"Jolly Student" <jolly@joy.com> wrote in message
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> Dear Colleagues:
>
> This is such an SQL newbie question its not even funny. To begin with,
> please forgive my informality as well as my lack of any specific error
> messages, etc.. . I think the questions are academic (the specific error
> messages and notes are strewn about my desk at work).
>
> Okay, so here I am, I have a shiny new Windows 2003 Advanced server. So I
> want to set up a tiny sharepoint team services site, simple enough. Its
the
> lightweight version that is
>
> included in the Front Page 2002 CD and pooft, instant sharepoint and badda
> bing, you have a small website that small workgroups can use. Please note,
> this is not a super confidential eyes only website, so if I had lax MSDE
> security, it would not keep me awake at night.
>
> So I download the MSDE from Microsoft and realize that I need to provide a
> password for the sa account. A switch after setup.exe.
>
> First, is there a way that I can forego this password, that is to say,
that
> there is a way for me to install MSDE without a service account password.
>
> I provided the password, the install went great, but now I have issues
> associating the sharepoint services site to the MSDE. Obviously, the MSDE
> needs to know that sharepoint team services is a good boy.
>
> My problem is that I do not see any configuration options in the small
MSDE
> engine, so the question here is, other than going to SQL 2000 full blown
> where I can tweak things, is how to I tell MSDE that
>
> the team services site, via IIS 6 (running in IIS5 mode) is okay to use
it.
>
> Ideally, my goal would be to install MSDE without having to provide a
> password, but any advice that could be given would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger
>
>