1. Open Programs "Microsoft Office Server" and then select "SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration" and you will be presented with the Central Administration page. Here you need to perform and configure the following Administrator Tasks:
READ FIRST
Initial deployment: Add Servers to Farm
Initial deployment: Assign Services to Servers
Configure server farm's shared services
2. First select “READ FIRST - Click this link for deployment instructions Not Started” and in the actions leaf select “Read the Quick Start Guide” to open the Quick Start Guide and review the following: .
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When you have finished click the Internet explorer back button to return to the “Administrator Tasks: READ FIRST - Click this link for deployment instructions” page and click “Close” to return to the Administrator Tasks page.
3. Next select “Initial deployment: Add servers to farm Not Started” and in the actions leaf and select “Initial deployment: Add servers to farm”. In the Farm Topology leaf select the name of your MOSS server from the Servers list to open the Services on Server: ServerName task. The server that you selected will be displayed as the “Server:”. Next select the item “Select server role to display services you will need to start in the table below” which includes the following:
Single Server or Web Server for small server farms
All services run on this server
Web Server for medium server farms
Web application and Search Query services run on this server
Search Indexing
Search Indexing service runs on this server
Custom
Services you choose run on this server
For this install choose “Single Server or Web Server for small server farms” if this is the first MOSS server you arte installing.
4.Next from the “Start services in the table below:“ leaf in the “Actions” column select “Start” to start the “Document Conversions Launcher Service”. Here the Launcher Service Settings task begins where you select the “Server”, “Load Balancer” and the “Port Number”. Select “OK” when you are finished.
5. Next select the “Document Conversions Launcher Service” and the service will be started.
6. Next select “Document Conversions Load Balancer Service” to open the Configure Office SharePoint Server Search Service Settings on server ServerName task. In the Query and Indexing leaf you can elect to “Use this option to specify if you want to use this server for search queries or indexing or both.” Make you selection and depending on the options selected addition configuration task will be added to the page. For the purposes of this post check both the “Use this server for indexing content” and the “Use this server for serving search queries” check boxes.
7. Next enter a “Contact E-mail Address” and then select the “Farm Search Service Account” and enter a “User name” and “Password” for the Search service account.
8. Next review the “Index Server Default File Location” and modify if needed.
9. For the “Indexer Performance” leave the default or select to use “Reduced” or “Maximum” if needed.
10. Next for the “Web Front End and Crawling” select either the “Use all web front end computers for crawling” or “Use a dedicated web front end computer for crawling” as needed.
11. Next select Windows SharePoint Services Search to begin the Configure Windows SharePoint Services Search Service Settings on server ServerName task. For the “Service Account” enter the “User name” and “password” to use for the Search service account. Next enter the “Content Access Account” “User name” and “password” to use for the content access account. For the “Search Database” accept the defaults. For the “Indexing Schedule” adjust as needed and when complete select “OK”.
12. Next select “Configure server farm's shared services” to begin the Administrator Tasks: Configure server farm's shared services task. In “Actions” select “Configure server farm's shared services”. In the New Shared Services Provider task. For the SSP Name leave the default and for the “Web application” select “Create a new Web application” for the SSP Administration Site page URL to begin the Create New Web Application task.
13. In the Create New Web Application task specify the “Description”, “Port”, “Host Header” and the “Path” as needed. In the “Security Configuration” leaf "Authentication provider:" you can elect to use "Negotiate (Kerberos)" or "NTLM". You can also elect to "Allow Anonymous:" connections or not as well as elect to "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL):" which requires you to use certificates on your servers. In the "Load Balanced URL" leaf review the "URL" and modify it if needed. For the "Application Pool" leave the default of "Create new application pool" and add a "User Name" and "Password" to be used for the Application pool. For the "Reset Internet Information Services" leave the default of "Restart IIS Manually". For the "Database Name and Authentication" verify your "Database Server" and "Database Name" and leave the default of "Windows authentication (recommended)" then click "OK" to process the changes.
14. At the Success! Task click “OK” to begin the Manage this Farm's Shared Services task and review it.
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