Re: WSS v3 Systems Question
- From: "Costas" <cpstechgroup@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:06:21 -0400
Chuck,
I took your questions and I broke them down to Q&A hopefully the response becomes more readable.
Q: Can you install, in an SBS R2 net, WSs v3 on a member server?
A. You can install WSS 3.0 on a member server since it's a Windows Server 2003 service and it's not bound specifically to SBS
Q: Could you also move the SQL 2005 off of the SBS R2 server to this same member server? I am thinking you'd have much better performance for WSS if you did this.
A: You can't separate the SBS 2003 R2 components. ( http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/faq/setup.mspx ). The SQL Server that comes with the Premium edition has to run on the SBS box. What you can do is run WSS on a member server and have the databases on the SQL running on SBS. For better performance you have to have the max memory for SBS (4 GB). If you have a 'busy' environment, I would suggest investing in a SQL Server standard license to install on the member server
Q: If you can install on a member server would you use host headers and DNS entries to get easy access to the WSSv3 sites?
A: Yes
Q: If you had Exchange, in the above scenario, running on your SBS box, and you installed WSS v3 on a member server would you put IIS on that box or leave it on the SBS box? I don't even know if this is possible to move IIS off of the SBS server.
A: IIS server is a service of Windows Server 2003. WSS 3.0 needs IIS to be installed on the server that will operate. You don't move IIS from SBS to the member server. The member server will have its own IIS
Q: Can you have more than one IIS server in an SBS net?
A. Yes
Q: In this scenario would incoming mail work on the WSSv3 member server if you installed SMTP on that memmeber server, that is if you still have Exchange on the SBS box and WSS and SMTP on the member server?
A: Yes, this is the only scenario that incoming mail will work in an SBS 2003 domain. Incoming mail on WSS 3.0 using Exchange on SBS 2003 doesn't work. I can't find the document were it describes the issues but it had to do with the SBS component integration. If you put WSS 3.0 on a member server (let's call it 'backupsrv'), you can install the SMTP service on that server (which will be listed under IIS Manager), configure the server to accept relayed emails from the SBS Exchange server, then go to Central Administration and configure the 'Outgoing Email Settings' using the SMTP service as 'Outbound SMTP server' (e.g. backupsrv.<domain>.local), configure the 'Incoming Email Settings' to use display address as 'mylist@backupsrv.<domain>.local and finally, enable the individual library settings by giving them email addresses (e.g. MyDocs@backupsrv.<domain>.local
Q: Can MOSS be installed on an SBS R2 box?
A: No
With that said.... I would definitely suggest to spend some time at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/default.mspx especially the part of the 'Technical Library' The more you know abut WSS the easier would be to maintain it
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Costas
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