This document is a general index that outlines the contents of a Windows SharePoint Services Operations Guide provided by the Computer Information Agency. It contains 19 chapters that cover topics such as installing and configuring WSS, site settings, templates, search, add-ons, troubleshooting, prerequisites and security. The guide is provided as-is and the author cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information. Users are advised that any work on production systems carries business risks and agree to not hold the author responsible for any issues that may arise from using the guide.

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Chapter 1 - Introduction
1.1 About
1.2 Reason
1.3 Acknowledgments
1.4 Aim
1.5 Why WSS v3?
1.6 What does MOSS offer that WSS v3 doesn’t offer?
1.7 What does WSS v3 offer that SharePoint V2 doesn’t?
1.8 So what’s in this Guide?
1.9 Links
1.10 Videos
1.11 Conclusion

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Chapter 2 – Product Features
2.1 Scope
2.2 WSS v3 Overview
2.3 Previous Versions
2.4 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
2.5 Prerequisites
2.6 Intranet or Extranet?
2.7 Databases
2.8 Web sites
2.9 Using
2.10 Outlook 2007
2.11 Recommended reading
2.12 Conclusion

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Chapter 3 – Installing Windows SharePoint 3.0 onto Windows
Server 2003
3.1 Scope
3.2 Prerequisites
3.3 Installation
3.4 Conclusion

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Chapter 4 – Installing Windows SharePoint 3.0 onto Windows
Small Business Server 2003
4.1 Scope
4.2 Prerequisites
4.3 Installation
4.4 Replacing Companyweb
4.5 Conclusion

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Chapter 5 – Central Administration
5.1 Scope
5.2 Security
5.3 Operations
5.4 Application Management
5.5 Web applications general settings
5.6 Web Application List
5.7 Backup
5.8 Restore
5.9 Conclusion

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Chapter 6 – Site Settings
6.1 Scope
6.2 Accessing
6.3 People and Groups
6.4 Advanced permissions
6.5 Title, Description and Icon
6.6 Tree view
6.7 Site theme
6.8 Top link bar
6.9 Quick Launch
6.10 Save site as a template
6.11 Reset to site definition
6.12 Master page gallery
6.13 Site Content Types
6.14 Site column gallery
6.15 Site template gallery
6.16 List Template Gallery
6.17 Web Part Gallery
6.18 Workflows
6.19 Regional Settings
6.20 List and Libraries
6.21 Usage Report

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6.22 User Alerts
6.23 RSS
6.24 Search Visibility
6.25 Sites and Workspaces
6.26 Site features
6.27 Delete this Site
6.28 Site Collection recycle bin
6.29 Site Collection features
6.30 Site Hierarchy
6.31 Portal Site Connection
6.32 Sub-site settings
6.33 Conclusion

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Chapter 7 – Migration and Upgrades
7.1 Scope
7.2 Prerequisites
7.3 Migration
7.4 In place upgrade
7.5 File Migration
7.6 SBS 2008 Migration
7.7 Stsadm export/import
7.8 Conclusion

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Chapter 8 – Database Operations
8.1 Scope
8.2 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Embedded Edition (SSEE)
8.3 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
8.4 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition
8.5 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard
8.6 Relocating Databases
8.7 Migrating to new SQL Version
8.8 Shrinking log files
8.9 Installing SQL 2008 on Windows Server 2008 R2
8.10 Recreating Search database
8.11 Checking and fixing SQL database
8.99 Conclusion

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Chapter 9 – Advanced configuration
9.1 Scope
9.2 Configure usage analysis
9.3 Configure default outgoing e-mail settings
9.4 Configuring inbound emails
9.5 Configuring SSL
9.6 Web application general settings
9.7 RSS Feeds
9.8 Site tracking
9.9 Site columns
9.10 Additional library templates
9.11 TIFF IFilter in Windows Server 2008 R2
9.12 Configuring Windows Server 2008 R2 for WSS v3
9.99 Conclusion

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Chapter 10 – Templates
10.1 Scope
10.2 Using Site templates
10.3 Default Templates
10.4 Adding Templates to SharePoint
10.5 Installing Site Admin templates
10.6 Server Admin Templates
10.7 Saving entire site as a template
10.8 Conclusion

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Chapter 11 – Search
11.1 Scope
11.2 Prerequisites
11.3 Basics
11.4 Ensuring the search is enabled
11.5 Indexing Acrobat PDF’s
11.6 Indexing Office 2007 documents
11.7 Manual Full Crawl
11.8 Microsoft Search Sever Express 2008
11.9 Indexing .MSG files
11.10 Conclusion

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Chapter 12 – Add ons
12.1 Scope
12.2 Colour Calendars
12.3 Calendar reminders in Outlook
12.4 Offline Reader
12.5 Pentalogic SharePoint Reminder Service
12.6 Lytebox
12.7 Access Checker web part
12.8 What’s New web part
12.9 Copy and Paste add-on
12.10 Enhanced site actions add-on
12.11 Add Google maps
12.12 QDiscussion View
12.13 Cross site lookups
12.14 Chatterbox
12.15 Conclusion
12.99 Add on providers

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Chapter 13 – Troubleshooting
13.1 Scope
13.2 Default Directory
13.3 Content Databases
13.4 Registry
13.5 SharePoint v2 backup
13.6 WSS v3 command line backup
13.7 WSS v3 command line restore
13.8 Exporting and importing a site
13.9 Renaming a site
13.10 DotNet 3
13.11 Microsoft Virtual PC
13.12 Template size limitation
13.13 Locking a site
13.14 Version
13.15 Diagnostic logging
13.16 Event logs
13.17 Deleting configuration database
13.18 Site is not assigned to an indexer
13.19 Slow launch
13.20 Uploading multiple documents
13.21 Edit in datasheet without Microsoft Office

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13.22 Adjusting the !New icon
13.23 SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3
13.24 Event ID error messages 10016 and 10017
13.25 SharePoint Log Viewer
13.26 Spreadsheet import issues
13.27 Event ID 2436
13.28 Uninstall SharePoint from SBS 2008
13.29 Reinstall SharePoint on SBS 2008
13.30 SBS SharePoint Exchange server configuration
13.98 Troubleshooting links
13.99 Conclusion

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Chapter 14 – Prerequisites
14.1 Scope
14.2 Creating a self signed SSL Certificate
14.3 Dot Net 3
14.4 Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express
14.5 Determining whether the SharePoint instance has been upgraded
14.6 Disabling Full-Text Searching in WSS v2
14.7 Configuring Windows 2008 for WSS v3
14.8 Conclusion

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Chapter 15 – Security
15.1 Scope
15.2 Security
15.3 Default WSS v3 Groups
15.4 Adding users to WSS v3
15.5 WSS v3 permissions
15.6 WSS v3 Groups
15.7 Enabling anonymous site access
15.8 SharePoint elements security
15.9 Conclusion

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Chapter 16
16.1 Scope
16.2 Connecting to Outlook
16.3 Creating linked fields
16.4 Configuring a basic workflow
16.5 Displaying an updating spreadsheet
16.6 Taking files offline with Outlook 2007
16.7 Creating a wiki and linking with Outlook 2007
16.8 Mapping a Network Place
16.9 Working with Picture Libraries
16.10 Implementing shared OneNote notebooks
16.11 Upload documents to a SharePoint document library
16.12 Conclusion