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Based on help, I have a short howto to install correctly windows sharepoint services with DNP :

1. Download and install WSS :

WSS SP2 Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B922B28D-806A-427B-A4C5-AB0F1AA0F7F9&displaylang=en

2. After installation you go to a configuration page in IE to setup WSS correctly :

3. Choose a Application pool for IIS : eg. "WSS"

4. Select a security account for this application pool: "NETWORK SERVICE is recommended"

5. Choose a security configuration: "NTLM"

6. Click OK to go to the second page.

7. You have to make the configuration DB to store all settings of WSS :

8. Instance name your SQL : eg. "HOST/MYSQL" (CAUTION : Check in DNP (serveradmin) at configuration -> servers -> mssql  server if the external and internal address contains also this instance name, otherwhise you will get errors when you make a sharepoint site)

9. choose a db name eg. WSS

8. Connection method : windows authentication or with sa pwd.

9. After that don't change anything else and click OK.

10. Sharepoint service is active and works also with DNP

That's it! Succes!

Regards,

Jaan.

Hi there,

Has anyone had any success installing SharePoint using a remote database? We have it working on one of our servers, which has a LAN to the SQL server, but all other servers fail to create a sharepoint site citing the error:

  
The server instance specified was not found. Please specify the server's address and port.

I can only think that Sharepoint needs an instance name (ie the database needs to be local) for it to work on DNP. The other servers sharepoint works fine by the way when configured manually.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Mark
 

Got this sorted as previously I was trying to use a remote server to install sharepoint on it.The old settings were still in our system and once removed the sharepoint sites started to work properly.

Cheers,

Mark