Danish Hussain

I was deploying moss in a farm environment and faced strange issues. My configuration was a webserver, a query server and a database server. I deployed sharepoint on a webserver and join index server in farm. But when I tried to start services on index server the status seems to be stucked at "starting". I tried to disconnecting and reconnecting index server in farm but problem seems to be persitent. I tried running following command stsadm -o spsearch -action stop to stop search service and then issueing stsadm.exe -o execadmsvcjobs and strangely my problem get resolved. I don't know the reason as my timer service was working fine before issuing above commands. I am not sure about the issue so any comments will be really helpful in this regards

Following post is really helpful for configuring simple farm environment on share point portal server 2007 or MOSS. I believe any novice person can start deployment reading this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262243.aspx Following define a specific scenario deployment for share point server 2007 with three separate servers. 1. Database Server (SQL Database) 2. Share point Web Front End (Web server, Central Administration, Query Server) 3. Indexing Server (Indexing Server) Please follow these steps. 1. Install SQL Server on Database Server. 2. Install Share point Portal Server 2007 on Share point Web Front End with following consideration a. Select Advance option b. Select Complete in Server Type c. Do not run Share point Product and Technology Configuration Wizard 3. Install Share point Portal Server 2007 on Indexing Server with following consideration a. Select Advance option b. Select Complete in Server Ty...