We have seen the overview of the Central Administration(CAdm) pages in previous post (Part 1). Before we get into the CAdm, in this post we will look into the Installation of MOSS and Post-Installation configuration.
Installation
We can download the trial version of MOSS 2007 from the following link.
Also we can find the following product keys for standard and Enterprise editions.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard: XJMKW-8T7PR-76XT6-RTC8G-VVWCQ
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise: F2JBW-4PDJC-HKXTJ-YCKRP-T2J9D
Once the download completed start the installation by double clicking the OfficeServer.exe / OfficeServerwithSP1.exe. Immediately the product license key page will appeared. (In trail version depending on the key the product will install as Standard or Enterprise).
Picture 1 : Installation - License Key
Once we enter the product license key, if the key is a proper key then the green check mark will appear in the screen and click the “Continue” button. The Licensing Agreement screen will appear and check the “I accept the terms of this agreement” and click the “Continue” button.
We should decide the server farm on the time of SharePoint Server 2007 installation itself. The following pictures displays the server farm installation part.
Picture 2 : Installation - Type
There are 2 types of installation we can do, one is Basic (Single server standalone) another Advanced (Single server or SharePoint farm). Once we click the Advanced installation we asked to select the Server Type.
Picture 3 : Installation - Server Type
There are 3 types of server type installation we can do.
- Complete (Enables all of the options for one server to offer the entire range of MOSS 2007 services and features to the network.)
- Web Front End (Enables only those options that allows the server to run as a web front end server. This cannot be the first choice of a farm unless we plan on installing other servers in the farm to offer the services and features that users will want to consume.)
- Stand-alone (Enables all of the services and features for the MOSS 2007 farm, but assumes that there is no SQL server, so the MSDE engine is installed locally on this server. We cannot scale out this server into a larger MOSS 2007 farm.)
Select the “Complete” installation type and click the “Install Now” button. (Note, also that we can select the location where the product should be installed in the File Location tab and then sign up to give feedback directly to Microsoft if we’d like to do this). The confirmation screen will appear after successful installation of MOSS.
SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration
Once the Installation completed automatically the configuration wizard will appear in the screen (If we check the “Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Wizard now). Otherwise we can get the wizard by clicking Start –> All Programs –> Microsoft Office Server –> SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard. Once the wizard started the following page will appear in the screen.
Picture 4 : SharePoint Configuration - Welcome
On click of the “Next” button, the following alert message will appear in the screen.
Picture 5 : SharePoint Configuration - Warning
Click the “Yes” to continue the wizard. And the following screens in the wizard will drive us to setup a farm. In Picture 6, we can create a new server farm or connecting with the existing server farm.
Picture 6 : Connect to Server farm
Since we are configuring first time select the “No, I want to create a new server farm” and click the “Next” button. The next screen Picture 7 displays the details for configuring the Database settings.
Picture 7 : Configuring Database settings
In this screen we need to give the following configuration details.
- Database Server
- Database name (Automatically created. If need we can configure the existing DB. But it should be empty)
- Database Access Account (Existing windows account with administrator rights – DOMAIN\user_name & Password)
Once filled with the details and click on the “Next” button the Picture 8 : Central Administration Web Application will be displayed on the screen.
Picture 8 : Central Administration Web Application
In Picture 8, we can specify a pre-selected port number for central administration to run on or we can allow the wizard to randomly assign a port number.
And also we’ll be asked to decide which type of security settings we want to use for our farm. Do we want the CA application to run using NTLM (NT Lan Manager) for security authentication or Kerberos? If the latter, there are some special configurations we’ll need to complete in Active Directory (AD) before Kerberos will work. I’m finding that most administrators are happy with NTLM, though those in a larger and more secure implementations are increasingly using Kerberos. Select the NTLM and click “Next” button.
The picture 9 displays the summary of the configuration details which we have entered in the previous screens.
Picture 9 : Configuration Smmary
We can verify the details entered previously in this screen. Since the implementation is for single server the “Advanced settings” button is disabled. Otherwise we can enter the configure the Central Administration Web Application Host in the advanced settings.
On click of the “Next” button the Configuration will start. Picture 10 displays the status of that.
Picture 10 : Configuration Status
Once the configuration tasks are completed the final summary of the configuration and configuration success message will display in the screen (Picture 11).
Picture 11 : Configuration Success
Click the “Finish” button to close the wizard. Now we have done the Installation and Configuration. After we close the wizard, automatically the CAdm web site will open in IE (I am not sure about this, i can’t remember whether the CAdm automatically or not when i installed the MOSS 2007). But we can open the CAdm using Start –> All Programs –> Microsoft Office Server –> SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.
The picture 12 displays the first view of the CAdm (before do the server farm configuration).
Picture 12 : Central Administration First View
We can see the red alert “Server Farm Configuration Not Complete” in the top left corner under “Central Administration”. We will look into the server farm configuration in the next part.
