In many IT environments, database creation and management are handled by the database administrator (DBA). Security and other policies might require that the DBA create the databases required by Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search. This topic provides details about how the DBA can create these databases before beginning the Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search installation or creation of a Shared Services Provider (SSP). For more information about deploying using DBA-created databases, including detailed procedures see Deploy using DBA-created databases (Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search).

Deploying and configuring the server infrastructure consists of the following steps:

• Preparing the database server.

• Preinstalling databases (optional).

• Verifying that the servers meet hardware and software requirements.

• Running Setup on each server you want to be in the farm, including running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

• If you want to search over the Help content for Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search, starting the Windows SharePoint Services Search service.

Note:
Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search supports only one Shared Services Provider.

Creating and configuring a Shared Services Provider consists of the following steps:

• Creating a Web application to host the SSP.

• Creating the SSP.

• Configuring the Web application and the SSP.

• Configuring services on servers.

Creating the Search Center site consists of the following steps:

• Creating a Web application to host the site collections and SharePoint sites.

• Creating a site collection for the Search Center site.

• Creating a site by using the Search Center template.

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, point to Configuration Tools, and then click SQL Server Surface Area Configuration.

2. In the SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configuration dialog box, click Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections.

3. In the tree view, expand the node for your instance of SQL Server, expand the Database Engine node, and then click Remote Connections.

4. Select Local and Remote Connections, select Using both TCP/IP and named pipes, and then click OK.

The SQL Server collation must be configured for case-insensitive. The SQL Server database collation must be configured for case-insensitive, accent-sensitive, Kana-sensitive, and width-sensitive. This is used to ensure file name uniqueness consistent with the Windows operating system. For more information about collations, see "Selecting a SQL Collation" or "Collation Settings in Setup" in SQL Server Books Online.

The following table describes the accounts that are used to configure Microsoft SQL Server and to install Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search. For more information about the required accounts, including specific privileges required for these accounts, see Plan for administrative and service accounts (Office SharePoint Server for Search).

Internet Information Services (IIS) is not installed or enabled by default in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. To make your server a Web server, you must install and enable IIS, and you must ensure that IIS is running in IIS 6.0 worker process isolation mode.

Install and configure IIS

Go to the Microsoft Download Center Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=72322&clcid=0x409). On the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package page, follow the instructions for downloading and installing the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0. There are separate downloads for x86-based computers and x64-based computers; be sure to download and install the appropriate version for your computer. The Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0 download contains the Windows Workflow Foundation technology, which is required by workflow features.

You must enable ASP.NET 2.0 on all Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search servers.

Enable ASP.NET 2.0

We recommend that you configure Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search in the order listed below. This order makes configuration easier, and it ensures that services and applications are in place before they are required by server types.

Recommended order of installation

1. We recommend that the Central Administration site be installed on an application server. In a server farm that includes more than one application server, install the Central Administration site on the application server with the least overall performance load. If your farm will have an application server, install SharePoint Server 2007 for Search on that server first. This also installs the Central Administration site.

2. All your front-end Web servers.

3. The index server (if you are using a separate server for search queries and indexing).

4. The query servers, if separate from the index server.

   Note:
   To configure more than one query server in your farm, you cannot configure your index server as a query server.

Because the SSP configuration requires an index server, you must start the Office SharePoint Server Search service on the computer that you want to be the index server, and configure it as an index server before you can create an SSP. Because of this, you must deploy and configure an index server before other servers. You can choose any server to be the first server on which you install SharePoint Server 2007 for Search. However, the Central Administration Web site is automatically installed on the first server on which you install SharePoint Server 2007 for Search.

You can configure different features on different servers. The following table shows which installation type to use for each feature set.

When you install SharePoint Server 2007 for Search on the first server, you establish the farm. Any servers that you add you will join to this farm.

Setting up the first server involves two steps: installing the SharePoint Server 2007 for Search components on the server, and configuring the farm. After Setup finishes, you can use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard to configure SharePoint Server 2007 for Search. The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard automates several configuration tasks, including installing and configuring the configuration database, installing SharePoint Server 2007 for Search services, and creating the Central Administration Web site.

We recommend that you install and configure Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search on all of the farm servers before you configure SharePoint Server 2007 for Search services and create sites.

Regardless of how many Web servers you have in your server farm, you must have SQL Server running on at least one database server before you install SharePoint Server 2007 for Search on your Web servers. By default, when you add servers to the farm and run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, the wizard does not create additional Central Administration sites on the servers that you add, nor does it create any databases on your database server. However, you can use the wizard to create additional Central Administration sites on the servers that you add.

1. From the product disc, run Setup.exe, or from the product download, run Officeserver.exe, on one of your Web servers.

2. On the Enter your Product Key page, enter your product key, and then click Continue.

   Note:
   Setup automatically verifies the product key, places a green check mark next to the text box, and enables the Continue button after it validates the key. If the key is not valid, Setup displays a red circle next to the text box and prompts you that the key is incorrect.

3. On the Read the Microsoft Software License Terms page, review the terms, select the I accept the terms of this agreement check box, and then click Continue.

4. On the Choose the installation you want page, click Advanced. The Basic option is for stand-alone installations.

5. On the Server Type tab, select Complete.

6. Optionally, to install SharePoint Server 2007 for Search at a custom location, select the File Location tab, and then type the location or Browse to the location.

7. Optionally, to participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program, select the Feedback tab and select the option you want. To learn more about the program, click the link. You must have an Internet connection to view the program information.

8. When you have chosen the correct options, click Install Now.

9. When Setup finishes, a dialog box appears that prompts you to complete the configuration of your server. Be sure that the Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard now check box is selected.

10. Click Close to start the configuration wizard. Instructions for completing the wizard are provided in the next set of steps.

1. On the Welcome to SharePoint Products and Technologies page, click Next.

2. Click Yes in the dialog box that notifies you that some services might need to be restarted during configuration.

3. On the Connect to a server farm page, click No, I want to create a new server farm, and then click Next.

4. In the Specify Configuration Database Settings dialog box, in the Database server box, type the name of the computer that is running SQL Server.

5. Type a name for your configuration database in the Database name box, or use the default database name. The default name is "SharePoint_Config".

6. In the User name box, type the user name of the Server farm account. (Be sure to type the user name in the format DOMAIN\username.)

   Important:

   The server farm account is used to access your configuration database. It also acts as the application pool identity for the SharePoint Central Administration application pool, and it is the account under which the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service runs. The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard adds this account to the SQL Server Logins, the SQL Server Database Creator server role, and the SQL Server Security Administrators server role. The user account that you specify as the service account must be a domain user account, but it does not need to be a member of any specific security group on your Web servers or your back-end database servers. We recommend that you follow the principle of least privilege and specify a user account that is not a member of the Administrators group on your Web servers or your back-end servers.

7. In the Password box, type the user's password, and then click Next.

8. On the Configure SharePoint Central Administration Web Application page, select the Specify port number check box and type a port number if you want the SharePoint Central Administration Web application to use a specific port, or leave the Specify port number check box cleared if you do not care which port number the SharePoint Central Administration Web application uses.

9. In the Configure SharePoint Central Administration Web Application dialog box, do one of the following:

   • If you want to use NTLM authentication (the default), click Next.

   • If you want to use Kerberos authentication, click Negotiate (Kerberos), and then click Next.

     Note:

     In most cases, use the default setting (NTLM). Use Negotiate (Kerberos) only if Kerberos authentication is supported in your environment. Using the Negotiate (Kerberos) option requires you to configure a Service Principal Name (SPN) for the domain user account. To do this, you must be a member of the Domain Admins group. For more information, see How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=76570&clcid=0x409).

10. On the Completing the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard page, click Next.

11. On the Configuration Successful page, click Finish.

    The SharePoint Central Administration Web site home page opens.

    Note:
    If you are prompted for your user name and password, you might need to add the SharePoint Central Administration site to the list of trusted sites and configure user authentication settings in Internet Explorer. Instructions for configuring these settings are provided in the next set of steps.

    Note:
    If a proxy server error message appears, you might need to configure your proxy server settings so that local addresses bypass the proxy server. Instructions for configuring this setting are provided later in this section.

1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.

2. On the Security tab, in the Select a Web content zone to specify its security settings box, click Trusted sites, and then click Sites.

3. Clear the Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone check box.

4. In the Add this Web site to the zone box, type the URL for the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, and then click Add.

5. Click Close to close the Trusted sites dialog box.

6. Click OK to close the Internet Options dialog box.

1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.

2. On the Connections tab, in the Local Area Network (LAN) settings area, click LAN Settings.

3. In the Automatic configuration section, clear the Automatically detect settings check box.

4. In the Proxy Server section, select the Use a proxy server for your LAN check box.

5. Type the address of the proxy server in the Address box.

6. Type the port number of the proxy server in the Port box.

7. Select the Bypass proxy server for local addresses check box.

8. Click OK to close the Local Area Network (LAN) Settings dialog box.

9. Click OK to close the Internet Options dialog box.

1. From the product disc, run Setup.exe, or from the product download, run Officeserver.exe, on one of your Web servers.

2. On the Enter your Product Key page, enter your product key, and then click Continue.

   Note:
   Setup automatically verifies the product key, places a green check mark next to the text box, and enables the Continue button after it validates the key. If the key is not valid, Setup displays a red circle next to the text box and prompts you that the key is incorrect.

3. On the Read the Microsoft Software License Terms page, review the terms, select the I accept the terms of this agreement check box, and then click Continue.

4. On the Choose the installation you want page, click Advanced.

5. On the Server Type tab, click Web Front End.

6. Optionally, to install SharePoint Server 2007 for Search at a custom location, select the File Location tab, and then type the location or Browse to the location.

7. Optionally, to participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program, select the Feedback tab and select the option you want. To learn more about the program, click the link. You must have an Internet connection to view the program information.

8. When you have chosen the correct options, click Install Now.

9. When Setup finishes, a dialog box appears that prompts you to complete the configuration of your server. Be sure that the Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard now check box is selected.

10. Click Close to start the configuration wizard. Instructions for completing the wizard are provided in the following section.

1. From the product disc, run Setup.exe, or from the product download, run Officeserver.exe, on one of your Web servers.

2. On the Enter your Product Key page, enter your product key, and then click Continue.

   Note:
   Setup automatically verifies the product key, places a green check mark next to the text box, and enables the Continue button after it validates the key. If the key is not valid, Setup displays a red circle next to the text box and prompts you that the key is incorrect.

3. On the Read the Microsoft Software License Terms page, review the terms, select the I accept the terms of this agreement check box, and then click Continue.

4. On the Choose the installation you want page, click Advanced.

5. On the Server Type tab, click Complete.

6. Optionally, to install SharePoint Server 2007 for Search at a custom location, select the File Location tab, and then type the location or Browse to the location.

7. Optionally, to participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program, select the Feedback tab and select the option you want. To learn more about the program, click the link. You must have an Internet connection to view the program information.

8. When you have chosen the correct options, click Install Now.

9. When Setup finishes, a dialog box appears that prompts you to complete the configuration of your server. Be sure that the Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard now check box is selected.

10. Click Close to start the configuration wizard. Instructions for completing the wizard are provided in the next set of steps.

1. On the Welcome to SharePoint Products and Technologies page, click Next.

2. Click Yes in the dialog box that notifies you that some services might need to be restarted during configuration.

3. On the Connect to a server farm page, click Yes, I want to connect to an existing server farm, and then click Next.

4. In the Specify Configuration Database Settings dialog box, in the Database server box, type the name of the computer that is running SQL Server.

5. Click Retrieve Database Names, and then from the Database name list, select the database name that you created when you configured the first server in your server farm.

6. In the User name box, type the user name of the account used to connect to the computer running SQL Server. (Be sure to type the user name in the format DOMAIN\username.) This must be the same user account you used when configuring the first server.

7. In the Password box, type the user's password, and then click Next.

8. On the Completing the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard page, click Next.

9. On the Configuration Successful page, click Finish.

1. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Operations tab on the top link bar.

2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Services on server.

3. On the Services on Server page, next to Window SharePoint Services Search, click Start.

4. On the Configure Windows SharePoint Services Search Service Settings page, in the Service Account section, type the user name and password for the user account under which the Windows SharePoint Services Search service account will run.

5. In the Content Access Account section, type the user name and password for the user account that the search service will use to search over content. This account must have read access to all the content you want it to search over. If you do not specify credentials, the same account used for the search service will be used.

6. In the Indexing Schedule section, either accept the default settings, or specify the schedule that you want the search service to use when searching over content.

7. After you have configured all the settings, click Start.

1. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Operations tab on the top link bar.

2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Services on server.

3. On the Services on Server page, next to Window SharePoint Services Web Application, click Stop.

1. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Operations tab on the top link bar.

2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Services on server.

3. In the Server list, select the server that you want to configure as an index server and — optionally — as a query server.

4. On the Services on Server page, next to Office SharePoint Server Search, click Start.

5. Select the Use this server for indexing content check box. This expands the page and adds the Index Server Default File Location, Indexer Performance, and Web Front End and Crawling sections.

6. If you want to use this server to service search queries, select the Use this server for servicing search queries check box. This expands the page and adds the Query Server Index File Location section. If not, skip to the next step.

7. In the Contact E-mail Address section, type the e-mail address you want external site administrators to use to contact your organization if problems arise when their sites are being crawled by your index server.

8. In the Farm Search Service Account section, specify the User name and Password of the account under which the search service will run. This account must be a member of the Administrators group on the server, but it should not be a member of the Farm Administrators group in the Central Administration Web site (the WSS_ADMIN_WPG Windows security group). The correct permissions are automatically granted for this account during installation.

9. Optionally, you can also configure other settings or accept the default settings.

10. When you have configured all the settings, click Start.

1. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Operations tab on the top link bar.

2. On the Operations page, in the Topology and Services section, click Services on server.

3. In the Server list, select the server that you want to configure as a query server.

4. On the Services on Server page, next to Office SharePoint Server Search, click Start.

5. Select the Use this server for servicing search queries check box. This expands the page and adds the Query Server Index File Location section.

6. In the Farm Search Service Account section, specify the User name and Password of the account under which the search service will run. This account must be a member of the Administrators group on the server, and also a member of the Farm Administrators group in the Central Administration Web site (the WSS_ADMIN_WPG Windows security group).

7. In the Query Server Index File Location section, in the Query server index file location box, either type the location on the local drive of the query server on which you want to store the propagated index, or accept the default path.

8. In the Query Server Index File Location section, select one the following:

   • Configure share automatically   Select this option to automatically configure the share on which you want to store the propagated index, and type the user name and password of the account that you want to use to propagate the index (recommended).

   Important:
   This account must a member of the Administrators group and a member of the WSS_ADM_WPG group on the query server before you proceed to the next step, or propagation of the index will fail.

   • I will configure the share with STSAdm   Select this option if you want to use the Stsadm command-line tool to create this share at a later time.

   • Do nothing. The share is already configured   Select this option if the share already exists and the permissions to the share are configured as described above.

9. When you have configured all the settings, click Start.

1. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Application Management tab on the top link bar.

2. On the Application Management page, in the Office SharePoint Server Shared Services section, click Create or configure this farm's shared services.

3. On the Manage this Farm's Shared Services page, click New SSP.

4. On the New Shared Services Provider page, in the SSP Name section, click Create a new Web application.

   Note:
   If you see any items in the Web application drop-down list, a Web application has already been created. You can either use this Web application or create another.

5. On the Create New Web Application page, in the Application Pool section, specify the User name and Password for the user account that the Web application pool will run under.

6. You can also configure other settings on this page, or click OK to create the new Web application.

   Note:
   By default, the Web application uses the default Web site in IIS and port 80. This port might be used by other Web applications. Ensure that this port is open for use, or choose another port before you click OK.

   Note:
   By default, Restart IIS Manually is selected. If you use this setting, you must restart the default Web site in IIS, or restart the W3C service by using the command line.

7. On the New Shared Services Provider page, in the SSP Service Credentials section, type the user name and password for the user account that the SSP service will run under.

8. Optionally, you can also configure other settings.

9. When you have configured all the settings, click OK.

10. After the SSP has been created, click OK on the confirmation page that appears.