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Chapter 11: Deploying a Single Server and a Small Server Farm 275
Server 2000—that is, SQL Server must be installed prior to you starting the Windows
SharePoint Services setup process. This installation scenario allows you
to support a larger set of websites. When you use this method, you must perform
additional steps to configure SQL Server and Windows SharePoint Services
to work together. This is also true if you want to use SQL Server with
SharePoint Portal Server. Refer to Chapters 2 and 3 for more information. Such
additional steps could include the creation of additional accounts to use with
SQL Server, configuring the SQL Server database to use Windows authentication,
and connecting your extended virtual server to the SQL server where the
configuration and content databases will be created.
For either option, the database size required for Windows SharePoint Services
depends on the number and size of the websites your server supports. You should
not consider using WMSDE if you will need to store more than 2 to 4 GB of data, if
you want the database placed on a different server than Windows SharePoint Services,
or if you want to use Windows SharePoint Services search capability.
(Although there is no upper limit to the size of databases when you use WMSDE,
you might find that when databases get to a certain size it will be easier to manage
them by using SQL Server.) For more information on capacity planning, please refer
to Chapter 9, “Capacity Planning.”
For more information on Windows SharePoint Services installation and configuration
considerations, please refer to Chapter 2.
Caution During setup, in a default installation, Windows SharePoint Services
extends the default virtual server (the default website in IIS) with Windows
SharePoint Services. If you have a website running on the default
website in IIS, Windows SharePoint Services will take over that website during
installation. Also, before installing Windows SharePoint Services, verify
that Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 are not running on the virtual
server on port 80. If FrontPage Server Extensions are running on the
default virtual server, Windows SharePoint Services will not extend the virtual
server during installation. (If you upgraded from Microsoft Windows
2000 to Windows Server 2003, FrontPage Server Extensions were installed
by default to port 80.)
SharePoint Portal Server 2003
For SharePoint Portal Server 2003, the single server runs the Web component, index
component, search component, and the job server; and it optionally runs the components
for backward compatibility with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001
document libraries. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is supported only on servers that