Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2007 Bible

Installing Your SharePoint Farm Components

After you have chosen the right product and topology for your organization, you can proceed with installing the necessary prerequisite components and SharePoint. By the end of this section, you should have successfully installed SharePoint.

Installing prerequisite components

Several prerequisites must be installed before proceeding with your SharePoint installation. If any of these components are not installed at the time of the SharePoint installation, the installation will fail.

Checking the hardware and software requirements

SharePoint requires a dual-processor computer (single-server installation) with 2.5 GHz of speed or higher and 1GB of RAM (2GB of RAM is recommended). The servers must be running Windows 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter Edition) with Service Pack 1 (SP1). If you are installing in a farm scenario, your front-end Web servers can also be running Windows 2003 Web Edition with SP1. Your servers must be using the NTFS file system. SharePoint will run on both 32-bit and 64-bit processors with the corresponding version of Windows Server.

Note

You should not recommended installing SharePoint on a domain controller for a production environment. Although it is possible, it complicates the installation and maintenance and therefore creates unnecessary difficulty.

Installing Internet Information Services

If your front-end server(s) has not already been configured with Internet Information Services (IIS), you must ...