Quick Start Guide (Office SharePoint Server 2007 Central Administration Help)
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
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After you install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a single server computer or in a server farm environment, you need to perform several administrative tasks to complete your deployment. This guide describes the administrative tasks you need to perform and provides links to Help topics that explain how to perform those administrative tasks. Links to additional information that can help you plan and implement Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments are also provided at the end of this guide.
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Learn how to deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a single server
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Learn how to deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a single server
When you deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a single server using the default settings, the Setup program automatically installs Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and uses it to create the configuration database and content database for your SharePoint site. In addition, the Setup program creates a Shared Services Provider (SSP), installs SharePoint Central Administration, and creates your first SharePoint site.
After Setup finishes, your browser window opens to the home page of your new SharePoint site. Although you can start adding content to the site or you can start customizing the site, we recommend that you perform the following administrative tasks by using SharePoint Central Administration.
**Configure incoming e-mail settings **You can configure incoming e-mail settings so that SharePoint sites accept and archive incoming e-mail. You can also configure incoming e-mail settings so that SharePoint sites can archive e-mail discussions as they happen, save e-mailed documents, and show e-mailed meetings on site calendars. In addition, you can configure the SharePoint Directory Management Service to provide support for e-mail distribution list creation and management.
Configure incoming e-mail (Office SharePoint Server Central Administration Help)
**Configure outgoing e-mail settings **You can configure outgoing e-mail settings so that your Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server sends e-mail alerts to site users and notifications to site administrators. You can configure both the "From" e-mail address and the "Reply" e-mail address that appear in outgoing alerts.
**Create SharePoint sites **After Setup completes, you have a single Web application that hosts a single SharePoint site. You can create more SharePoint sites and Web applications if your site design requires multiple sites or multiple Web applications.
Create or extend a Web application (Office SharePoint Server)
Create sites and subsites (Office SharePoint Server Central Administration Help)
**Configure diagnostic logging settings **You can configure several diagnostic logging settings to help with troubleshooting. This includes enabling and configuring trace logs, event messages, user-mode error messages, and Customer Experience Improvement Program events.
**Configure antivirus protection settings **You can configure several antivirus settings if you have an antivirus program that is designed for Office SharePoint Server 2007. Antivirus settings enable you to control whether documents are scanned on upload or download and whether users can download infected documents. You can also specify how long you want the antivirus program to run before it times out, and you can specify how many execution threads the antivirus program can use on the server.
Learn how to deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a server farm environment
You must install Office SharePoint Server 2007 on all of your front-end Web servers before you can complete your deployment. After you have installed Office SharePoint Server 2007 and run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on all of your front-end Web servers, we recommend that you perform the following administrative tasks by using SharePoint Central Administration.
**Configure services **After you have installed Office SharePoint Server 2007 and run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on all of your front-end Web servers, you must configure Office SharePoint Server 2007 services. The services you need to configure depend on your server topology and the server roles you deploy. Use the following guidelines to determine which services you need to configure in your server farm.
**Configure the Shared Services Provider **In addition to configuring services on your front-end servers, you must create the Shared Services Provider (SSP). The SSP makes it possible to share the Office SharePoint Server 2007 services across your server farm. You must create the SSP before you can use it in a farm environment; Office SharePoint Server 2007 does not create the SSP by default in a farm environment. Before you create the SSP, you must create a Web application for the SSP administration site.
**Configure indexing **You must configure indexing settings for the SSP. To do this, you must specify a default content access account and configure settings for your content sources. When you configure settings for content sources, be sure to specify the content sources you want to use in a crawl and the schedule that you want to use for incremental crawls. Also, be sure to initiate the first crawl that uses your content sources.
Configure default content access account (Office SharePoint Server)
**Create a Web application and site collection **After you install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007 and configure services in your server farm, you can create a Web application and a site collection. You can then add sites to your site collection. You should create the Web application on the first server on which you installed Office SharePoint Server 2007 (that is, the same server that is running SharePoint Central Administration).
Create or extend a Web application (Office SharePoint Server)
Create sites and subsites (Office SharePoint Server Central Administration Help)
Start and configure Excel Calculation Services To take full advantage of the business intelligence capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007, you need to start and configure Excel Calculation Services. To do this, you need to specify a trusted file location and you need to specify a trust level for external data sources. Excel Services is only available if you use a product key that activates the Enterprise version of Office SharePoint Server 2007.
**Create alternate access mappings **If you install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a single front-end Web server and a user browses to your server, the server will render the content that is in your Web application. However, if you add subsequent front-end Web servers to your server farm, the newly added servers will not have alternate access mappings configured to your Web application. To map newly added front-end Web servers to your existing Web application, you need to configure alternate access mappings.
Manage alternate access mappings (Office SharePoint Server Central Administration Help)
**Configure incoming e-mail settings **You can configure incoming e-mail settings so that SharePoint sites accept and archive incoming e-mail. You can also configure incoming e-mail settings so that SharePoint sites can archive e-mail discussions as they happen, save e-mailed documents, and show e-mailed meetings on site calendars. In addition, you can configure the SharePoint Directory Management Service to provide support for e-mail distribution list creation and management.
Configure incoming e-mail (Office SharePoint Server Central Administration Help)
**Configure outgoing e-mail settings **You can configure outgoing e-mail settings so that your Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server sends e-mail alerts to site users and notifications to site administrators. You can configure both the "From" e-mail address and the "Reply" e-mail address that appear in outgoing alerts.
**Configure diagnostic logging settings **You can configure several diagnostic logging settings to help with troubleshooting. This includes enabling and configuring trace logs, event messages, user-mode error messages, and Customer Experience Improvement Program events.
**Configure antivirus protection settings **You can configure several antivirus settings if you have an antivirus program that is designed for Office SharePoint Server 2007. Antivirus settings enable you to control whether documents are scanned on upload or download and whether users can download infected documents. You can also specify how long you want the antivirus program to run before it times out, and you can specify how many execution threads the antivirus program can use on the server.
Find more information about Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments
For more information about planning and implementing Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments, see the following resources: