Welcome to part 15 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 outgoing e-mail settings in our MOSS 2007 environment. This time, we’ll look at how to create the MOSS 2007 portal.
Part 15: Creating the Portal
If the SharePoint Central Administration website isn’t already open, select Start > Administrative Tools > SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, click the Application Management tab:
On the Application Management page, click the Create or extend Web application link, located below the SharePoint Web Application Management heading:
On the Create or Extend Web Application page, click the Create a new Web application link:
On the Create New Web Application page, enter the following information, then click the OK button:
IIS Website:
Port: 80
Security Configuration:
Authentication provider: NTLM
Allow Anonymous: No
Use SSL: No
Load Balanced URL: http://SERVERNAME:80 (http://vpc02:80, in this case)
Application Pool:
Create a new application pool
Application pool name: SharePoint – 80
Select a security account for this application pool: Configurable
User name: SERVERNAME\Administrator (VPC02\Administrator, in this case)
Password: enter the administrator password
Reset Internet Information Services: Restart IIS Manually
Database Name and Authentication:
Database server: SERVERNAME (VPC02, in this case)
Database name: automatically generated (WSS_Content_c4560d7a286944bc90b39a01522d857b, in this case)
Database authentication: Windows authentication
On the Application Created page, click the Create Site Collection link, located near the end of the second paragraph:
On the Create Site Collection page, enter the following information, then click the OK button:
Title: MyCompany Portal
Web Site Address: http://SERVERNAME/ (http://vpc02/, in this case)
Template Selection: Publishing tab, Collaboration Portal
Primary Site Collection Administrator: SERVERNAME\Administrator (VPC02\Administrator, in this case)
Quota Template: No Quota
On the Top-Level Site Successfully Created screen, click on the link (http://vpc02, in this case) to visit the new portal:
The new MyCompany Portal should open in a new browser window:
You should now have a fully-functional MOSS 2007 portal.
In Part 16, we’ll look at how to install SharePoint Designer 2007 into our virtual machine.