SMB Thoughts by Brian Williams

SharePoint seems to be a very popular topic amongst our local user group, I think we’re all trying to ensure we understand how to use and deploy the product. I’ve been testing internally for a couple of months but I’m cautiously deploying to clients. If you’re looking to get started with SharePoint 3 on your SBS 2003 server here are some great links:

David Shrag’s instructions on deploying SharePoint3
http://davidschrag.com/schlog/167/installing-wss-30-on-sbs-2003-standard

The official documentation for installing WSS3 on SBS:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0daafc81-efff-4f5b-a28a-8265f1e99f5b&displaylang=en

Additional information on installing WSS3 on SBS on the Official SBS Blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2006/11/30/wss-v3-0-installation-on-sbs-2003.aspx

Much more terrific information on WSS3 from Chad Gross’ Blog:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/cgross/archive/tags/WSS+_2F00_+Companyweb/default.aspx

Here’s a great step by step install of SharePoint 3 templates. 

http://alpesh.nakars.com/blog/installation-guide-for-wss-application-templates/