Flawless MOSS 2007 Install

OK People, we now have two new best friends.  If you are "All SharePoint All the Time" skip the first one covered in the next three paragraphs.

First of all, does anyone know who Chris Squire is?  He plays bass guitar for Yes, this robot's favoritest band of all time. At his website you can order a personally autographed updated multimedia "Fish Out of Water" cddvd for $50 that includes a remastered version of his '70's solo album and a number of videos and other extras.

So, I ordered mine and it involved a number of eMails back and forth regarding format and paypal and they all were "from" Chris Squire.  So I thought, sure and then, finally, there was a question, "what would you like the autograph to say" and so I refered to a deep-cut phrase "42nd scream-down" from Tormato, the band's 1978 effort.

So the eMail comes back and he gives me two paragraphs about the bands lyrics and what they meant to him and how much he appreciated my indications of appreciation.  It really had to be him because, and of this I am certain, no robot or other human could have conceived of those words.  So, now, Chris is my best friend.  But I digress.

Our other new best friend is Ethan.

He hinted that the solution to my install woes might be found in two key activities:

  1. Build out the web sites first; one for portal, one for SSP and one for MySites.  Give them host virtual folders.  Use port 80 for all of them but give them unique host headers and .Net 2.0 support.
  2. Use a local hosts file to support demonstration of appropriate IIS routing prior to the MOSS install.

So this worked like money.  There was none of the ugliness of creating IIS web sites during the initial Central Administration tasks effort, no confusion over which server and port and application and app pool. Each of the three sites had an IIS web site standing ready to support it.  Created the AppPools on the fly and drive safe, thanks for coming.

So, using his hints, the table of content on my implementation plan goes like this:

Pre-Install Prep:

  1. Hardware
  2. Database Server
  3. Install Account
  4. Service Account
  5. Outgoing and Incoming EMail Accounts
  6. Portal Administrators

Install:

  1. Create Accounts
  2. Install .Net 2.0 and 3.0
  3. Secure License Key
  4. Create Host Virtual Folders for IIS Web Sites (Here, Ethan creates siblings to wwwroot for MySite and SSP. I created subfolders in wwwroot; an esoteric difference.)
  5. Modify HOSTS file to support the three host headers used in the three web sites.
  6. Create the new web sites in IIS configuring them to recognize the different Host Headers.
  7. Set the web sites to run .Net 2.0
  8. Run the CD.
  9. Set the eMail settings.
  10. Create the Web Applications.
  11. Assign Services to Servers.
  12. Create the SSP.
  13. Create the Portal.

EEEK Dorks!!!

Post Install:

  1. eMail your HOSTS file to your DNS guy
  2. Take the rest of the week off.

Frigging Munney!

I would be glad to share more details on this with anyone that will leave a polite comment.

Big thanks to Ethan and Chris and if you order the cddvd, be sure to tell him the 42nd Sream-down Tormato guy sent you.

Have a Sunny SharePoint Day!

-robot 


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