This article is a part of a series describing the installation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) on a Windows Server 2008 with the newly released SQL Server 2008. Please have a look at "Installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 - Part 1: Overview".
Services
At the beginning you have to start some services.
- Start the "Windows SharePoint Search Service" and enter the service account (aglaser\WSSsearchService) and the content access account (aglase\WSScontentAccess).
- After that start the "Office SharePoint Server Search" and enter the service account (aglaser\MOSSsearchService).
- Please select "Use this server for indexing content" and "Use this server for serving search queries". Otherwise the configuration is not complete.
- Now you can start the "Excel Calculation Services" (or not). You are finished with the services.
Shared Service Provider
- Go to Shared Services Administration and create a new Share Services Provider (SSP).
- Create two web applications for the SSP Administration site (aglaser\MOSSsspPool) and the MySite (aglaser\MOSSsspMySite) using the domain accounts specified earlier.
- After that provide the SSP service account (aglaser\MOSSsspService).
- After naming the databases using your naming convention you can finish the configuration by clicking OK.
- After that the configuration of the Shared Service Provider is finished.
Profile Import
- At the end of this process you should specify the profile import domain account (aglaser\MOSSprofile).
Please take a look at Part 8: Pop3, SMTP, Outlook.