Before installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, be sure you have reviewed the information in Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007. You can also find evaluation and planning guidance on the Before You Begin page on the Office SharePoint Server 2007 TechCenter (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=98564&clcid=0x409).

In this section:

• Downloadable book: Deployment and upgrade for Office SharePoint Server 2007

  These downloadable books contain the full set of content for deploying and upgrading Office SharePoint Server 2007 in Word document format for easy printing.

• Deployment worksheets for Office SharePoint Server 2007

  These worksheets are companion pieces for several topics in this deployment section.

• End-to-end deployment scenarios

  These topics take you step by step through the process of installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a stand-alone server, deploying in a simple server farm, or deploying in an environment in which database administrators create and manage databases.

• Deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a server farm environment

  These topics help you deploy in more complex server farm environment and configure all of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 services and features you need to make available in that server farm.

• Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007

  These topics help you plan, prepare, and perform an upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Office SharePoint Server 2007, or to migrate from a Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 application to Office SharePoint Server 2007.

You can also install Office SharePoint Server 2007 from the command line instead of using the wizard interface. The following technical reference topics can help you understand the options available for using Setup.exe, Psconfig.exe and the Config.xml file from the command line.

• Setup.exe command-line reference (Office SharePoint Server)

• Command-line reference for the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard (Office SharePoint Server)

• Config.xml reference (Office SharePoint Server)

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