding content. For more information about adding content to sites, see the Help system for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

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Enable access for end users (Windows SharePoint Services)In this article:

Add site collection administrators

Add site owners or other users

After you create your site collection and populate it with content, you are ready to grant access to end users. This article helps you configure administrative and user permissions for a site collection. Note that you can also configure permissions for the following securable objects within a site collection: site, list, library, folder, document, or item. For more information about assigning permissions for different securable objects within a site collection, see Plan site security (Windows SharePoint Services).

In most cases, these actions are not performed by farm administrators, but are performed by site collection administrators or site owners. Moreover, these steps are performed in the site collection itself, not in Central Administration. (However, you can add site collection administrators by using Central Administration and by using the Site Settings page in the site collection.) Nonetheless, this information is presented in the Deployment Guide because it is truly the final stage of deployment — the stage when the site collection is made available for end users.

This article does not cover how to enable anonymous access. When you create a Web application, you decide whether to allow anonymous access for site collections on that Web application. For more information about anonymous access, see the following resources:

Chapter overview: Plan environment-specific security (Windows SharePoint Services)

Plan authentication settings for Web applications (Windows SharePoint Services)

Choose which security groups to use (Windows SharePoint Services)

"Enable anonymous access" in the Central Administration Help system.

Add site collection administratorsWhen you created the site collection, you were required to supply the user name for at least one site collection administrator. If the user name you supplied was not that for the actual administrator for the site collection — for example, if you did not know who was going to be actual administrator and you used your own user name — or if you need to change or add a user name for a site collection administrator, you can do so by using the following procedure.

Note This procedure uses the Central Administration Web site, but you can also add a site collection administrator from the top-level site in the site collection by using the Site Settings page for the top-level site. On the Site Settings page, in the Users and Permissions section, click Site collection administrators.

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Add a site collection administrator

1. In Central Administration, on the top link bar, click Application Management. 2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click

Site collection administrators.

3. If the selected site is not the site for which you want to manage administrators, on the Site Collection Administrators page, on the Site Collection menu in the Site Collection section, click Change Site Collection.

In the Select Site Collection dialog box, select the site for which you want to manage administrators.

Click OK.

4. In either the Primary site collection administrator box or the Secondary site collection administrator box, enter the user name of the user to whom you want to assign that role.

5. Click OK.

Add site owners or other usersIf you have not yet set up any groups for this site or site collection, you must set up groups before you can add any users to groups. (You can also add users individually, without setting up groups, but if you want to manage users efficiently, we recommend that you use groups.) To specify which group to assign to site visitors, site members, site owners, or other groups, use the following procedure. This procedure helps you set up the default groups, but you can also create additional groups.

Note The SiteName Owners group has the Full Control permission level on the site, so you can add users to that group to give them administrative access for that site. For more information about groups and permission levels, see Determine permission levels and groups to use (Windows SharePoint Services).

Set up Members, Visitors, and Owners groups for a site

1. On the site home page, on the Site Actions menu, click Site Settings.

2. On the Site Settings page, click People And Groups.

3. On the People and Groups page, on the Quick Launch, click Groups.

4. On the People and Groups: All Groups page, on the Settings menu, click Set Up Groups.

5. On the Set Up Groups for this Site page, select a group for each set of users that you want to change. Alternatively, select Create a new group to assign a custom group to a set of users.

After you have configured groups for the site, you can add users and grant them permissions by using the following procedure.

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Add users to groups

1. On the site home page, on the Site Actions menu, click Site Settings.

2. On the Site Settings page, click People And Groups.

3. On the People and Groups page, on the Quick Launch, click Groups.

4. Click the name of the group to which you want to add users.

5. On the People and Groups: Group name page, on the New menu, click Add Users.

6. On the Add Users page, type the account names that you want to add, or browse to find users from Active Directory directory service.

7. In the Give Permission section, be sure that Add users to a SharePoint group is selected and that the correct group is displayed.

Note In rare cases, you might want to give individual permissions to a user by clicking Give users permission directly. However, assigning individual permissions to many users can quickly become difficult and time-consuming to manage. We recommend that you use groups as much as possible to efficiently manage site access.

8. Click OK.

For more information about managing users and groups, see "Manage SharePoint groups" in the Help system for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

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III. Install application templates

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Installing application templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0Microsoft has created 40 application templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that are available for download at the SharePoint Products and Technologies Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=85166&clcid=0x409).

Application templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are separated into two groups, site admin templates and server admin templates.

Site admin templates are custom templates that are easy for any SharePoint site administrator to install into the template gallery.

Server admin templates were created as site definitions, enabling tighter integration and enhanced functionality with the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 platform. They require administrator permissions on the server to install.

Site Admin TemplatesNote To install or remove a site admin template, you must be a member of the Owners SharePoint group (or another SharePoint group with Full Control permissions) on the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.

Install a template

1. Download the template you want to install to your computer.

2. Double-click the .exe file to extract the files.

3. Log on to the SharePoint site as a member of the Owners group.

4. On the Site Actions menu, click Site Settings.

5. In the Galleries section, click Site templates.

If you don’t see Site templates in the Galleries section, you might not be at a top-level site. In the Site Collection Administration section, click Go to top-level site administration.

6. Click Upload to save an application template to this SharePoint site.

If you want to save more than one application template, click Upload Multiple Files.

7. Browse to the <template_name>.stp file, and then click Open.

8. Click OK.

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3. In the Site Administration section, click Sites and workspaces.

4. Click Create.

5. On the New SharePoint Site page, fill in the information about your new site.

6. In the Template Selection section, click the Custom tab.

Any site admin application templates that have been uploaded will be listed here.

7. Click the template to use for the new site, and then click Create.

The following procedure will not remove any sites that were already created by using the template. It will only prevent users from creating new sites based on the template.

Remove a template

1. Log on to the top-level SharePoint site as a member of the Owners group.


3. In the Galleries section, click Site templates.

4. In the list of site templates, find the application template to remove, and then click Edit.5. Confirm that this is the application template to remove, and then click Delete Item.

6. Click OK to confirm the deletion.

The application template is now unavailable to SharePoint sites and it has been removed from the SharePoint site template gallery.

Server Admin TemplatesNote To install or remove a server admin template, you must be a member of the Owners SharePoint group (or another group with Full Control permissions) on the SharePoint site and be a member of the Administrators group on the server running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Install and remove server admin templates by using the Stsadm command-line tool at %PROGRAMFILES%\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\bin.

Before installing a server admin template, you must first install the Application Template Core solution (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=85162&clcid=0x409). If you have already installed this solution, skip to "Install a template."

Install the Application Template Core solution

1. Download the Application Template Core solution to the server.


3. Open a Command Prompt window.

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Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.4. Type stsadm -o addsolution -filename <file_path>\ApplicationTemplateCore.wsp,

where <file_path> is the location you extracted the Application Template Core files to, and then press ENTER.

5. Type stsadm -o deploysolution -name ApplicationTemplateCore.wsp -allowgacdeployment, and then press ENTER.

Note Additional attributes may be required based on your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 configuration. For more information about available attributes, type stsadm -help deploysolution, and then press ENTER.

1. Type stsadm -o copyappbincontent, and then press ENTER.

Install a template

1. Download the template you want to install to the server.


3. At the command prompt, type stsadm -o addsolution -filename <file_path>\<template_name>.wsp, where <file_path> is the location you extracted the template files to and <template_name>.wsp is the .wsp file for your template, and then press ENTER.

4. Type stsadm -o deploysolution -name <template_name>.wsp -allowgacdeployment, and then press ENTER.

Note Additional attributes may be required based on your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 configuration. For more information about available attributes, type stsadm -help deploysolution, and then press ENTER.

5. To check the deployment status, open the Central Administration site for the server.

6. Click the Operations tab, and then, in the Global Configuration section, click Solution management, and then check the status of your solutions.

7. After all the solutions are marked Globally Deployed, from the command line, run iisreset.

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3. In the Site Administration section, click Sites and workspaces.

4. Click Create.

5. On the New SharePoint Site page, fill in the information about your new site.

6. In the Template Selection section, click the Application Templates tab.

Any server admin application templates that have been uploaded will be listed here.

7. Click the template to use for the new site, and then click Create.

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The following procedure will not remove any sites that were already created by using the template. It will only prevent users from creating new sites based on the template. The Application Template Core solution must remain installed and deployed for other server admin templates to be installed.

Remove a template

1. Log on to the server running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 as a member of the Administrators group on the server.

2. Do one or both of the following:

To remove a solution from the list of templates for new sites, at the command prompt, type stsadm -o retractsolution -name <template_name>.wsp, and then press ENTER.

Note Additional attributes may be required based on your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 configuration. For more information about available attributes, type stsadm -help retractsolution, and then press ENTER.

To remove a solution from the server, at the command prompt, type stsadm -o deletesolution -name <template_name>.wsp, and then press ENTER.

Note Additional attributes may be required based on your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 configuration. For more information about available attributes, type stsadm -help deletesolution, and then press ENTER.

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Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0In this article:

Before you begin

Overview of installation sequence

Perform installation steps

Verify installation

Add new servers to a server farm

Update language template packs

Known issues

We recommend that you follow the process and procedures in this topic for most deployment scenarios, from stand-alone server deployments to very large server farms. The typical process for installing software updates consists of copying the files to a computer and then running either the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard or the Psconfig command-line tool to upgrade the databases.

Note In this article, we use the term software update as a general term for all update types, including any service pack, update, update rollup, feature pack, critical update, security update, or hotfix used to improve or fix this software product.

If you chose Basic installation (single server with Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine) when you installed your Web server running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you do not need to follow the process and procedures in this topic. In this case, if you have Automatic Updates enabled, your computers are updated automatically. If you do not have Automatic Updates enabled, you can use the Windows Update Web site to install the software updates. After the software update is installed, the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard runs automatically to update the databases for SharePoint Products and Technologies. In this scenario, the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard will not prompt for user input or display any notifications.

For any deployment other than single server, such as Web servers in a server farm, you must visit the Microsoft download center to download and then install the software update. The software update will not be installed automatically, even if Automatic Updates is enabled on your Web servers, and you cannot use the Windows Update Web site to initiate the software update installation.

The software update checks the registry and blocks automatic installation on any Web server that does not contain the value singleserver in the SERVERROLE key.

If you need to determine whether to manually download and install the software update, use a registry editor to verify the value in the following key:

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HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web server extensions\12.0\WSS\SERVERROLEIn server farm deployments, you must update all the Web servers running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to the same software update version. If the software update versions are not the same on all of the Web servers running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in your server farm, when users request resources from a Web server that does not have the software update installed, they receive a Page cannot be found (404) error. If you attempt to install the software update and the installation fails, all user requests to the Web servers with a failed software update installation will return the error: Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=96177. Once the software update installation is successful, the Web server displays content as expected.

Before you beginThis section provides an overview of what you must do before you install a software update.

You must remove the Web servers running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from service for the duration of the software update installation. We recommend that you schedule the installation of the software update for a time that causes the least amount of disruption for your users. You should communicate the proposed schedule to the users and the key people involved with the Web sites hosted on the Web servers running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and, if necessary, adjust the schedule.

If you are installing on Web servers running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a server farm, after the software update is installed on the first Web server in the server farm, the file versions on that Web server and the databases in that server farm are different from the file versions on the other Web servers. This mismatch prevents the server farm from working correctly, and even valid requests result in errors. When the software update has been installed on all of the Web servers in the server farm, results are returned to users as expected.

When you first installed Windows SharePoint Services on the Web servers in your server farm, if you used an upgrade method—either in-place or gradual—and upgrade jobs are still in progress, the software update installation might fail. To ensure that none of the upgrade processes are running, you must view the Timer Job Status page on the SharePoint Central Administration Web site. If you see any upgrade jobs listed, you must allow the upgrade to finish before you install the software update.

The upgrade jobs that appear on the Timer Job Status page result from the following operations:

Sites that are in the process of being upgraded.

You selected the in-place upgrade option in the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

After you have verified that no upgrade items are listed on the Timer Job Status page, you can continue installing the software update.

Pre-upgrade preparationBefore you install a software update, we recommend the following:

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If there are orphaned objects in the content databases—orphans are items that do not have any parent or child relationships—the software update installation will fail. To make sure that the installation can succeed, you must either fix the relationship or drop the orphans before you begin the software update installation. For more information about a resolution for when the content database contains one or more orphaned objects, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article titled Error message when you try to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Upgrade has encountered one or more lists that were not updated by Prescan.exe and must exit" (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105755).

If you customized a predefined site template by directly modifying the site template files—something we do not recommend doing—the software update installation may overwrite some of the files that you modified, and your customizations in those files will be lost. You must reapply any site-template customizations after you install the software update.

Stop the World Wide Web publishing service (W3SVC) on all front-end Web servers to disconnect all the users from the server farm. In server farms with multiple front-end Web servers, if you allow users to connect after the files and databases have been updated on one Web server, and the other Web servers have not been updated, users will not be able to browse the Web sites.

Note If you manually stop the World Wide Web Publishing service, you must manually start it at the end of the installation.

Before you start the backup you should clean up your environment by performing the following steps.

Defragment all of the SQL Server database indexes. For more information, see How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=102795&clcid=0x409).

Make sure that there is adequate hard drive space in your database files volumes, tempdb volumes, and Windows temporary folder on the servers running SQL Server, front-end Web servers, and application servers. The upgrade operation writes the progress of various steps into an upgrade log that can take up disk space, but if you plan for extra storage you should not encounter issues due to space limitations.

If any of your databases contain more than the number of site collections recommended in the Information Architecture Recommendations of the download White paper: Performance recommendations for storage planning and monitoring (Windows SharePoint Services), you should load-balance your site collections across multiple databases.

Follow the best practices for content database sizing before you perform any upgrade operations.

Make sure that you follow the recommendations concerning SQL Server page-fill factor and other storage planning best practices before you begin the upgrade. For more information about storage best practices, see Performance recommendations for storage planning and monitoring (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105890&clcid=0x409)

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Back up the server farm before you start the software update installation. You should create a backup of search and all databases. We recommend that you follow these guidelines:

Configuration database and Central Administration content database: Perform a full backup operation with either Stsadm or SQL Server. If you are using SQL Server, use the simple recovery model, so that your transaction log is truncated. For more information, see Move all databases (Windows SharePoint Services).

Content databases: Perform a full backup operation with either Stsadm or SQL Server to back up all content databases. If you are using SQL Server, use the simple recovery model, so that your transaction log is truncated.

Single sign-on (SSO) database: Perform a full backup operation with SQL Server to back up the SSO database. If you are using SQL Server, use the simple recovery model, so that your transaction log is truncated.

Front-end Web server: If you have customized the front-end Web server, or are unsure of the extent of the customizations to your Web applications, we recommend that you make a backup image of your front-end Web server. Make sure you have a backup of any solution packages that you have deployed on your front-end Web servers.

Note Ideally, if you are customizing front-end Web computers, the customization should be managed using a robust build process or script that allows the customizations to be applied to a new computer.

If you experience an unrecoverable failure during upgrade, you may have to restore your server from the backup image you created. You would need to manually apply any customizations to your front-end Web server.

Note We recommend that you back up the server farm after you have verified that the software update installation succeeded.

After you have backed up all of your databases, use the SQL Server DBCC shrinkfile command to free unused log space, making the logs as empty as possible. For more information, see Shrinking the Transaction Log (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105233). It is a best practice to verify that you can restore the databases.

For more information about how to perform backups, see Prepare to back up Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology.

In server farms that have a large number of sites, you will find that installing a software update with the content databases attached is not practical in terms of downtime. In order to minimize the downtime, we recommend that you perform the additional step of detaching the content databases.

To deploy software updates in a server farm you must be logged in to the Web server as a domain account that also has the following permissions:

Member of the Administrators group on the Web server computer.

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Member of the Administrators group on the server running SQL Server or be granted the fixed database role db_owner to all SharePoint Products and Technologies databases.

If you have previously installed a hotfix, and the problem that it addresses is not fixed in this widely available software update, you must obtain the updated version of that hotfix to address specific issues in your environment by contacting Microsoft Customer Support Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=99201).

For more information about the software updates in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 942388 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105672&clcid=0x409).

For more information about the software updates in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Post Service Pack 1 rollup, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 941422 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102044&clcid=0x409).

Note All Web servers running Windows SharePoint Services in the server farm must be running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

You must download the correct software update file for your hardware and language. The pattern for the software update naming convention is productnamerrr-kby-xnn-fullfile-lang.exe, where:

productname is a short identifier for the name of the released product.

rrr is a description of the release. For example, Service Pack 1 would be sp1.

y is a number that corresponds to the Knowledge Base article about the software update.

nn is a number indicating the hardware architecture, either x86 or x64.

lang is the language of the software update. For example, U.S. English is en-us.

For example, the file name for the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) file, in U.S. English and for x86-based hardware, is wssv3sp1-kb936988-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe.

For more information, and to download the appropriate file, see Download details: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91024&clcid=0x409).

Overview of installation sequenceThe following approach updates the database from one server that hosts the Central Administration Web site, so that when you run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on the subsequent front-end Web servers, the front-end servers can simply connect to the updated database, rather than attempt to upgrade the database.

Note This installation sequence ensures that you can avoid database locking issues.

You must update the Web servers in your server farm in the following order:

1. The files from the software update must be installed on all the Web servers in the server farm by running the software update installation on each Web server up to the point where the dialog box with the following message is displayed:

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You must run Setup to install new binary files for every server in your server farm. If you have multiple servers in your server farm, run Setup and the configuration wizard on the other servers now, and then return to this server and click OK to continue.

Note If you started the installation in silent mode, using the /q switch, the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard does not automatically start. To continue the upgrade, you need to force the upgrade by either manually starting the wizard or running the psconfig command with arguments to force an in-place, build-to-build upgrade. For specific information, in the Perform installation steps section, follow the "To force a software update" procedure.

2. Complete the software update by clicking OK in the dialog box on one Web server that hosts the Central Administration Web site (front-end Web server) for the server farm.

3. Complete the software update, one Web server at a time, for the rest of the server farm.

Perform installation stepsImportant Make sure you are aware of the prerequisites, as outlined earlier in this document, before you follow the procedures in this section.

You must install the software update on each Web server running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to the point that the files are copied to all Web servers in the server farm. You should return to one Web server to complete the installation. After the installation has been completed on the Web server that you selected, you can complete the installation on each of the other Web servers.

To ensure that you have the correct permissions to install the software update and run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, we recommend that you add the account for the SharePoint Central Administration v3 application pool identity to the Administrators group on each of the local Web servers and application servers and then log on by using that account. These changes are only required for installing the update and then running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to complete the upgrade.

If you use a different account to install the software update, it must be a domain account with the following memberships, roles, and authorization:

Member of the Administrators group on the Web server computer.

Granted the fixed database role db_owner to all SharePoint Products and Technologies databases.

In many IT environments, database administrators (DBAs) create and manage databases. Security policies and other policies in your organization might require that DBAs create the databases needed by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Note For information about how to deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in an environment in which DBAs create and manage databases, see Deploy using DBA-created databases

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(Windows SharePoint Services) (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=86818&clcid=0x409).

You can install the software update by logging on to the server directly or by connecting through a Terminal Services console session.

Note For information about how to use console sessions, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 278845: How to Connect to and Shadow the Console Session with Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=98317).

Install the software updateThis section includes all of the procedures required to install a software update successfully in any size server farm. If you are in a large server farm, you should read the "Large-farm optimization" section later in this document.

The following procedure provides the steps to:

Make all software update files available on all servers in your server farm.

Complete the update on one front-end Web server.

Finish updating the remaining servers in the server farm.

Note You must perform steps 1 though 6 from the following procedure on every Web server in the server farm before you complete the installation on any one Web server.

To install a software update

1. Disconnect users from the server farm by stopping the World Wide Web Publishing service (W3SVC) on all Web servers.

2. Download and install the appropriate Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 software update for all servers in your server farm.

3. At the end of the software update installation, the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard starts.

Note If the wizard does not start automatically, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

4. On the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard Welcome page, click Next.

5. In the dialog box that notifies you that some services might need to be restarted during configuration, click Yes.


7. When the dialog box about installation in a server farm appears, do not click OK. Instead,

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leave each server with the following dialog box displayed:

You must run Setup to install new binary files for every server in your server farm. If you have multiple servers in your server farm, run Setup and the configuration wizard on the other servers now, and then return to this server and click OK to continue.

8. When the dialog box from the previous step is displayed on all Web servers in the server farm, use one Web server that hosts the Central Administration Web site to finalize the installation.

9. On the server you selected in the previous step, click OK.


11. After you have finished updating one Web server that hosts the Central Administration Web site, you should follow the procedures in the "Verify installation" section on this one Web server to ensure that the software update installation was successful.

12. Continue updating the remaining computers in the server farm, one at a time, by clicking OK in the dialog box.

Note It is important that the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard perform the configuration procedures on only one computer at a time.

13. When the software update installation and configuration is complete on all the Web servers in the server farm, make the Web servers available to users by manually starting the World Wide Web Publishing service on each server on which you manually stopped the service.

If you completed the "To detach content databases" procedure, depending on if you configured additional computers to upgrade the content databases, you must use one of the following procedures to attach the content database after the software update installation is complete.

Note If you did not follow the "To detach content databases" procedure, you can skip the "To attach the content database" procedures.

If you did not configure additional computers specifically to upgrade the content databases, you will need to follow the "To attach the content database from the command line" procedure. This procedure attaches and initiates an upgrade of the content database.

To attach the content database from the command line

To attach the database, enter the following command:

stsadm -o addcontentdb -url <http://backupservername:port> -databasename <ContentDBName> -databaseserver <NewPrincipalServer>

If you did configure additional computers specifically to upgrade the content databases, you can use the following procedure to attach the content database to the updated computers.

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To attach the content database


2. On the Central Administration site, click Application Management. 3. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Web Application Management

section, click Content databases.

4. On the Manage Content Databases page, click Add a content database.

5. Enter the information for the content database you detached earlier.

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for every content database you want to attach.

You must perform the following procedure on all indexers and query servers in your server farm if either of the following conditions is true:

You are running in a least-privileges scenario.

The account that you are using for the search service is either:

Not an Administrator on the local computer.

Not a member of the server farm administrator account.

To start the search service

1. Open a Command Prompt window.

2. To identify the computers that are running an instance of the online Windows SharePoint Services search service, run the following command:

stsadm -o spsearch -action list3. Log on to each computer, either locally or through a remote connection, that is returned in

the list from the previous step and run the following command:

stsadm -o spsearch -action start

Large-farm optimizationIn very large server farms, installing a software update with the content databases attached is not practical in terms of downtime. In the scenario where you have a large number of sites or many Web servers, to minimize the downtime required to upgrade, we recommend that you perform the additional step of detaching the content databases. For the best performance with the upgrade operations, you should use four or five front-end Web servers per database server.

Note Unless you are dealing with a very large server farm, you do not need to follow this procedure.

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To detach content databases

1. To detach a content database using Stsadm, open a command prompt and change directories to %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin.

2. Run the following operation from the command line:

stsadm -o deletecontentdb -url http://computername -databasenameIn this operation, -url specifies the Web application from which the content databases will be detached and -databasename specifies the name of content database to be detached.

Note If your database server is on a separate server, you need to use the -databaseserver parameter to specify the database server name.

After you upgrade your server farm, you must attach the content databases back to the server farm. You can only attach one content database to the server farm at a time, because when you attach the databases to the upgraded server farm, the content database is upgraded automatically.

If you want to streamline the upgrade process even further, you can configure additional computers as Web servers running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 in a single-computer server farm; we recommend four to five Web servers. You must configure alternate access mappings on these temporary front-end Web servers to match the original servers. If the alternate access mappings are not identical, the content databases may be upgraded with the wrong URLs within their site content. This will result in certain pages not displaying correctly, and you must contact Microsoft Product Services to correct this problem. Then, to perform a parallel upgrade of the content databases, use these Web servers to upgrade the content databases while they are detached from the original server farm.

After you detach the upgraded content databases from the temporary Web server, and attach them back to the original server farm, the content databases are ready for service. At this point, you should remove any content databases from the previous version and then back up the server farm.

Note If you detach and reattach a content database, be aware that the next time the content within that content database is crawled a full crawl will occur even if an incremental crawl has been requested. Because a full crawl re-crawls all content that the crawler encounters, regardless of whether that content has been previously crawled, full crawls can take significantly more time to complete than incremental crawls.

The limiting factor for this method is that you cannot simultaneously update more than one content database for each Web application—even if you use multiple computers.

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Verify installationAfter you install a software update, you should verify that the installation was successful by reviewing the upgrade log file (Upgrade.log), as described in the following procedure.

To view the upgrade log file

1. In Windows Explorer, change to the following directory:

%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\LOGS

2. Use a text editor to open the Upgrade.log file.

3. Scroll to the date on which you installed the software update.

4. Search, or visually scan, for the following entries:

Finished upgrading SPFarm Name=<Name of Configuration Database>

In-place upgrade session finishes. Root object = SPFarm=<Name of Configuration Database>, recursive = True. 0 errors and 0 warnings encountered.If you find these entries, the installation was successful.

5. If you do not find the entries from the previous step, you can identify specific issues that may have contributed to the failure by searching, or visually scanning, through the Upgrade.log file for the following terms:

fail errorAfter you identify and resolve the blocking issues, use the "To force a software update" procedure later in this section.

In some configurations, the SharePoint Timer Service (OWStimer) account—which, by default, is the same account used by the SharePoint Central Administration v3 application pool account—is configured with credentials that do not have permission to access the LOGS folder in %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\. If this is the case, part of the Upgrade.log is stored in the temporary storage folder of the account that is running the SharePoint Timer service.

To write all available logging information, including verbose output and detailed debugging information, to the log files for the software update installation, run the following command:

msiexec /p <PatchPackage> /l*vx %temp%\patch.logWhere PatchPackage is the path to the software update file.

You can find the log file in the temporary file location with the file name msi*.log.

Note You can enable Windows Installer logging before you start the software update installation again. To enable logging for Windows Installer, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 99206: How to enable Windows Installer logging (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=99206).

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In addition to the previous procedure, verify that the update was successful by using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site to view the version number on the Servers in Farm page.

To view the Servers in Farm page

1. Use one of the following methods to open the Servers in Farm page:

On the Central Administration home page, click Operations. Then, on the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Servers in farm.

From Internet Explorer, view the following Web page:

http://ServerName:Port/_admin/FarmServers.aspx

Where ServerName is the name of the server, and Port is the port that is configured for the Central Administration Web site.

2. On the Servers in Farm page, next to Version, verify the version number of each server in the farm to verify that each one has been updated to the new binary version.

The following Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 version numbers are correct:

Release 12.0.0.4518

August 24, 2007 hotfix package 12.0.0.6036

For more information about the software updates in the August hotfix, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 941422: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102044&clcid=0x409).

October public update 12.0.0.6039

Service Pack 1 12.0.0.6219

Post Service Pack 1 rollup 12.0.0.6300

If the version number matches the version number for the software update, you have succeeded in updating the server. If the version number is not correct, the software update installation did not complete successfully. To identify and resolve the blocking issues, follow the "To view the upgrade log file" procedure earlier in this article.

If you need to investigate the success of the software update installation in more depth, use the following procedure to verify version numbers on certain files and verify certain keys in the registry.

To perform advanced installation verification

1. You can examine the version number of certain files in %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\ISAPI

The following Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 owssvr.dll version numbers are correct:

Release 12.0.4518.1016

October public update 12.0.0.6039

Service Pack 1 12.0.0.6219

Post Service Pack 1 rollup 12.0.0.6300

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2. Verify that the value is correct in the Version key in the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0

You can also verify that the software update installation was successful by using SQL Query Analyzer to examine the SQL Server schema. Although the version of the DLL files and the registry are updated during the first part of an upgrade—when the files are being copied—the SQL Server schema is only upgraded after the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard is run.

Note The SSP databases could have different version numbers and the SSO databases do not have a versions table.

You should use the following procedure to determine if the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard was run after the software update.

To verify through direct examination of the SQL schema

This SQL Server query can be run on any SharePoint Products and Technologies database to track all the upgrades run on the database in the GUID 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000:

SELECT * FROM VersionsThe highest value that maps to the GUID above should equal the current version of the product. For Service Pack 1 the version should include 6211.

If the installation did not succeed, you can run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard again, or you can use the following procedure to complete the configuration from the command line.

Note You can enable Windows Installer logging before you start the software update installation again. For information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 99206: How to enable Windows Installer logging (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=99206).

To force a software update

1. Open a Command Prompt window and change to the following directory:

%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin

2. Type the following command:

psconfig –cmd upgrade –inplace b2b –wait –force

Add new servers to a server farmIf you need to build a new server to join an existing server farm, we recommend that you use an installation source that has the software update files included. When you use this installation

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source to add new servers to your server farm, the software update is already applied to the new server and the version of the new server matches the rest of the servers in your server farm.

You can download Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 as an updated version at the following location:

X86: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105656&clcid=0x409)

X64: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 x64 with Service Pack 1 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105802&clcid=0x409)

You can create an installation source location that already contains the software updates that match those installed on your server farm by using the updates folder. For more information, see the topic Create an installation source that includes software updates (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0).

If you need to build a new server to join an existing server farm, but you have not created an updated installation source, you must use the following procedure.

To build a server to join an existing farm

1. Install the product without any software updates and do not run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

Note By not running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard you do not define the location for the configuration database by creating the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web server extensions\12.0\Secure\ConfigDB.

2. Install the software update.

3. Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard at the prompt.

If you do not follow this process and you do run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard after you install the released product, the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard reads the ConfigDB registry key and the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard displays: Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. To address this problem, you must either modify the registry or use the command line to force the configuration to complete successfully.

Use registry editor to modify the contents of the ConfigDB registry key and then run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

To force an install after a failed configuration by modifying the registry

1. Install the software update and do not allow the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to run.

2. Use a registry editor to modify the setup type to a clean install. Change the registry key to the following:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web server extensions\12.0\WSS\SETUPTYPE=CLEAN_INSTALL

3. Run SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to perform a disconnect operation.

4. Run SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to connect to your server farm.

Use the Psconfig command-line tool.

Note For more information about using Psconfig, see Command-line reference for the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard (Windows SharePoint Services).

To force an install after a failed configuration (command line)

1. Install the product without any software updates and do not run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

2. Install the software update and do not run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

3. Open a Command Prompt window and run the following command:

psconfig -cmd configdb -connect -server <SQLServerName> -database SharePoint_Config_<dbname> -user <domainusername> -password <password> -cmd helpcollections -installall -cmd secureresources -cmd services -install -cmd installfeatures -cmd applicationcontent –install

Update language template packsFor each language template pack installed on a server that renders content, you must install updated language template packs. To install the language template packs, you can download updated language template packs through the Microsoft Download Center. However, we recommend that you browse to the Microsoft Update or Windows Update Web sites to detect the language template packs installed on your front-end Web server. An updated language template pack is installed for each language template pack that is currently installed.

You must run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard after updated language template packs have been installed for each currently installed language template pack.

To create an installation location that you can use to install the language template packs with software updates already applied, see the topic Create an installation source that includes software updates (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0).

Known issuesThis section describes common errors you might encounter and what you need to do to fix them.

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Error: Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and TechnologiesIf you add a new Web server to an existing server farm that does not have any Web applications, and you update the Web server and then run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, you might receive the following error message:

An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException was thrown. Additional exception information: Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies.The Upgrade.log file found in %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Logs contains the following error:

The access control list on %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\template\layouts\Web.config could not be modified because the path could not be located in the file system.This error occurs when the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard cannot locate or modify the Web.config file.

To resolve the issue, you must manually copy the Web.config file from %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Config to %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\Layouts. After the Web.config file is in the Layouts folder, you can run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard again.

Error: Unknown SQL Exception 15363The following error in the Event Viewer application log might appear after you install a software update:

Source: Windows SharePoint ServicesCategory: DatabaseEvent ID: 5586Type: ErrorDescription: Unknown SQL Exception 15363 occurred. Additional error information from SQL server is included below.This error occurs when the role WSS_Content_Application_Pools already exists in the current database. This is a known issue and you can safely ignore this error message.

Foxit PDF IFilter must be reinstalled after installing software updateIf you installed the Foxit PDF IFilter on your search server, the IFilter does not work after you install a software update. You must reinstall the IFilter.

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Setup stops responding when you use an alternate location for the Updates folderWhen you are using the updates folder and specify an alternate location for the updates folder by modifying the SUpdateLocation parameter in the Config.xml file Setup will stop responding and an error dialog box will appear.

This is a known limitation in the product. If you want to use the updates folder, you must use the default location for the SUpdateLocation parameter.

Error: The search request is unable to connect to the search serviceAfter you install Service Pack 1 (SP1), more disk space is required for your query server or index server. If adequate disk space is not available, your query servers will slow down or stop. Queries that normally take less than 5 seconds will be very slow, return an error, or timeout, and you will see the service error The search request is unable to connect to the search service.

This issue occurs because the method used to merge indexes has been modified to significantly improve performance and reduce server downtime. However, this change increases the disk space required to perform a master merge. Previously, a maximum of 2 times the physical size of the index was required. The new maximum disk space requirement on a query server or index server is increased to 2.85 times the physical size of the index.

GroupBoard Workspace 2007 and software update failuresThe Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 installation will not succeed if the following issues apply:

Software updates for GroupBoard Workspace 2007 that were released before Service Pack 1 were not installed on your Web servers running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

GroupBoard Workspace 2007 is installed on your Web servers running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

To verify that this issue was the reason that the software update installation failed, you can review the upgrade log file for the following error message:

[SPManager] [ERROR] [2/5/2008 4:36:23 PM]: The specified SPContentDatabase Name=SharePoint_AdminContent_913f064d-579e-4029-9522-ec21ecc6f0c1 Parent=SPDatabaseServiceInstance Name=Microsoft##SSEE has been upgraded to a newer version of SharePoint. Please upgrade this SharePoint application server before attempting to access this object.To resolve this issue, follow one these processes:

Apply the GroupBoard Workspace 2007 patch, install the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 software update, and then run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

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Remove GroupBoard Workspace 2007, install the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 software update, run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, and then reinstall GroupBoard Workspace 2007.

To manually run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard from the command line, you can use the following command from the %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Bin directory:

psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait –forceThe GroupBoard product team has developed a software update to enable you to install the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 software update with GroupBoard installed. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 941678: The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard does not finish successfully on a computer that also has GroupBoard Workspace 2007 installed (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102051&clcid=0x409).

See AlsoWindows SharePoint Services TechCenter

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Create an installation source that includes software updates (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)In server farm deployments, all your Web servers must have the same software update version applied. This means that, before you add a new Web server to an existing server farm, this new Web server must have the same software updates as the rest of the Web servers in your server farm. To accomplish this, we recommend that you follow the procedures in this topic to create an installation source that contains a copy of the released version of the software, along with software updates that match those installed on your server farm (also known as a slipstreamed installation source). When you run Setup from this updated installation source, the new Web server will have the same software update version as the rest of the Web servers in your server farm.

Note In this article, we use the term software update as a general term for all update types, including any service pack, update, update rollup, feature pack, critical update, security update, or hotfix used to improve or fix this software product.

Use the updates folderTo create an installation source, you must add software updates to the updates folder of the released version of the software.

To use the updates folder

1. Copy the files from the released version source media for the product to a folder that you can use as an installation point for the servers in your server farm.

2. Download the appropriate software update package.

3. Extract the software update files, by using this command:

<package> /extract:<path>

The /extract switch prompts you to provide a folder name for the files, for example, for x86 systems:

wssv3sp1-kb936988-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:<C:\WSS>\Updates<C:\WSS> is the location to which you copied the files that you extracted from the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 released version.

Note You must use the default location for the updates folder. If you use the SupdateLocation="path-list" property to specify a different location, Setup stops

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responding.

4. Copy the files that you extracted from the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 software update package to the updates folder you created in the previous step.

5. You can now use this location as an installation point, or you can create an image of this source that you can burn to a CD-ROM.

Note If you extracted the software update files to a location to which you had previously copied the source for a released version, the source is updated and is ready to use.

As an alternative to creating an updated installation source, you can download Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) as an updated version at the following location:

X86: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1: (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105656&clcid=0x409)

X64: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 x64 with Service Pack 1: (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105802&clcid=0x409)

Language template packsUse the following procedure to create an installation location that you can use to install the language template packs with software updates already applied.

To use the updates folder with language template packs

1. Download the language template pack package for the released product.

2. Extract the files from the language template pack package.

3. Copy the extracted files to a folder that you can use as an installation point for the servers in your server farm.

4. Download the updated language template pack package for the released product.

5. Extract the files from the updated language template pack package.

6. Copy these extracted files to the updates folder, in the subfolder in which you stored the files for the released product in step 3.

You can now use this location as an installation point, or you can create an image of this source that you can burn to a CD-ROM.

7. To install the language template pack with the software update already applied, run Setup from this location, and then run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to complete the configuration.

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Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1If you have Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed on a computer running Windows Server 2003, and you are planning to upgrade to Windows Server 2008, use the procedures in this article to prepare Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for the upgrade.

Before you begin

Address any installation issuesThe Windows Server 2008 installer will block the upgrade if any one of the following applies to the computer running Windows Server 2003:

Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 is installed.

FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions from Microsoft are installed.

Windows Internal Database SP1 is installed.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 is not installed.

You will need to address any installation issues on the computer running Windows Server 2003 before preparing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for the upgrade.

Install Windows Internal Database SP2If this is a basic or stand-alone Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 installation that uses Windows Internal Database (MICROSOFT##SSEE) as the default back-end database, you must install Windows Internal Database SP2 before you begin the Windows Server 2008 installation. Windows Internal Database uses SQL Server technology as a relational data store for Windows roles and features only, such as Windows SharePoint Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, UDDI Services, Windows Server Update Services, and Windows System Resources Manager.

For more information about Windows Internal Database SP2, and to download the service pack for either x86 or x64 architecture, see the following links:

Update for Windows Internal Database x86 (WYukon SP2 x86) (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108177&clcid=0x409)

Update for Windows Internal Database x64 (WYukon SP2 x64) (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108178&clcid=0x409)

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Stop the Search serviceIf the Windows SharePoint Services Search service (Spsearch) is running while you are installing Windows Server 2008, the search index might become corrupt. To avoid this, you should perform the following procedure.

To stop the Windows SharePoint Services Search service

1. Open a command prompt window.

2. Change the Startup type for the Windows SharePoint Services Search service to disabled by running the following command:

sc config spsearch start=disabledThe message [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS is displayed.

3. Stop the Windows SharePoint Services Search service by running the following command:

net stop spsearchThe message The Windows SharePoint Services Search service was stopped successfully is displayed.

Note The search index might be corrupt if the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard cannot start or if the wizard seems to be stalled while trying to start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service after the upgrade. For more information, see the "Reset the Windows SharePoint Services Search service index" section in this article.

Install Windows Server 2008You can now proceed with the Windows Server 2008 installation. For more information about installing Windows Server 2008, see the Windows Server 2008 Technical Library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=106547&clcid=0x409).

Perform post-installation proceduresAfter the Windows Server 2008 installation is complete, you must perform a binary repair to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

To configure Windows SharePoint Services on Windows Server 2008

1. Perform a binary repair. In Windows Server 2008, click Start, click Control Panel, open Programs and Features, select Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and then click Change.

If Least User Access (LUA) is enabled on this computer, you can follow either of the following steps:

Turn off LUA and then repeat the instructions in this step.

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Run Setup.exe from an installation point (where you have extracted the SP1 files to the Updates folder). When Setup prompts you to choose an action, choose Repair.

2. Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

If you installed Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 as a stand-alone installation or if you installed it on a Web server in a server farm but the farm account is not an administrator on the computer, you must grant the Windows SharePoint Services Timer (SPTimerV3) service permission to read from Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0. Examples of symptoms that you might experience if the SPTimerV3 service does not have the appropriate permissions include:

Future installations of software updates might fail.

Web application creation could fail in server farms with more than one Web application.

Operations that use the timer job to query for IIS Web site properties could fail.

To grant the SPTimerV3 service permission to read from IIS 7.0

1. Log on to the computer with a domain account that is a member of the Administrators group on the local computer.

2. Open an elevated command prompt window. Click Start, point to All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.

3. Change directory to %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\BIN.

4. Run the command:

stsadm -o grantiis7permissionThe following messages confirm the changes:

Granting permission to SPTimerV3 service to read from IIS 7.0 or above.Operation completed successfully.

Configure Windows Server BackupIf you want to use Windows Server Backup with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must configure certain registry keys. If you do not configure these registry keys, Windows Server Backup will not work properly with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For information about configuring the registry keys for Windows Server Backup, see the "Configure Windows Server Backup" topic in Install a stand-alone server on Windows Server 2008 (Windows SharePoint Services) (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=106802).

Known issues

Repair not allowed when Least User Access is enabledAfter the Windows Server 2008 installation is complete, when you open Programs and Features to repair Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or language template packs, you will not be able to

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run the repair operation if LUA is enabled (the default setting). Before running repair, make sure LUA is disabled.

Fixing problems after upgrading without Windows Internal Database Service Pack 2The Windows Server 2008 installer will block the upgrade if you have Windows Internal Database SP1 installed. A potential problem is that, after the upgrade is blocked, the user removes Windows Internal Database SP1, but does not install Windows Internal Database SP2. If this is the situation, and Windows Server 2008 installed successfully after Windows Internal Database SP1 was removed, install Windows Internal Database SP2 and then use the following procedure to make sure your sites and the Search service work properly.

To fix sites and the search function after upgrade

1. Stop all Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services:

Windows SharePoint Services Timer

Windows SharePoint Services Administration

Windows SharePoint Services Tracing

Windows SharePoint Services Search

2. Open a command prompt window and restart IIS with the following command:

restartiis3. To install Windows Internal Database, included with Windows Server 2008, open Server

Manager, click Features, click Add Features, select the Windows Internal Database check box, and then click Install to complete the Add Features Wizard.

4. Use the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Command Line Query Utility (sqlcmd) to start the Windows Internal Database:

sqlcmd -S \\.\pipe\mssql$microsoft##ssee\sql\query -E

Note The sqlcmd utility is a free download, but because sqlcmd requires Microsoft SQL Server Native Client, we recommend that you download the entire Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70728). For more information about the sqlcmd utility, see sqlcmd Utility (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=81183).

5. Run the following command for each Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 database (*.mdf) and log file (*_log.ldf). By default, all files will be in the following folder:

%Windows%\SYSMSI\SSEE\MSSQL.2005\MSSQL\DataEXEC sp_attach_db @dbname = '<dbname>', @filename1 = '<drive:\path\Data>\<dbname>.mdf', @filename2 = <drive:\path\Data>\<dbname>_log.ldf'Go

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You should see, at a minimum, these databases: configdb, contentdb, admin contentdb, and searchdb.

6. Start the following Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services:

Windows SharePoint Services Timer

Windows SharePoint Services Administration

Windows SharePoint Services Tracing

Note Make sure you do not start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service.

7. Restart the Windows Internal Database service:

a. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Services.

b. In the list of services, right-click Windows Internal Database (MICROSOFT##SSEE), and then click Stop.

c. Right-click Windows Internal Database (MICROSOFT##SSEE), and then click Start.

Notes: If the Windows SharePoint Services Search service was running before you started this step, you must restart it by running the following command:

stsadm -o spsearch -action start -databaseserver %_be% -databasename wsssearch8. If you completed a binary repair in the "Perform post-installation procedures" section you

can skip this step. Otherwise, to perform a binary repair, click Start, click Control Panel, click Programs and Features, select Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and then click Change.

9. Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Reset the Windows SharePoint Services Search service indexIf you did not stop the Windows SharePoint Services Search service while the upgrade was running, you might need to reset the search index for the Windows SharePoint Services Search service by performing the following procedure.

Note If you ran the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard while the Windows SharePoint Services Search service was running, the wizard could have corrupted the search index. In this case, you should follow the "To reset a corrupt Windows SharePoint Services Search service index" procedure in this article.

To reset the Windows SharePoint Services Search service index

1. Open SharePoint Central Administration. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

2. On the Operations tab, click Services on server.

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3. In the list of services, click Stop to stop the Windows SharePoint Services Search service.

4. In the warning dialog box, click OK.

Wait for the operation to complete.

5. On the Services on Server page, click Start to start Windows SharePoint Services Search.

The Windows SharePoint Services Search service settings page opens.

6. On the Windows SharePoint Services Search service settings page, scroll to the Search Database section and rename the Database Name. Scroll down and click Start.Wait for the operation to complete.

If the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard cannot start the Spsearch service, then the search index might be corrupt. In this situation, you can use Central Administration to open the Operations Web page and the Services on Server Web page, and then you will see that the status for Spsearch is starting. However, because the service will not respond to a stop request from Central Administration, you must use the following procedure.

To reset a corrupt Windows SharePoint Services Search service index

1. Close the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard manually:

a. Open Task Manager, and then click the Process tab.

b. Select Psconfig, and then click End Process.

2. To stop the Spsearch service, open a command prompt window and enter the command:

stsadm -o spsearch -action stop3. Open Central Administration. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click

SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

4. On the Operations tab, click Services on server.5. On the Services on Server page, click Start to start Windows SharePoint Services

Search.

The Windows SharePoint Services Search service settings page opens.

6. On the Windows SharePoint Services Search service settings page, scroll to the Search Database section and rename the Database Name. Scroll down and click Start.

7. Wait for the operation to complete.

8. Start the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

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