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Using Companyweb with WSS V3 on a SBS box and more information on not shooting yourself

This has been said may times, SBS 2003 was designed with WSS v2 in mind and the clever SBS team are spending their time getting Cougar ready for shipping, so have not gone and re-worked SBS for WSS v3.  There are some great documents that describe how to safely add WSS v3 alongside WSS v2 (i.e. the Companyweb site), but now we have some tips as to how to get a bit more from it.

1st off, you need to read the blogs at http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2006/11/30/wss-v3-0-installation-on-sbs-2003.aspx and http://uksbsguy.com/blogs/doverton/archive/2006/11/19/loading-windows-sharepoint-services-v3-wssv3-onto-sbs-2003.aspx (as this has some examples of what can go wrong if you don't pay attention).

Then hop over to Using CompanyWeb from within WSS 3.0 and see how you can start to build it out.  Perhaps someone will build a companyweb V3 that links into the original companyweb site, but skins it all in WSS V3?

Hope this helps and thanks to Mark Stanfill for putting these up.

ttfn

David

Posted Fri, Jan 12 2007 1:09 PM by David Overton
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Abussi Technical Blog » Blog Archive » Installing WSSv3 onto an SBS Box wrote Abussi Technical Blog » Blog Archive » Installing WSSv3 onto an SBS Box
on Wed, Jan 24 2007 9:12 PM
Adrian P Wilkinson wrote re: Using Companyweb with WSS V3 on a SBS box and more information on not shooting yourself
on Fri, Jun 22 2007 3:16 PM

David,

I've read your blog entries and one or two 'How To Run WSS v3 on SBS alongside companyweb" documents, but one question I've not been able to find an answer to one question.  On a virgin SBS installation, can we remove the 'Intranet' feature (i.e. companyweb) and then do a clean install of WSS v3 that would obviously be unmanaged by the SBS wizards or will the wizards try to play with it anyway?

Regards, Ade.

David Overton wrote re: Using Companyweb with WSS V3 on a SBS box and more information on not shooting yourself
on Fri, Jun 22 2007 11:46 PM

Adrian,

I think the best answer is for me to say no here.  I don't think you will get any more functionality here, so while you could do it - why?  You can always disable the current companyweb and put in a host header of companyweb for your new site.  Providing you don't use the SBS mgmt tools or fax software to drop files into the companyweb.

ttfn

David

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