Martin Y. Leveille Sharepoint Engineer RJB Technical Consulting, Inc. Installation and Configuration Methodology For Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting Pre-requisites For installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web/Application Server : Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 Microsoft.NET Framework 3.0 Microsoft IIS 6.0 in IIS 6.0 worker process isolation mode with Microsoft ASP.NET installed and enabled. NTFS File System

RJB Technical Consulting Pre-requisites For installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Database Server : Any OS version that supports MS SQL Server 2000 or 2005 MS SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 3 The database server does not have to be dedicated to Sharepoint. Optionally, the database server can be a SQL Cluster.

RJB Technical Consulting Pre-requisites For installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Hardware Recommendations: Web Server and Application server : Dual Processor computer with processor clock speed of 2.5GHz or higher and a minimum of 2GB RAM. Database Server : Dual Processor computer with processor clock speed of 2.0GHz or higher and a minimum of 2GB RAM.

RJB Technical Consulting Pre-requisites For installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Users and service accounts : MOSS Setup user account Server/Farm Account Shared Services Provider Process Account Web Application Process Account (1 per web application) Search Service Account Search Content Access Account

RJB Technical Consulting Pre-requisites For installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 DNS Entries : Portal.domain.com : Portal web application Mysite.domain.com : My Site Web application Ssp.domain.com : Shared Services Provider Web Application Additional DNS entry for subsequent Web application.

RJB Technical Consulting Pre-requisites For installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Security considerations : Service accounts do not need Local admin privileges. Web application service accounts need to be manually given Local activation permission to the IIS WAMREG Admin service components.

RJB Technical Consulting Top 10 - IT Capacity Guidelines MetricPreferred IT Max Cap Guideline* Site Collections /DB 2505,00050,000 Database Size/DB 25-50GB 100 GB Databases/SQL Instance Database Size/SQL Instance 2TB3TB Child Portals/Farm Full Portals/Farm App Pools/Server Worker Processes/Server 1 per 800MB RAM 1 per 400MB RAM Site Collection Max Quota 5GB 50GB (DB) File Upload Size 50MB100MB2GB Based on Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technologies Capacity Planning & SQL 2000 All other numbers are based on Microsoft IT experience on SharePoint Products & Technologies including SP1Based on Microsoft SharePoint Products & Technologies Capacity Planning & SQL 2000 All other numbers are based on Microsoft IT experience on SharePoint Products & Technologies including SP1

RJB Technical Consulting Data – Suggested Limits ObjectScopeGuideline Site collectionsDatabase50,000 Web sitesSite collection250,000 (sub) Web sitesWeb site2,000 ListsWeb site2,000 ItemsList10 M DocumentsDoc Library2 M DocumentsFolder2,000 Document sizeFile2 GB Indexed Documents (MOSS) SSP50 M Search Scopes (MOSS) Site Collection1,000 # Profiles (MOSS) SSP5 M Capacity Framework

RJB Technical Consulting Changes made to your server when Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is installed File System Registry IIS 6.0 Databases

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Installation Methodology

1- MOSS 2007 Binaries installation 2- Using The Sharepoint Installation And Configuration Wizard 3- Configuring and Administrating Central Administration Operations 4- Creating The Shared Services Provider 5- Configuring and Administrating Application Management 6- Configuring The Shared Services Provider 7- Finalize configurations

RJB Technical Consulting 1- MOSS 2007 Binaries installation 2- Using The Sharepoint Installation And Configuration Wizard 3- Configuring and Administering Central Administration Operations 4- Creating The Shared Services Provider 5- Configuring and Administering Application Management 6- Configuring The Shared Services Provider 7- Finalize configur ations

1- MOSS 2007 Binaries installation

RJB Technical Consulting Step Requirements Domain user with Local Server administrator rights All Installation Web Front End Software and hardware requirements met. MOSS 2007 Product Key

RJB Technical Consulting How to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting How to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting How to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting How to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting Hints and Tips Always proceed with an “advanced” and “Complete” installation. Install programs and data files to different Hard Drives.

2- Using The Sharepoint Installation And Configuration Wizard

RJB Technical Consulting Step Requirements SQL Server name Configuration Database name ( i.e. SERVER_Sharepoint_Config) Farm Service Account with Create DB and Security Admin rights on the SQL Server. Security Mode (NTLM or Kerberos )

RJB Technical Consulting How to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting How to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting How to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting How to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting How to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting How to install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

RJB Technical Consulting Hints and Tips Establish a naming convention for all your database. Ex. : COMPANY_MOSS_Config COMPANY_MOSS_PORTAL_Content COMPANY_MOSS_MYSITE_Content COMPANY_MOSS_SSP_Content COMPANY_MOSS_SSP_DB COMPANY_MOSS_SSP_SEARCH_DB

3- Configuring and Administering Central Administration Operations

RJB Technical Consulting Step Requirements Smtp mail server address Service’s list to run on the server Search Services Search Account Farm Administrator’s list Directory name and location for Diagnostic Logging Directory name and location for Usage Analysis Backup files Location

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RJB Technical Consulting Hints and Tips When Configuring The server operations, use the “N” approach. Once Operations are configured, test you backup/restore before going any further in your installation. Backup after each section is configured ( Operations, Applications, Shared Services )

4- Creating The Shared Services Provider

RJB Technical Consulting Step Requirements Registered DNS names for you SSP and “My Site” Web site Application pool name defined for your SSP and “My Site” SSP Service Account “My Site” Service Account Database names for SSP and “My Site” Content Search Services Search Account Database names for SSP Data and SSP Search. Index Server server name.

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RJB Technical Consulting Hints and Tips Before creating your SSP, make sure you have the Windows Search Services and Office Search Services up and running in the Central Admin Operations Console. Use the embedded “web application creation” from the SSP creation screen for the SSP and My Site Web Application. All Web Application should have their own service accounts.

5- Configuring and Administering Application Management

RJB Technical Consulting Step Requirements Registered DNS names for you Portal Web site Application pool name defined for your Portal Portal Service Account Database names for your Portal Content

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RJB Technical Consulting Hints and Tips Use the “N” Approach for configuring. If you have multiple Web Applications, remember to switch from one to another to configure the settings for each of them. The last web application you select from the web application list is always the one settings initially applies to. Make sure you enable the “Self-Site Management” feature for your “My Site” web application. Backup the system from the Operations console.

6- Configuring The Shared Services Provider

RJB Technical Consulting Step Requirements Search “Crawl” Account Profile import defined schedule ( Full, differential ) Content crawl defined schedule ( Full Differential ) Audiences Compilation Schedule Defined “Service Personalization Permissions” Trusted File Locations for Excel Services.

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RJB Technical Consulting Hints and Tips Configure the “Search Settings” last. For everything else, use the “N” approach. When configuring your content sources and crawl schedules, select the “Start full crawl of this content source” before exiting”. Test the searches and “My Site” creations.

7- Finalize configurations

RJB Technical Consulting Additional Steps Configure the “Master Site Directory” and the “Site Directory Links scan” in the Admin Console Operations Page. Depending on options purchased, verify that you have all your features enabled on all sites. In the “Office Sharepoint Shared Services” section of the Application Management page, click on “Services Enabled on this farm” and verify that there are no errors. Using the Scheduler and stsadm.exe, Create and enforce backup jobs.

Thank You!!!... Martin Y. Leveille Sharepoint Engineer RJB Technical Consulting, Inc.