Server Types (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0)

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SMTP and DNS Server

The SMTP and DNS server is running Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4 (SP4) and all hotfixes or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (English) with SMTP and DNS services configured.

Front-End Web Servers

Front-end Web servers are Hewlett-Packard DL380 G2 servers running the following software:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (English), with Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and Microsoft ASP.NET enabled

  • Windows SharePoint Services (English)

  • Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack (German) and Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack (Japanese)

  • Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components

  • Virus Scanner: McAfee Portal Shield 1.0 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (You can use any virus scanner compatible with Windows SharePoint Services.)

Terminal Services, Debugging, and Administration Server

This server is configured the same way as the front-end Web servers, with the addition of Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 .NET Enterprise Developer (English).

Backup Server

The backup server runs the following software:

  • Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4 (SP4) and all hotfixes or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (English)

  • Veritas Backup Exec 8.x for Windows Servers

  • SQL Server 2000 and all service packs (version number is 8.0.780)

HTML Transformation Service Server (Optional)

A dedicated server was configured to provide the HTML transformation service. The server was running the following software:

  • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (English)

  • Microsoft Office 2003 HTML Viewer (English)

  • Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 (English)Office must be installed by using the command line and special switches. For details, see the "Installing and Configuring HTML Transformation Service (Optional)" section later in this paper.

Active Directory Servers

Two Hewlett-Packard DL380G2 servers run Windows 2000 Server Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 4 (SP4) and all hotfixes or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (English), with Active Directory and DNS services enabled.

Servers Running SQL Server

Four Hewlett-Packard DL580 servers running SQL Server are configured as two active/passive clusters, connected to Hewlett-Packard SAN hardware. For each of these servers, the following software is installed:

  • Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4 (SP4) and all hotfixes or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (English)

  • Hewlett Packard SAN software and backup agent (Contact your hardware vendor for the detailed SAN software information.)

  • SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition and all service packs (version number is 8.0.780)

  • Cluster service (Part of Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition)