SharePoint - MOSS 2007 as member server or domain controller

Asked By someon

12-Dec-08 11:49 AM

I have set up a test server with MOSS 2007 windows server 2008 and sql server
2008.
I have joined the server to my domain and used only local administrator and
a domain admin account to install MOSS, when I do the actual install to our
server I will create the seperate user accounts.

When I open up the Central Administrator I am asked for logon credentials. I
f I try and open the SharedServices I am asked for credentials same thing for
my site Portal. I cannot open them with the Domain Admin account it will only
open with the local Administrator account.

My question is does my MOSS server have to be a DC or can it be a member
server? If it can be a member server how do I allow access the the Portal
without it asking for authenticated users to put in credentials.

Also is there more info on setting up MOSS 2007 on Server 2008 anywhere on
the Microsoft site or on the Web?

Thanks
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mnl1

03-Jan-09 07:47 PM

First of all, SharePoint should always be installed on a member server and
not on a Domain Controller. For one thing, content deployment will not work
if Sharepoint is on a DC. When you install SharePoint, please use a special
account that you have created for this purpose, and do not use your domain
admin, local admin or any other built-in admin type account. The account you
use for the install must be a member of the local Administrators group on
the SharePoint server and must also have dbcreator and securityadmin rights
on your SQL server. Other than that, the account needs no special rights.

As for your prompting for credentials... welcome to IE security. This is
actually a function of the security zones within IE 6 and 7. To make the
prompts go away you have a couple of options, depending on the version of
the browser you are using. In IE7, simply add the sites to the Local
Intranet Zone. If you add them to the Trusted Zone, then you must also
modilfy the default settings for that zone to allow for pass-through
authentication for sites in the trusted zone. If you are using IE6, then
adding the sites to either the Trusted or Local Intranet zone is fine.

To install SharePoint onto Server 2008 you must use a slipstreamed version
of the source files that already contain SP1 for SharePoint. Other than
that, the process is the same.

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Daniel A. Galant

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05-Jan-09 11:47 AM

Thanks for your reply. I have another question that I wanted to run past you
in hopes that you might have an answer to or at least a thought on.

I have a server with a 150 GB drive for the OS using server 2008. I also
have a terabyte mirrored set. I am going to use SQL 2008 for MOSS and I am
wondering if I should install it on the OS drive and put the databases on the
mirrored set or just install SQL 2008 directly on the mirror set. I also have
some other data bases that I want to move on to this installation once MOSS
is up and running.

Thanks
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mnl1

05-Jan-09 11:15 PM

I always prefer putting the database on a seperate disk. That said, I feel
it is even more important to seperate the databases from the log files,
which you can't do, even with your setup, reasonably. So, given a choice,
I'd go with OS and SQL binaries on same platter, data on the mirror. It
would be real nice if you could add one more disk to handle the log files
though.

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Daniel A. Galant

Imagine what we could be... if we could just imagine.