Sharepoint

 

To WSS or not to WSS...

I wouldn't recommend putting all of that data into your companyweb site.  Storing all of that critical data as blobs in sql server (or worse yet, MSDE) on a WSS site would make me incredibly nervous.  The data is in the database, not in the file system structures.  In an SBS environment the technological leap in thinking required to completely understand how to properly manage, backup, restore individual files, etc. in a sharepoint system is simply so different from the traditional ways of thinking about those processes that I can't recommend it.  Company photos?  Absolutely.  HR Forms?  Perfect.  Shared workspaces for working on a project?  Ideal.  Gigabytes of user and company data in companyweb?  Never. (Source: Matt on EE)

My Experiences Learning SharePoint

This stuff is not necessarily tested or complete. It's just my notes while playing around with SharePoint in a virtual environment.

Some links on installing SQL 2010 for SharePoint: (none of which are tested yet)

I had some problems using domain credentials for the service accounts during installation. I did manage to get it working using a local account, some articles suggest to do this and then change it in services.msc. In the end, though, I was wasting too much time on this stupid issue and decided just to use the domain Administrator account. I'll go back and figure this account stuff out properly at a later date (TODO).

The following articles may help with the service accounts issue: