Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

962 Part IX: Maintaining a Server in Windows SharePoint Services
Note Do not worry if the e-mail address is not real. Windows SharePoint
Services does not check this.
■ For the Database Information section, leaving the Use Default Content Database
Server option selected is sufficient in most default installations. However,
it is best, particularly in test scenarios, to set up your own database. To do this,
simply deselect the Use Default option and enter a name that relates to the Windows
SharePoint Services site. For our example, we’ll use the name Contoso1.
Note If you do use the default content database server, a new database
will be created as STS__. Although you can
find it easily enough by locating the site settings in the IIS MetaBase.xml
file, it is much easier to specify a name to match the site.
Click OK to start the extension process. In most cases, you will have no difficulties
in this process. However, a common error message you’ll encounter is “Unable to
create the database—extensions may not be complete” or something similar. If you are
using a development system and have difficulties that appear to be related to accounts
or privileges, you can default to using the Administrator account. However, you should
do this only as a last resort and never on a QA, staging, or production system.
When the Windows SharePoint Services extension process has been completed,
you will receive the Virtual Server Successfully Extended page. You’ll notice that there
is a link shown next to New Top-Level Web Site URL, as well as an OK button at the
bottom of the page. This OK button is a little odd with regard to navigation, as it will
return you to the Extend Virtual Servers page—apparently under the assumption
that you would extend multiple virtual servers and then set them up later.
In our case, we want to quickly create the Contoso, Inc. Support Group site, so
our interest is in the link. The link should look something like this: http://:
. The server in our example is S2003E using port 382, so this appears as:
http://s2003e:382.
Note This will also be the URL needed to navigate to the site from your
browser.
Click this link to launch the Windows SharePoint Services site Template Selection
page.