Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

310 Part IV: Deployment Scenarios
can be considered to be a separate entity. If you use shared services, which are covered
in Chapter 23, “Personalization Services in SharePoint Products and Technologies”
you can share indexing, My Sites, and user profiles between portal sites to
conserve resources. This section will describe how to create the first portal site in
the farm, but the same procedure can be applied for each additional portal site to be
created. (See Figure 12-28.) A portal site farm must contain at least one portal site.
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Figure 12-28 Creating a portal site
To create a portal site
1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to SharePoint Portal Server, and
then click SharePoint Central Administration.
2. In the Portal Site and Virtual Server Configuration section, click Create a
Portal Site.
3. On the Create a Portal Site page, verify that Create a portal is selected.
4. Fill in the Site Name of the Portal (in this example, Woodgrove Bank), select
the virtual server created previously (SharePoint Cluster), and enter the
account and e-mail address of the portal site owner. (See Figure 12-28.)
5. Click OK to continue. Click OK to confirm portal creation. A progress bar will
display the status of the creation.
Note If portal site creation fails, check the log file to determine the cause
of failure. Correct the problem and try again. Often a creation failure is
related to accounts not having proper permissions.