Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Rick — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:30:02 GMT

Did anyone keep record of whatever was here?

www.mrict.co.uk/.../incoming_email_for_wss_3_and_sbs.asp

This was mentioned in the comments above and referenced in one of your old PPTs, David.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Jack — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:46:47 GMT

Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003 is very feasible during working on this platform after installation.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

David Overton — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:06:09 GMT

Dave,

Always take a backup :-)

Then follow the instructions in the link in the main blog post to install WSS v3 (no migration option - new install) and move forward - oh, and call it something other than companyweb to be sure !!

ttfn

David

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Dave Parsons — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:22:26 GMT

Ok thanks for that exceptionally quick response David.

I prefer personnaly the V3 Option if Im honest,

however Ive seen a few links mentioning re-installing or should I say a repair of V2 in our case back onto SBS, do you have a link yourself to a definitive guide on this.

Thanks very much for your time David I appreciate you taking your time out to help the rest of us who do not specialise in this area.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

David Overton — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:15:48 GMT

Dave,

If you want SBS integration into WSS then it has to be WSS v2. If you want the v3 features then it has to be V3. For V3, create a site, give it a name via host headers and the port for SSL. Create an entry in the DNS for it (eg companyweb) then create a WSS v3 site as per normal by promoting the site using the SharePoint console.

Thanks

David

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Dave Parsons — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:55:43 GMT

Have an SBS 2003 Server with a completely dead sharepoint on there. Not sure what happened previously as Im led to believe it never worked. Cant get to it via IIS and right clicking on the companyweb site or via the SBS Server management gui.

My question is.

We would like to now use sharepoint from scratch as its never being used in the past,

On this one 2003 SBS server we have Exchange running with Outlook webaccess with activesync running for the Smart phones obviously with a full ssl cert from godaddy for the activesync to function.

Is it better to / and also can I,

Reinstall sharepoint that came with SBS 2003 originally.

Would it be better to / and also could I install Sharepoint Services V3 that ships with the full version of 2003 Std.

Obviously I do not want to corrupt the full exchange IIS Directory in doing eith of the above.

Many thanks

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Sean Kearney — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:25:36 GMT

I sat down this weekend and got it implemented on our Colo server. The install was actually pretty smooth and there weren't too many headaches. I haven't had any luck on getting it to properly publish the intranet company as a live internet site, but I think it's more to do with link translation (I can actually see the site on the internet trying to access the server by name)

But RWW and Exchange are still working. I think I remember having to do something with either the IP address of the default Sharepoint V3 site since it was sitting on port 80 as well as the default site for Exchange / RWW / OMA et al.

Looks prettier... :)

For us, it was a decision that SBS 2008 is coming out and start getting our techs ready to use the newer setup instead of public folders. Hopefully this will make an easier migration to Sharepoint V3 on SBS 2008.

I'm looking forward to it...

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

cheyennemtnman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:15:35 GMT

John ... did your email get to working in w.s.s 3.0?

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

John — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:41:49 GMT

I have WSS 3.0 running on small business server 2003 server and am trying to sync my lists with outlook 2007. I can create the connection fine but when outlook does a send and receive it throws an error

"An error occured eith in Sharepoint or outlook. Contact the sharepoint site administrator. HTTP 400"

Has anyone come accross this before? Is there something I am missing.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Robert A. Truxal — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:10:40 GMT

I must agree in part with Alex's sentiment and am strongly concerned with the defensive (turned offensive) excuses for the lagging state of SBS.

It is absurd on the face of it to excuse MS for this sorry state of affairs because of poor allocations of resources when they are fully in control of these same allocations.

As an outsider with over 30+ years in IT, the problem seems much more malignant than simply underfunding and understaffing. More $$$ (US here, no pounds) is not always the answer. Why is the integration of Sharepoint 3.0 non-trival? Is there no coordination between the teams within MS? No participation in the design considerations? Are you saying that Sharepoint 3.0 was simply DUMPED on the SBS team? If so, shame, shame, shame.

Let me be clear. I have nothing but praise and thanks for the SBS Team. As everyone has pointed out, they are underfunded leading to being understaffed. SBS 2003 and now R2 WAS (emphasis on WAS) an incredible, wonderful product that was far superior to anything we had seen with SBS (I have been a user and supporter of SBS since day one) BUT...

Sharepoint 3.0 - unavailable for all practical purposes

Exchange 2007 - nope

Frontpage????

WAIT is never an appropriate answer to a REAL PROBLEM. As an SBS user and VAR, I am feeling more and more marginalized. A second-class citizen in the MS community? Absolutely.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Neil Marshall — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:13:10 GMT

Anyone had this issue. Documents over 300Mb in sharepoint when trying to export them to file using explorer view the progress bar appears then disappears but the file is not moved. No error messages appear. Server is SBS 2003 with SQL 2005 installed.

Thanks

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Rick B — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:56:21 GMT

Has anyone found a "simple" way to access WSS 3 from RWW (preferred method) or from SSL? I'm installing this new SBS box in my environment and really don't see the point starting off in WSS 2 when WSS 3 is so much more advanced. I don't use inbound faxes so that isn't an issue.

I think as a group we need to find the easiest way possible to document a solution. I can't believe there isn't a solution. I saw one solution out there in 5 parts but frankly that seemed very risky. I'm simply looking for a way to get WSS 3 to work via SSL and have the company web link on RWW take you to the WSS 3 site. I've got to believe this is possible. I see it being a very popular question.

Any real solutions out there? Especially for a new installation?

Rick

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Vic Oson — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:35:13 GMT

David,

First, thanks for all the time you spend helping all of us.

I more or less need a confirmation, I've done the side-by-side install, but my SPS 3.0 alerts are not working, is this one of the limitations and does anyone know of a work around. Basically, my OUTBOUND emails are not getting out.

Thanks again

Vic

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Nalaka — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:20:02 GMT

Is there a way, in which you install WSS 3.0 on a completly separete windows 2003 standalone server in a SBS 2003 network. and how can you get the company website to point to that.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Russ Roberts — Tue, 15 May 2007 08:32:29 GMT

I managed to install Office Forms Server 2007 on Small Business Server 2003 without breaking Companyweb functionality. It was a bit quirky, here's how: 1. Ensure Sharepoint 2.0 SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2 and SBS 2003 SP1 are already installed. 2. Download and install .NET Framework 3.0. 3. Download and install WSS 3.0. 4. Perform Windows Updates. This may update WSS 3.0. 5. In IIS Manager STOP every website. 6. Install Office Forms Server 2007. 7. Create a new Web Application using SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration. When creating the Site Collection use http://ServerName:PortName and DO NOT put anything else in the URL (such as http://ServerName:PortName/sites/SiteName) otherwise you will not be able to publish from InfoPath 2007. 8. Delete the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 default Web site. 9. Under "InfoPath Forms Services" --> "Manage the Web Service proxy" and Enable (tick) both boxes. 9. Start the Default Site and Companyweb. Refer to SBSWSSv3.doc for more details on Steps 6 and 7.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

David Overton — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:51:35 GMT

One quick comment about running SPS on SBS. SPS does not mix well with Exchange Server, so it is not a supported scenario. You might be able to get away with it if you don't load the legacy compatiblity tools.

ttfn

David

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

David Overton — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:47:32 GMT

Matt,

if you use host headers then the site can not be secured by SSL. And the idea is not that you move the WSS v2 site to v3, unless you don't want e-mail alerts, fax integration or built in wizards working.

You could open a VPC with Wss v2 installed, import your sites and then upgrade and export and import back into your new WSS.

ttfn

David

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

David Overton — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:36:05 GMT

Lee,

your comments are correct - if you load WSS v3.0 onto a 2nd server then you will not see the issues documented here.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Matt — Sat, 12 May 2007 10:30:23 GMT

The big question is though......

Once you have successfully installed WSS3.0 on your SBS 2003 box - how do you get an existing site - in ver 2.0 format across to the new wss 3.0??

SMigrate - no!

stsadm - no!

So how??

It seems that unless you tke the whole wss 2.0 onto a spare server and upgrade it and break wss 2.0 - then backup and restore back to the live server there really isn't another way??

Or did I miss that essential piece of information??

What can I do??

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Matt — Sat, 12 May 2007 10:26:36 GMT

I read a lot of stuff regarding ports like '4444' for accessing the site - which I find really painful.

We use host headers to get around this, and additional entries to our public dns records....

thus staff.myweb.com

intranet.myweb.com

and make these entries to the IIS

Works a treat.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Matt — Sat, 12 May 2007 10:24:10 GMT

If you have a problem with the Sharepoint wizard - configuration failed - the following got me past it.

Un-install WSS 3.0

Re-boot (it asked me to)

Re-Install wss 3.0 with Side by Side install with Server Farm

Configuration (even though I do not use a farm)

Once finished, run configuration wizard

Select Create New Sharepoint Database option on first dialog

In server name field enter "server_name\microsoft##ssee"

In Database name "SharePoint_Config" (This was defaulted in mine)

accept all other defaults.

Got past step 2 and finished successfully.... finally!!

see forums.techarena.in/showthread.php for the full thread.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

SonicMoleChaser — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:36:43 GMT

One question that I have not been able to find an answer to is this: I want to upgrade (or at least co-install) sharepoint server 2007 enterprise on my SBS 2k3 r2, what are the pitfalls I should be aware of (if it is even possible)?

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Lee — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:29:06 GMT

I'm with Trevor Green's idea that he posted earlier:

As far as I can tell all of the comments regarding the broken functionality in Sharepoint Services 3.0 when installing on a SBS machine are isolated to a single server environment. Has anyone installed SS3.0 on a seperate windows 2003 (not sbs server). If you do is the email integration still broken? Can SS3.0 utlized Exchange and SQL 2005 on an SBS server if it is running from a separate server?

If so this may be a solution for me as I can buy another server and offline file and print sharing in conjuntion with SS3.0 and leave my SBS server for email, sql, and domain control.

Does anyone know if this could be used as a workaround?

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Eddie — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:25:38 GMT

Sorry for my earlier rant. I actually love SBS2003, there's just some stability issues to me. I've done alot of SBS stuff with small companies and the technology works.

I did yet even more research on my WSSv3 problem. Since i'm not running SQL 2005, WSSv3 is installing SQL2005Express. Apparently my issue has something to do with the credentials between sharepoint SQLexpress. I'm trying a bunch of things right now. Anymore insight would be useful.

re: Loading Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSSv3) onto SBS 2003

Eddie — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:32:31 GMT

Can anyone tell me where the databases are? I seem to be having an authentication issue when trying to configure WSSv3 on SBS2003. I've looked in my enterprise manager and can't see anything that resembles WSSv3. Funny that i'm getting this error. I AM logged in as the administrator, and that account created everything.