Re: Script Sharepoint Services Install...

Well done Cornelius! I read the question; thought I didn't know of a script
and left it at that.

Why indeed should anyone want to create a lot of different copies of WSS?

There's one other thing I've now noticed and that is that the request is
also for the department to say on which server they wanted their WSS to be
installed on. As we know there are various possible difficulties in
installing on any old server (the obvious it needs to be Win 2003 server but
also things like removing FPSE; what if there is already a web site using
port 80 etc. etc.) all of which make a standard script for all possible
servers virtually impossible.

So your suggestion is almost certainly the only way to go.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
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"Cornelius J. van Dyk" <c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:004A40F0-E681-47ED-97C2-F885F539BEA2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Ray,
>
> I'm a little perplexed as to why you would be handling WSS deployments in
> such a way. In essence it sounds to me like you would have WSS installed
on
> many, many servers (1 for each department). In this way you end up with
> several WSS server farms that all have to be monitored and managed
> individually. Wouldn't it be better to setup a WSS server farm and simply
> create a new root site collection for each department as they request it.
> This way your network folks only have to setup and monitor one server
farm.
> With WSS scaling being unlimited (unlike SPS) you simply add more servers
if
> the load increase significantly. Also, this way you will have a better
> handle on statistical and trend analysis of log files.
>
> Just my thoughts...
>
> Thanks
> C
>
>
> "Ray Garcia" wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> > I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what would be the
> > best method of going about writing a script to install Share Point
> > Services onto a server? I am reasonably inexperienced in writing
> > install scripts and would like to attempt to create an install script
> > that ideally could be used to save us the trouble of setting up Share
> > Point services and configuration on servers one at a time. Basically
> > whenever someone here at work requests for Share Point services to be
> > set up for their department, we would just run the script on whatever
> > server is allocated to them and it would install with our preset
> > configurations. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
> > Thanks,
> > Ray
> >
> >


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