WSS on Server 2008
We have some unique challenges installing WSS on Server 2008.
First of all there's some chatter about WSS being offered as a Server 2008 Role. The assertion being that you can just go into Server Manager and run the Add Roles wizard to select the WSS role and then the configuration is straightforward. Then there's some dissenting voices that suggest it may be more complicated than that.
Second, there's also a number of issue that arise from the User Access Control (UAC) issues. This technology is covered in detail on TechNet here.
The Microsoft Instructions are here where we get this:
… if you installed the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 and then modified the Enable32bitAppOnWin64 registry key so that Internet Information Server (IIS) is running in 32-bit emulation mode, you cannot install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. To install either 32-bit or 64-bit Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 you must run IIS in 64-bit mode.
Remember in SQL Server 2005, you had trouble with remote connections that had to be addressed in the Surface Area Configurator which no longer exists in SQL Server 2008. Now you just need to look at the server instance properties and make sure " allow remote connections is ticked. Then in the Configuration Manager, enable the protocols you need. Also, we need the SQL server browser serivce to be running.
Also, here we see that when SQL Server 2008 is running using a domain account it must be configured to support Kerberos authentication. Now, nobody knows more about Kerberos authentication than we do so maybe this is as easy as running SetSPN to establish an SPN for the domain user. We get some help here explaining how to configure our service account to use Kerberos.
This may take a while…
More to come…
-robot
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