Hardware and Software Requirements

You must use a minimum of two servers to use RapPort to deploy a SharePoint Portal Server workspace. You can use a single server as the RapPort server and the template server. You also need at least one destination server. However, you can modify this architecture by creating multiple template servers, regional RapPort servers, and potentially dozens of destination servers.

The following table shows the recommended hardware capacity in relation to SharePoint Portal Server recommendations.

Capacity Recommendations

Server Type Hardware Recommendation

The RapPort server. This server experiences moderate load.

  • 800-megahertz (MHz) processor minimum recommended.
  • 512 megabytes (MB) minimum of RAM recommended.
  • 10 gigabytes (GB) minimum of available disk space. The drive must be formatted as NTFS file system.
If combined with the template server:
  • 800 MHz dual processors minimum recommended.
  • 512 MB minimum of RAM recommended.
  • 20 GB minimum of available disk space. The drive must be formatted as NTFS file system.

The template server. This server experiences minimal user activity.

  • 500 MHz processor minimum recommended.
  • 256 MB minimum of RAM recommended.
  • 10 gigabytes GB minimum of available disk space. The drive must be formatted as NTFS file system.

The destination server. This server experiences variable user activity depending on the number of workspaces.

To estimate destination server capacity, see Chapter 7, Planning Server Capacity.

RapPort is an application designed to run on a computer running SharePoint Portal Server. Consequently, you must meet the requirements for SharePoint Portal Server in addition to those for RapPort. For more information about these requirements, see Chapter 11, Installing SharePoint Portal Server. RapPort has three types of requirements—the system requirements for the RapPort servers; requirements for client computers; and requirements of the corporate infrastructure.

RapPort Software Requirements

All servers that participate in the RapPort deployment require the following configuration:

  • Microsoft Windows® 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server operating system, and Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later.
  • Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001
  • Hot fixes as specified in Chapter 11, "Installing SharePoint Portal Server"
  • Static IP address for the destination server(s)

Client Requirements for Using the RapPort Request Wizard

In order to run the RapPort Setup Wizard, the client computer will require the following configuration:

  • Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later.
  • Internet Explorer 5.5 or later. Microsoft Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript) support is required. This is included in the default installation of Internet Explorer 5.
  • Microsoft Office XP

    or

  • Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 and MSXML3 SP1. You can download a copy of MSXML3 SP1 from http://msdn.microsoft.com/.

Infrastructure Dependencies

RapPort is dependent upon several infrastructure components in order to provision portals. These include:

  • Name resolution services: Windows Internet Naming Service/Domain Name Server (WINS/DNS)
  • Microsoft Active Directory directory service.
  • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service. This is a Windows 2000 Server component.

For client and server environments that differ from the configuration described in this chapter, revisions to the RapPort source code will be necessary. For example, if you do not use Active Directory to manage user objects, you must modify the Request Wizard to accommodate this change. For detailed information about the application structure, see Appendix B.

For a list of required service packs, or other required items not specified in this section, see the Readme file in the Tools\RapPort directory on the Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server Resource Kit CD.

Do not create any workspaces on the destination server during installation of SharePoint Portal Server.



Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server 2001 Resource Kit
Microsoft SharePoint(TM) Portal Server 2001 Resource Kit (Examples & Explanations Series)
ISBN: 0735615624
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 231

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