Moss2007 Installation Configuration

Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server 2007 Installation and

Configuration

Microsoft® Virtual Labs

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Installation and Configuration

Table of Contents

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Installation and Configuration.............................. 1

Exercise 1 Getting Started with Office Server 2007 Installation...................................................................................1

Exercise 2 Using the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard.................................................................................1

Exercise 3 Office Server 2007 Central Administration – The Home Page....................................................................1

Exercise 4 Office Server 2007 Central Administration – The Application Management page .....................................1

Exercise 5 Office Server 2007 Central Administration – Operations page ...................................................................1

Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................................................1


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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Installation and Configuration

Objectives In completing this lab, you will learn about:

• The installation and configuration options available in Microsoft Office

SharePoint Service 2007 such as installing a new farm, configuring

global workflow settings, configuring incoming e-mail, administrative

tasks, farm topology, provisioning new web applications and

configuring alternate forms based authentication.

Estimated Time to Complete This Lab

90 Minutes

Computer used in this Lab

MOSS


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Exercise 1 Getting Started with Office Server 2007 Installation

Scenario The Office Server 2007 installation is quite similar to the Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) installation,

however there is a notable difference. The Office Server 2007 installation offers an additional installation type

which allows all of the additional Office Server components to be installed to the farm. Once these services are

installed in the farm the administrator can distribute them among the servers in the farm.

Tasks Detailed Steps

Complete the following

task on:

MOSS

1. Install Office Server

2007.

a. Login using the following credentials:

• Username: administrator

• Password: pass@word1

• Log on to: LITWAREINC

b. Open a file browser by clicking on Start �� My Computer and browse to

C:\Media\OfficeServer

c. Double click on the setup.exe executable to begin the installation.

d. Wait for the “Microsoft Software License Terms” screen to appear.

e. Check the “I accept the terms of this agreement” checkbox, and click on the

Continue button

f. The Installation Types screen will appear; click the Advanced button to

continue.


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g. (Optional) Changing to the File Location tab allows you to change the installation

directory for Office Server.

h. Select the Complete server type option.

i. Click the Install Now button to continue

j. When the installation completes click on the Close button to proceed to the


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SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard.


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Exercise 2 Using the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard

Scenario This exercise will take you through the initial configuration of a new SharePoint farm.

In Office Server 2007, the Central Administration site is a SharePoint site collection. This means that a number of

tasks must occur before an administrator can visit the Central Administration site. The SharePoint Products

Configuration Wizard leads you through the steps required to initially configure your Office Server 2007

installation.



task on:

MOSS

1. Run the

configuration wizard.

a. The Welcome screen will appear, click Next to continue

b. A information dialog box will appear explaining the services that will be affected

by the configuration wizard, click Yes to continue

c. Select “No, I want to create a new server farm” and then click Next


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d. The Configuration Database Settings page will appear, fill in the page using the

following information and then click Next:

• Database server: moss

• Database name: SharePoint_Config

• Username: LITWAREINC\administrator


Note: In a production environment a different user specifically created to manage the

database connections for SharePoint would be advisable.


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e. The Central Administration Web Application configuration page will appear.

f. (Optional) Check the “Specify port number” box and enter the desired port

number

g. Click Next to continue


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h. The Completing SharePoint configuration page will appear, click Next to

continue

i. The Configuring SharePoint Products and Technologies page will appear and

step through 9 tasks using the information supplied. Some steps will take several

minutes each, please be patient.


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j. The Configuration Successful page will appear, click Finish to launch into the

Central Administration pages


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Exercise 3 Office Server 2007 Central Administration – The Home Page

Scenario This exercise will highlight the new layout of the Central Administrator site and the new configuration options that

are available.



2 tasks on:

MOSS

1. View the

Administrative Tasks

screen

a. Open the Central Administration page, if this is not open from the last Exercise

you can open it by clicking on the Start �� Administrative Tools �� SharePoint

3.0 Central Administration link.

Note: The Central Administration page in Office Server 2007 is in its own site

collection. The site has full Windows SharePoint Services functionality. It may house

documents in a document library, it can have its own lists, events, and RSS feeds.

Note: The Central Administration site has 3 major actions available; the first part of

this exercise will look at the Home section of the Central Administration.

Note: The Home tab contains the Administrative Tasks list; this list is populated with

the tasks that have to be completed to allow Office Server 2007 to be fully functional.

b. Click on the Initial Deployment: Add Servers to Farm task, the Administrative

Task display form will appear.

c. An administrative task consists of a few major components

• Action: This is a link to the administrative action to be taken

• Description: This is a general description of the purpose of the task.

• Associated Service: This is a categorization of the Farm service associated

with this task.

d. Click on Close to return to the Home page.

2. View the Farm a. The Home tab also contains the Farm topology which will show a list of all of the


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Topology screen servers in the SharePoint farm and a list of the services running on them.

b. (Optional) Click on the View link next to the server name, and view the event

logs for this server. Click on the Home tab to return.

c. Click on the server listed in the Farm Topology list, the Services on Server page

appears

d. The Services on Server page allows you to start and stop services on the servers in

the farm from one central location

e. The top of the page contains a list of general server roles that might be found in a

server farm. When you select a role it will highlight the suggested services for the

role.


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Exercise 4 Office Server 2007 Central Administration – The Application Management page

Scenario This page contains links to pages that help you configure settings for applications and components that are installed

on the server or server farm.

Office Server 2007 gives you the option to provision a new web application from within the Central Administration

pages. This allows a SharePoint administrator to be able to work through the Central Administration pages without

needing to login to the server itself to make updates.



3 tasks on:

MOSS

1. Provision a new Web

Application

a. Click on the Application Management tab

b. Click on Create or extend Web application, the Create or Extend Web

Application page should appear

c. Click on Create a new Web Application, the Create New Web Application page

should appear

d. Fill in the Create New Web Application form with the following information

• IIS Web Site: Select Create a new IIS web site

• Description: Keep the default value.

• Port: Change this to 80

• Host Header: Leave this empty.

• Path: Keep the default.

• Security Configuration

• Authentication Provider: Change this to NTLM.

• Allow Anonymous: Leave this at No.

• Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): Leave this at No.

• Load Balanced URL

• URL: http://moss

• Zone: Keep the default value.

• Application Pool: Select Create new application pool.

• Application pool name: Keep the default value.

• Select a security account for this application pool: Select Configurable

and use the following values:

• User name: LITWAREINC\administrator


Note: In a production environment creating a separate application pool account is

recommended.

� Database Name and Authentication: Keep the default values.

• Leave the rest of the items with their default values

e. Click Ok, the Operation in Progress page will appear.


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f. After the Operation completes the Application Created page will appear, click on

the Create a new Windows SharePoint Services site collection link.

2. Create a new Site

Collection

a. The Create Site Collection page will appear, fill in the form with the following

information

• Web Application: Keep the default value.

• Title: HOL Install and Config

• Description: Hands on Lab for installation and configuration.

• Web Site Address: Select Create site at this URL and keep the default

value of (root).

• Primary Site Collection Administrator

• User name: LITWAREINC\administrator

• Quota Template: Keep the default value.

• Template selection: Keep the default value.

b. Click Ok to create your site collection; the Operation in progress page will appear.

c. After the Operation completes you will be notified that your top-level site

collection has been created, click Ok to continue.

3. View Workflow

Settings screen

Note: Office Server 2007

has workflow integrated

into the platform. These

settings allow an

administrator to control

what types of workflows

are allowed.

a. Click on the Workflow Settings link at the bottom of the page

b. The Workflow Settings page allows you to determine two major things

• Are user-defined workflows permitted (Ex: SharePoint Designer codeless

workflows)

• Are users without site access permitted for workflows

c. The changes made to these settings are global for the selected web application

d. Click on Cancel to return to the Application Management page.


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Exercise 5 Office Server 2007 Central Administration – Operations page

Scenario This page contains links to pages that help you manage your server or server farm, such as changing the server farm

topology, specifying which services are running on each server, and changing settings that affect multiple servers or

applications.

Office Server 2007 allows the SharePoint administrator to define a group of administrators that will have access to

the SharePoint Farm administration. This gives the SharePoint administration the ability to ensure a secure

environment and prevent all server administrators from having full privileges to data contained within SharePoint.



2 tasks on:

MOSS

1. Add a new user to

the SharePoint

administrator’s group

a. Click on the Operations tab from the top navigation, the Operations page will

appear

b. Click on the SharePoint administrator’s group link under Security

Configuration. The People and Groups: Farm Administrators page appears.

c. The Farm Administrators page shows the current membership of the SharePoint

Farm Administrators group. Click New to get a drop down list of options for

adding a new member and select Add users

d. The Add Users page will appear.

e. Enter tracy in to the Users field and press Enter.

f. Double click the user result that is returned and choose “Tracy Tallman”, the

menu will disappear and the Users box on the Add Users page will populate with

your selection.


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g. Click Ok to add this user to the SharePoint administrator’s group

h. Click on the Operations tab to return to the Operations page.

2. Enable Incoming E-

mail

Note: Office Server 2007

allows e-mail to be sent to

SharePoint sites and to

store incoming messages

in lists. This allows

SharePoint to be used to

archive discussion groups

as well as giving users a

fast a convenient way to

share files.

a. Click on the Incoming e-mail settings link, the Incoming E-Mail Settings page

will appear.

b. This page will allow an administrator to enable or disable the ability for SharePoint

lists to receive e-mail submissions. This settings page affects the entire farm

adding or removing the ability to enable or disable this at a site collection level.

c. In order to enable incoming e-mail on the farm select the Yes option in the

Enable Incoming E-Mail section.

d. Click Ok to save your configuration change.

e. Click on the Home tab to return to the Central Administration home, click on the

moss server in the Farm Topology list.

f. Start the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application service.

g. The Operation will take a few minutes to complete once it does you will return to

the Services on Servers page.

h. Open a new Internet Explorer window, enter http://moss in the Address field

and press the Enter key.

i. The HOL site collection will appear, click on the Announcements link on this

page and the Announcements list view page will appear.

j. Click on the Settings �� List Settings option and the Customize Announcements

page will appear.

k. Click on the E-mail settings link in the Communications section, the Change E-

Mail Settings: Announcements page will appear.


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l. Select Yes in the E-Mail enable this list to receive e-mail section, and enter

announce in the text box under E-mail address.

m. Choose “Archive all email regardless of sender” in the “E-Mail Security”

section

n. Click Ok to save these changes.

o. Click on Start �� All Programs �� Outlook Express to open the mail client.

p. Ignore the error message about the missing POP3 server

q. Expand Local Folders and click on the Drafts folder.

r. There will be a draft email in the Drafts folder, double click on this email and click

on the Send button.

s. The e-mail takes a few minutes to process, however it will be added to the

Announcements list as it gets delivered. You can see the e-mail queue in

C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Drop the message will be delivered when this folder is

empty.

t. Notice the text formatting is maintained.


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Conclusion In this lab, you got a brief overview of how to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as well as many of

the new Central Administration site and configuration options.

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Moss2007 Installation Configuration