Welcome to part 11 in a series of posts which describe how to create a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Virtual PC image for demos and development work. Last time, we looked at how to configure the Internet Explorer 7 web browser security settings so that we can access the SharePoint Central Administration site, as well as the MOSS 2007 portal site that we will create later. This time, we’ll look at how to start a few of the important services required by MOSS 2007.
Part 11: Starting Services
If the SharePoint Central Administration website isn’t already open, select Start > Administrative Tools > SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, then click the Operations tab:
On the Operations page, click the Services on server link, located under the Topology and Services heading:
On the Services on Server page, go down to the listing of available services, locate Windows SharePoint Services Help Search, then click the Start link located on the same row:
On the Configure Windows SharePoint Services Search Service Settings page, enter the following information, then click the Start button:
Service Account:
User name: SERVERNAME\Administrator (VPC02\Administrator, in this case)
Password: enter the administrator password
Content Access Account:
User name: SERVERNAME\Administrator (VPC02\Administrator, in this case)
Password: enter the administrator password
Search Database:
Database server: should be pre-populated (vpc02, in this case)
Database name: should be pre-populated (WSS_Search_vpc02, in this case)
Database authentication: Windows authentication
Indexing Schedule: Daily, between 12AM and 1AM
After the Windows SharePoint Services Help Search service has been started successfully, the Services on Server page should be displayed; go down to the listing of available services, locate Office SharePoint Server Search, then click the Start link located on the same row:
On the Configure Office SharePoint Server Search Service Settings page, enter the following information, then click the Start button:
Query and Indexing:
Use this server for indexing content: Yes
Use this server for serving search queries: Yes
Contact E-mail Address: Administrator@yourdomain (Administrator@mycompany.loc, in this case)
Farm Search Service Account:
User name: VPC02\Administrator (VPC02\Administrator, in this case)
Password: enter the administrator password
Indexer Performance: Reduced
Web Front End and Crawling: Use all web front end computers for crawling
After the Office SharePoint Server Search service has been started successfully, the Services on Server page should be displayed; go down to the listing of available services, locate Excel Calculation Services, then click the Start link located on the same row:
After the Excel Calculation Services service has started successfully, the Services on Server page should be displayed:
You should now have three MOSS 2007 services running properly (two search services and Excel Services).
In Part 12, we’ll look at how to create a Shared Services Provider.