Installation Planning WSS is designed to support a single server or small, medium, and large server farms with services spread across the hardware. In the bare configuration, SharePoint Services supports using SQLExpress and WSS across a server farm expandable up to the full server farm configuration, using SQL Clustering, Load Balancing, and similar. Although there are two types of installation: Basic: All options are installed for you, including the database; you cannot create a server far... more »

Before starting to talk about the installation process...... You will read numerous terms in this site that describe sharepoint products, so to avoid any ambiguity, I will use the following naming conventions: 1. WSS 3.0 will refer to Windows SharePoint Services V3.0. (Previous version is WSS 2.0) 2. MOSS, SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint 2007 will all be used to explicitly refer to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. (Previous versions SPS 2003 and SPS 2001) SharePoint Server 2007... more »

I have invloved in a number of new projects including RedDot CMS Migration and Sharepoint development. I went to a training course for "Administering Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003". Unfortunately our company uses sharepoint server 2007 for their intranet. So I installed and configured MOSS 2007 in the development server. It was straight forward and quite fun! ;) I thought to share some of it with you! ... more »