MOSS
2007 serves as a common working platform for employees. Therefore, users can
share their documents with each other, discuss various topics in discussion
boards, follow their jobs with the aid of workflow technology and plan the day
by using calendar. Sharepoint has also strong administrative capabilities.
Of
course, MOSS 2007 is not a product limited to these capabilities. It is a
complicated product that can handle all the intranet, extranet and internet
needs of a company with its various specifications. Therefore, it can serve for
a small company or the largest one. Because of this nature of the
product, it can be installed differently according to needs and company size.
There are mainly two types of installation. The installations have different
topologies. These are:
1 - Stand-alone installation
2 - Farm installation
a
- Small server farm
b
- Medium server farm
c
- Large server farm
The
stand-alone installation is an installation type that mostly small companies
prefer. In this installation type, all the roles and database software are
installed on one server. A very big disadvantage of this installation type is;
there is no transition from stand-alone topology to a farm topology. Namely, if
we build our infrastructure on a stand-alone basis, we could not change the
topology into a farm topology. Therefore, we have to plan carefully and if we
have an environment that is propitious to expand, we could have chosen to build
our infrastructure on a farm topology.
As
I mentioned the roles, I want to say a few words about them. MOSS 2007 has
three main roles. These are; database, web front-end and application roles. I
will explain what these roles are used for, throughout the article.
The
server farm topologies can be divided into three. The differences are as
follows:
Small Server Farm
(Figure 1): Typically includes one database server and one application server
which also runs the web front-end role (totally two servers)
Figure 1: Typical small server farm topology
Medium server farm
(Figure 2): Typically includes one database server, one application server and
one or two web front-end server (totally 3-4 servers)
Figure 2: Typical medium server farm topology
Large server farm
(Figure 3): Typically includes two or more clustered database servers, few load
balanced web front-end servers and two or more application servers
Figure 3: Typical large server farm topology
Transition
between server farm topologies are possible. Namely, starting with a small
server farm and then transition into a medium or large server farm parallel to
the growth of your company is possible. I will explain all the studies in this
article series based on a medium server farm scenario. I mean, in an Active
Directory environment (you can find the details about building an Active
Directory environment in my earlier article “Mail Infrastructure with Exchange Server 2010 (from scratch)”
), I will install one database server, one application server and one web
front-end server. Then I will build and finish my Sharepoint infrastructure by
using these servers.
The
products that I selected for installation (as I mentioned before) are Windows
Server 2008 R2 and MS SQL 2008 products. The following table is representing
the servers’ name, IP numbers, operating systems and the installed products on
them (Table 1):
Table 1: Summary
of the servers
Server Name
|
IP Number
|
Operating System
|
Installed Products
|
Functions
|
mstipdc01
|
192.168.2.22
|
Windows Server 2008 R2
|
-
|
DCGCDNS
|
mstipspsql01
|
192.168.2.15
|
Windows Server 2008 R2
|
MS SQL 2008
|
Database Server
|
mstipspapp01
|
192.168.2.16
|
Windows Server 2008 R2
|
MOSS 2007
|
Application Server
|
mstipspweb01
|
192.168.2.17
|
Windows Server 2008 R2
|
MOSS 2007
|
Web Front-end server
|
Before the installations, there are few points that I want
to stress on:
- The
account that will perform the installations has to be administrator on the
installation server
- For
each sharepoint services, a separate account has to be created
- If
Load Balanced server installation is planned (which I don’t), MOSS 2007 has to
be on the same partition and installation directory
- All
the servers in the farm have to be installed with the same language pack (if
language pack installation is performed)
- All
the servers in the farm have to be installed in the same language
- For
the servers which perform Indexing, Querying and Excel Calculations, a full
installation must be selected during installation
Building the Sharepoint infrastructure can be divided into
three phases:
Phase 1: Installation and configuration of servers
Phase 2: Creation and configuration of “Shared Services
Provider”
Phase 3: Creation of Site Collection and Sharepoint Sites
spsql – SQL database server service account
spadm – installation account
spssp – shared services provider service account
spcrawl – default content access account
spapp – general application account
spsearch – Sharepoint Search service account
I
will use all of these user accounts during the installation and configuration
of Sharepoint infrastructure. I make all these user accounts the member of a group
(called spgroup) before the installation and I also make this security group a
member of local administrators group. Actually, this is not a good practice in
security manner but I don’t want any problem during installation and
configuration phases. After all the work is done, I will remove the spgroup
from local administrators group and then I will give proper rights for the user
accounts according to Microsoft article, Plan for administrative and service accounts (Office
SharePoint Server) . There is one more thing that I want to
mention about the user accounts: They have to have strong passwords and the
passwords for these users will not be changed or will not expire.
In my medium farm scenario, I will install the
database server first and create the database myself. I won’t create them by
using the configuration wizard of Sharepoint Server. After that, I will only
install the Sharepoint Server product but not configure it. After all the
installations on servers are finished, I will run the configuration wizard for
Sharepoint Server.
MOSS
2007 serves as a common working platform for employees. Therefore,
users can share their documents with each other, discuss various topics
in discussion boards, follow their jobs with the aid of workflow
technology and plan the day by using calendar. Sharepoint has also
strong administrative capabilities.
Of course, MOSS 2007 is not a product
limited to these capabilities. It is a complicated product that can
handle all the intranet, extranet and internet needs of a company with
its various specifications. Therefore, it can serve for a small company
or the largest one. Because of this nature of the product, it can be
installed differently according to needs and company size. There are
mainly two types of installation. The installations have different
topologies. These are:
1 - Stand-alone installation
2 - Farm installation
a - Small server farm
b - Medium server farm
c - Large server farm
The stand-alone installation is an
installation type that mostly small companies prefer. In this
installation type, all the roles and database software are installed on
one server. A very big disadvantage of this installation type is; there
is no transition from stand-alone topology to a farm topology. Namely,
if we build our infrastructure on a stand-alone basis, we could not
change the topology into a farm topology. Therefore, we have to plan
carefully and if we have an environment that is propitious to expand, we
could have chosen to build our infrastructure on a farm topology.
As I mentioned the roles, I want to say a
few words about them. MOSS 2007 has three main roles. These are;
database, web front-end and application roles. I will explain what these
roles are used for, throughout the article.
The server farm topologies can be divided into three. The differences are as follows:
Small Server Farm (Figure 1): Typically includes one
database server and one application server which also runs the web
front-end role (totally two servers)
- See more at:
http://www.ipsure.com/blog/2010/step-by-step-installation-of-sharepoint-server-2007-on-windows-server-2008-r2-and-ms-sql-2008-1/#sthash.IaLfDCZV.dpuf
MOSS
2007 serves as a common working platform for employees. Therefore,
users can share their documents with each other, discuss various topics
in discussion boards, follow their jobs with the aid of workflow
technology and plan the day by using calendar. Sharepoint has also
strong administrative capabilities.
Of course, MOSS 2007 is not a product
limited to these capabilities. It is a complicated product that can
handle all the intranet, extranet and internet needs of a company with
its various specifications. Therefore, it can serve for a small company
or the largest one. Because of this nature of the product, it can be
installed differently according to needs and company size. There are
mainly two types of installation. The installations have different
topologies. These are:
1 - Stand-alone installation
2 - Farm installation
a - Small server farm
b - Medium server farm
c - Large server farm
The stand-alone installation is an
installation type that mostly small companies prefer. In this
installation type, all the roles and database software are installed on
one server. A very big disadvantage of this installation type is; there
is no transition from stand-alone topology to a farm topology. Namely,
if we build our infrastructure on a stand-alone basis, we could not
change the topology into a farm topology. Therefore, we have to plan
carefully and if we have an environment that is propitious to expand, we
could have chosen to build our infrastructure on a farm topology.
As I mentioned the roles, I want to say a
few words about them. MOSS 2007 has three main roles. These are;
database, web front-end and application roles. I will explain what these
roles are used for, throughout the article.
The server farm topologies can be divided into three. The differences are as follows:
Small Server Farm (Figure 1): Typically includes one
database server and one application server which also runs the web
front-end role (totally two servers)
- See more at:
http://www.ipsure.com/blog/2010/step-by-step-installation-of-sharepoint-server-2007-on-windows-server-2008-r2-and-ms-sql-2008-1/#sthash.IaLfDCZV.dpuf
