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Hi Tony,

Many thanks for creating this.
I have just blogged about this :-)

http://alpesh.nakars.com/blog

Thank you.

Alpesh

Tony,

As a former 11-year Microsoft employee and content writer, I've never seen someone put together such a great resource.  It's clearly written & illustrated and I found it VERY useful. 

Thanks for your work!

What a work !

Hi Tony,

Thank you for compiling this great resource.  I was able to execute all steps, but wanted to install Visual Studio 2005 (Team Suite) in addition.  I have tried countless times to do this, but the install freezes every time.  Have you successfully installed VS or do you know what would cause the install to freeze up?

Thank you,
Terry

This is without a doubt one of the most well done sites on MOSS 2007. Great Information!
Thanks! Keep up the good work!

LAF
MCP, MVP

Well defined steps.  I forwarded this to everyone I know who want to learn SharePoint.

Thanks
Praveen

This past weekend I followed your steps (up to 16), and I've got a working SharePoint 2007 now. Great.
One step that cost me a few hours extra is I made the virtual machine way too small ( 8 GB), and I cannot (yet?) find a way to enlarge a virtual disk.
I greatly appreciate the work you've done to make this manual. Kind regards, Ad Weterings.
http://microsoftwatcher.spaces.live.com/

One thought - what about making it into a Domain Controller before the SQL & Sharepoint installs?

That way when you're doing demo's and you're not attached to your corp-net you'll have a positive experience.

Thanks
Jonathan

Tony,

This resource is absolutely brilliant. But, I have a question for you - the post number 21.

We are creating virtual machines for developers to do MOSS development. We create a Virtual Image, and everybody gets a copy.

But, then each developer has to change the computer name in MOSS, SQL Server, and Windows. Would you be kind enough to tell us how to do this, and in what order.

Currently, I have problems with MOSS (after renaming the server using the stsadm tool, an error "unable to resolve all identities" shows up when I click on the operations page.

We followed the following steps: change name in SQL Server (addserver, dropserver) , in MOSS (stsadm tool), and windows computer name change.

Thanks,
Adrigo.

Thank you very much for this list, I used it to quickly set up a MOSS 2007 test environment.  However, I have one problem, anyone off of the server attempting to connect to it can't see the Document Center main page (http://server/Docs).  It shows up with the error message "The Page Cannot be Displayed" from IIS.  Am I missing something with permissions?  Can anyone point me to a resource for how to add general users so that I know I'm doing the right steps?

I finally found what I needed on your site; thank you so much I am very grateful.

Tip-top job here, saving me several hours of configuration hell! Thank you.

--Noel Weichbrodt

la guia esta perfecta, deberia tomarse la iniciativa de brindar un ejemplar en español

Jose Antonio Rivera Molina

What a generous contribution to the community!  So incredibly helpful!  Great work!  Thanks!

-- Dave Remillard
    Kittery Point, ME

This is the best install guide for Sharepoint I've seen.

Thank you.

~Digger

I set up moss on a vpc and on the central administration site, javascript error messages keep popping up.....like object expected error....javascript function are totally failing....anyone know the cause or the solution to this?

Muy buen serie de artículos MOSS2007. ¿Una consulta simple, cuál fue el espacio de disco virtual que se usó para esta prueba?

Saludos,

Thank you Tony for this great series. The level of detail was perfect.

Toney,

Thank you!

Thanks, i have collated this info together with other blog posts to make a complete installation guide for setting up MOSS 2007 development environment. This includes having vs.net installed on the virtual server on its own domain (recommended), as well as detailed guides for installing everything.

http://blog.keithpatton.com/MOSS+2007+Development+Virtual+Server+Set+Up.aspx

Thank you very much for this! It is very good and have helped me alot.

Thanks once again

hi there
I ma running 32 virtual server running windwos 2003 server, I want ot create a single installation of sharepoint VPS on one server and tryingot deploy the same configuration an all on the other server .
If this is not possible i need to install wss on 32  Virtual server / VM ware.
 
Do u see think this is feasable?
A simple: configure one VM server and doi u think i can save all the work even installaion in 32 machines  by copying hte oteh files appropriately .
I know this is complex , but am thinking  if we can do . it is great

any way , good job, nice scrreen shots.

Thanks
sunilprabha
sunil@ontinc.com

please any one can help me in publishing MOSS through the internet

Good work i like it very much

What is the recommended size for the Virtual Hard Disk?

Thanks for this great guide!

Hi Tony

You’re the best!!!

Babinski,

As someone noted above, it's a common problem to run out of space somewhere along the line in configuring a virtual MOSS environment.

You can resize them with the "VHD Resizer" tool:
http://vmtoolkit.com/files/folders/converters/entry87.aspx. 

It will take forever as it actually goes through the vhd sector by sector and copies it to a new file.

Also, you will have to do something with the new space that's created.  Someone on the VHD Resizer download site noted:

"The extra space will appear as unformatted raw space. Depending on your drive setup you may be able to resize in in Disk Management, otherwise you need to use something like partition magic to resize your original partition to use the new space"

you should be able to create a new drive and move some files (like a sql log file) to the new partition without any problems.

Thank you very much!

Greetings from Germany!

Tony, I stumbled across this earlier today - having spent the last three weeks doing similar to this. You have done a better job and documented tremendously. FANTASTIC job and thanks for sharing your experience for the betterment of others.

Two words:

wow!
thanks!

You may want to include instructions on Installing Visual Studio 2005, and when to install it.

You should include VS 2005 Estensions for WSS 3.0 and VS Web Deployment Projects.

You can also improve the IntelliSense in Visual Studio by copying all the XSD files from the WSS Template\XML folder to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schema.

Hi Tony,

What more can I say, fantastic stuff.

All the best!

Can anyone explain how to access the site (located on the vpc) from my development machine. I need to publish my infopath form to the sharepoint server located on the VPC

Please help

Keep up the good work!

Rafael

10X a lot!!!!

Me

I have prepared the VPC Image with the MOSS 2007 running. But now how Should I use the same for development purpose. I have workgroup network and VPC is running on one PC.
Please guide me for this.

Jeevan Desarda

You have given me an excellent step by step configuration of sharepoint.

Thank you.

Thanks. It was very helpful.

Good Site! Thanks!

Thank you very much for sharing your experience with us and for all the trouble doing it. This is a great series.
All the best!
Ricardo Franco - PT

hi excellent series of articles ..really useful

SrinivaS