Re: New Sharepoint Install and DocIT

From: Lenertz (Lenertz_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 05:29:06 -0800

Currently we are still moving from a Novell network to Active Directory. As
a company we have not made a firm decision on moving in to Windows 2003. So,
that being said, we are going to start with Windows Sharepoint Services with
the intention of moving into Windows SharePoint Portal Server 2003 at a later
date.

Thanks, Jeff

"Mike Walsh" wrote:

> Please say wheher by "Sharepoint 2003" you mean the Windows SharePoint
> Services (free) product or the chargeable product SharePoint Portal Server
> 2003.
>
> I suspect the latter in which case questions on it should be posted to the
> SPS newsgroup at
>
> microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver
>
> (Basically you shoudl in both cases consider the following basic difference
> to a "current site vi FrontPage". In either of the two "SharePoint 2003"
> products you will NOT be creating a site with FP 2003, instead you will be
> installing the WSS/SPS 2003 application (and you install it *without* the FP
> Extensions. You can THEN use FrontPage 2003 to administer the site (and it
> is very good and virtually essential for that)
>
> In both WSS and SPS 2003 all the information loaded to the site is stored in
> SQL Server 2K. It is unwise to "just connect to what we have" when using
> WSS - when using SPS 2003 you can via it's Search routine access information
> stored in "what we have" but even there it's worth considering transfering
> them to full control of the SPS 2003 system (but ask there!).
>
> The SQL Server can in the case of WSS (and I assume for SPS 2003) be on the
> same server (as can in both cases the default database system WMSDE/MSDE
> 2.0.) Performance reasons might make you want to move the database to
> another server however.
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
> "Lenertz" <Lenertz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5AA3D25C-136B-4703-935F-304F45414C1A@microsoft.com...
> > Currently my company uses DocIT to maintain thier document library and
> > Frontpage to manage the pages. There are around 40,000 documents in the
> > document library though some are old and outdated.
> >
> > I am just a Project Manager with a technical background but there aren't
> > any
> > folks in this part of the organization that have Sharepoint experience
> > either. Sooooo...My question is.
> >
> > The person who admins the current site via Frontpage wants to have
> > Sharepoint 2003 and is thinking that you can get a version with Frontpage
> > 2003 and that they can be used in conjunction with each other to admin the
> > site. I brought up that we need an SQL server to load the documents into
> > to
> > do proper document library work but they are thinking that well just
> > connect
> > what we have. I am against this only because I don't know much about
> > DocIT
> > and all the pubs I've been reading on Sharepoint say that I need to do the
> > document library in SQL on a seperate server.
> >
> > Can someone light the way for me please??
> >
> > Thanks, Jeff
> > --
> > Sr. Planning Analyst...of what I'm making up as I go along
>
>
>

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