I spent a lot of time today arm wrestling with a SharePoint installation today and it struck me again how main pieces seem to have to work together to have the site function correctly. The site was running on a domain controller and the system was having AD problems so I had to demote the box and move the site. Even before I could move the site I had to change:
- Modify the local security policies to allow the SharePoint service account to logon as a service and batch job
- Re-enter the passwords for the applications pools in IIS
- Re-assign the SSL certs (Why? What does that have to do with being a DC?)
- Logon to the administration website and re-designate the search server for the site
That's a lot of moving parts that can break. A lot of this was not really covered in Microsoft articles or Microsoft KBs. I had to dig through a lot of generic ASP and .NET 2.0 articles and try to figure out if they would actually apply to SharePoint.
I hope that there isn't a radical difference between the current v3.0 SharePoint and whatever comes with Windows 2008 so that 3rd party documentation can keep up with it.
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