Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Installation

  1. Administrative Tools, Manage Your Server, add the Application Server (IIS) role. (Enable ASP.NET.)
  2. Download and install Windows SharePoint Services with SP-2 from Microsoft. Accept defaults.
  3. SharePoint Administration, Delete site collection from
  4. Internet Information Services Manager, servername, Web Sites, Right Click and choose New, Web Site
  5. Welcome to the Web Site Creation Wizard.
  6. Description: localdomainweb
  7. IP Address: (server IP Address)
  8. Host Header: localdomainweb
  9. Make a new folder under Inetpub, localdomainweb
  10. Accept remaining default settings
  11. Right Click on localdomainweb, Properties, Advanced,
  1. IP Address: (server IP Address)
  2. Port 80
  3. Host Header Value: localdomainweb.localdomain.local
  4. NOTE: There should be 2 host header values here, localdomainweb, and localdomainweb.localdomain.local.)
  1. Administrative Tools, DNS, Create a Host record under localdomain.local for localdomainweb IP Address (server IP address)
  2. Administrative Tools, SharePoint Central Administration, Extend or upgrade virtual server
  3. Choose localdomainweb, extend and create a content database.
  4. Use an existing application pool. (Network Service)
  5. Enter an e-mail address
  6. Browse to
  7. Template Selection, Choose Team Site.
  8. Site Settings, Site Administration, Manage Anonymous Access, Turn on for normal users to browse web site.
  9. Site Settings, Manage Users. Add any groups/users with whatever access they need.
  10. Add the IT security group to Site Groups Administrator.
  11. Add Domain Admins to Site Groups Administrator.

Allow Adobe PDF to be opened

  1. Internet Information Services Manager, right click on localdomainweb, choose properties.
  2. Home Directory Tab, change Execute Permission to Scripts and Executables.

Add Adobe PDF Icon

  1. Copy the pdf.gif file that you want to use for the icon to the following folder on the server:
    Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\Template\Images
  2. Edit the Docicon.xml file to include the .pdf file name extension. To do so:
  3. Start Notepad, and then open the Docicon.xml file. The Docicon.xml file is located in the following folder on the server:
    Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\60\Template\Xml
  4. In the <ByExtension> section of the Docicon.xml file, add an entry for the .pdf file name extension.
    <Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdf.gif"/>
  5. On the File menu, click Save, and then quit Notepad.
  6. Restart Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).

Backup Windows SharePoint Services

The following command line can be put in a batch file and scheduled with a service account. Replace c:\backupfolderlocation\wss\localdomainweb with your own filename and path.

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\BIN\STSADM.exe" -o backup -url " -filename "C:\backupfolderlocation\wss\localdomainweb" -overwrite

Restore SharePoint Services

Use STSADMWIN.exe to restore an entire site. If you wish to only restore a single file, you will need to do a full restore to another site, then logon to that site and extract the file.

  1. Run Stsadmwin, enter the url of your site, and the path to the backup file. Click Overwrite.
  2. Click Compose, then Click Submit.

Optimize Windows SharePoint Services

Administrative Tools, Internet Information Services Manager, Applications Pool, Right Click on DefaultAppPool, Choose properties.

Recycling Tab

The Recycling tab sets the worker processes to be recycled at a specific time each day, rather than the default of 1740 minutes (29 hours).

Performance Tab

If the application pool is set to shutdown after 20 minutes of inactivity, you can get complaints from users that SharePoint is slow to load.

To configure usage analysis processing for a server

To configure usage analysis processing (shown in Figure 29-1), perform the following steps:

1. / Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Central Administration or Windows SharePoint Services Central Administration. The configuration takes effect for any existing virtual server, so it does not matter which of these pages you use.
2. / Under Component Configuration, click Configure usage analysis processing.
3. / In the Logging Settings section, select the Enable logging check box.
4. / In the Log file location box, type the location to store the log file.
5. / In the Number of log files to create box, type a number between 1 and 30.
6. / In the Processing Settings section, select the Enable usage analysis processing check box.
7. / Under Run processing between these times daily, specify the range of times to start the usage analysis log processing. In the Start box, select the earliest time of day to begin running log processing. In the End box, select the latest time to end running log processing.
8. / Click OK.

Figure 29-1. Configuring usage analysis using SharePoint Central Administration

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