SharePoint Installation and Configuration

Probably the most complete walkthrough I’ve seen so far of Installing and Configuring a SharePoint deployment is by Rodney Viana.

He’s done a video walkthrough in 2 parts;

1. SharePoint Installation Part 1
2. SharePoint Installation Part 2

SharePoint Post Installation Steps for Trusted Sites and User Authentication

Having run the Products & Technologies Configuration Wizard, you’ll want to run up Central Administration to complete the configuration of your SharePoint installation. Depending on your environment you might need to perform these 2 additional steps before you launch Central Administration, otherwise you might find that IE starts complaining about trusted sites and you get the nag prompt to enter your Network credentials.

These instructions are valid for IE7 and IE8.

Add the SharePoint Central Administration site to the list of trusted sites

1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2. On the Security tab, select the “Trusted Sites” zone and click the Sites button.
3. Clear the “Require server verification (https:) checkbox for all sites in this zone” check box.
4. In the “Add this Web site to the zone” box, type the URL for the SharePoint Central Administration site, and then click Add.
5. Select the “Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone” check box.
6. Click Close.
7. Click OK.

Configure User Authentication settings for Trusted Sites

1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2. On the Security tab, select the “Trusted Sites” zone and click the Custom Level button.
3. In the Settings list box, under “User Authentication” (right at the bottom), click “Automatic logon with current username and password” or “Automatic logon only in Intranet zone”.
4. Click OK.
5. Click OK.

13 Part Series on SharePoint Deployment via Features

André Vala has a great series on developing features for deployment to SharePoint.

Office SharePoint Server Security Account Requirements

This is a great doc from the Office site which you can use to help plan your SharePoint / MOSS service and content access accounts.

Update: Configure Sharepoint (MOSS) Single Sign-On

As an update to my post about Configuring the Sharepoint MOSS Single Sign-On Service, I’ve discovered that the SSOADMIN user (the user account which the SSO service is run under) requires that the user account is granted the “Logon as Service” permission directly, rather than it being inherited by Group memberships or some other means.