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460 Part VI: Administration of <strong>Microsoft</strong> Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003<br />

Problems With This Configuration<br />

Found at the bottom of the Configure Server Topology page, the Problems With This<br />

Configuration section simply provides reminders of any missing server-role component<br />

configurations. If all required components have been configured, you will see<br />

the following message:<br />

“There are no issues at this time. Your farm is fine.”<br />

Otherwise, you will see messages reminding you of configuration tasks you should<br />

perform.<br />

One last item to cover on this page is the Remove Server button. Click this button<br />

to remove servers from the farm only in the following situations:<br />

■ The server does not have SharePoint Portal Server installed on it.<br />

■ The server running SharePoint Portal Server is unresponsive or offline.<br />

■ The server is running the optional component for backward-compatible document<br />

libraries only.<br />

Before you remove a server from the server farm, you must remove all dependencies<br />

from the server, unless it is the last computer remaining in the server farm.<br />

Configure Server Farm Account Settings<br />

This is a very important page, as it relates to the user accounts used by the various services<br />

to perform their tasks as well as to some connectivity settings the services might<br />

need. If you are wondering why we’ve skipped the four links following the Configure<br />

Server Topology link in the Server Configuration section of the SharePoint Portal Server<br />

Central Administration page, it is because navigating to them will show that they point<br />

to the same configurations discussed on the Configure Server Topology page.<br />

You can configure the following settings on the Configure Server Farm Account<br />

Settings page:<br />

Contact E-mail Address<br />

As part of the HTTP header in the requests it makes to crawl content, SharePoint<br />

Portal Server 2003 provides an e-mail address to each website it crawls when creating<br />

an index. If a problem occurs while crawling (for example, the crawler is hitting<br />

the site too much), the administrator of the website can contact this address. All portal<br />

sites on the server provide this e-mail address to the crawled site while creating<br />

indices. For this reason, the e-mail address for the server farm administrator is typically<br />

specified.<br />

Configuration Database Administration Account<br />

The configuration database administration account is the user name <strong>and</strong> password<br />

that SharePoint Portal Server uses when connecting to the configuration database or<br />

when propagating full-text indexes from index management servers to search servers.

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