As we know, working with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 does not require Windows Server anymore, although this approach is not officially supported by Microsoft. You can refer to a solution from Bamboo Solutions to make it possible, that can be found here. Pak Risman has posted about that as well at this link. I won't talk about how to do that in this post. Instead, I talk about few next steps after WSS has been successfully deployed on Vista.
Currently, I'm preparing WSS demo. Instead of deploying WSS on Windows Server and run it on Virtual PC, it would be great if I can present WSS directly on my Vista. So, I follow the walkthrough carefully and after about a half an hour WSS 3.0 is successfully installed on my Vista without any errors during the installation process. Cool...
SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration
OK, it's time to do more with newly installed WSS. First thing first, I have to Create Web Application so that I can create site and/or site collection. So I click Application Management tab and what I find, there is no Create or Extend Web Application menu. How can I create a web application if the menu is not available.
It's time to ask my favorite search engine. Looks like some folks experience the same problem, but I can't find comprehensive solution (CMIIW). A folk suggest to create web application using stsadm command from Command Prompt. So I open Command Prompt at working directory C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN and start type stsadm command. Unfortunately, there's no operation to create web application. Only createweb and createsite those are available, no createwebapp. Wew...
After more searching, I finally find a site called STSADM Custom Extensions at this link, that allow me to do more with stsadm. The site also tell how to create Web Application using stsadm at this link. So, what I do next are these:
1. Download STSADM Custom Extensions at this link. You'll get this solution file: Lapointe.SharePoint.STSADM.Commands.WSS.wsp
2. Add the solution file to WSS. I recommend using stsadm command instead of Solution Manager menu. The command is:
stsadm -o addsolution -filename "[FULLPATH\Lapointe.SharePoint.STSADM.Commands.WSS.wsp"
Change [FULLPATH] to your folder full path that contains the solution file
3. Deploy the solution
stsadm -o deploysolution -name lapointe.sharepoint.stsadm.commands.wss.wsp -local -allowgacdeployment
Now, the custom extension should be deployed. To make sure, from SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, click Operations > Solution Management. You should get:
And after typing stsadm command, you should find these extra operations.
Create Web Application
It's time to create Web Application. Still from command prompt,
stsadm -o gl-createwebapp -url http://your-url:9482 -directory "C:\your-desired-path" -port 9482 -ownerlogin "domain\youruser" -owneremail "****@***********" -databasename "SharePoint_TestWebApp" -donotcreatesite -description "SharePoint TestWebApp (9482)" -apidname "SharePoint TestWebApp" -apidtype configurableid -apidlogin "domain\youruser" -apidpwd "yourpassword"
Complete parameters can be found at: http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2007/10/create-web-application.html
After waiting for couple minutes, it say Operation completed successfully. Lets check it out. Back to SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, then click Application Management > Web application list. I got this: (at previous command, I use http://dyware-core:9482 as url parameter value)
That's it. Now I can continue my work to create site and more customizations.
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Saatnya sahur...