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Despite these wordy warning’s
the installation of SPS on an Exchange 2000 machine is rather
straightforward. With Standard Edition, you do not have the ability to
create a non-MAPI Public Folder store, which is the heart of Exchange
2000 and SPS HTTP development. When the installation routine determines
you are indeed running Exchange 2000 Standard Edition, it installs an
additional Storage Group called SharePoint Portal Server Group and a
store called SharePoint Portal Server Store. The setup routine also
installs the SharePoint Portal Server Service and several libraries
needed for Dashboard and Portal processing, not to mention the SPS ASP
files. It also replaces the Exchange 2000 search engine with the much
improved SPS engine. Towards the end of installation, another warning
reminds you of the disk space required when indexing many or large
items.
 From
the Exchange System Manager, this database appears as a normal store.
You can browse through the folders and even view their sizes and
associated rights.
As you can see from the
graphic, the SPS installation has extended the ability of the
information store to use another store. While this store cannot be
replicated to another SharePoint Portal Server, you can replicate the
content to an Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server. However, the benefit of
such a replication is not obvious since a restoration would require IIS
Metabase modifications as well as other specialized configuration
changes.
In order to properly back up
the SPS workspaces however, you must follow a completely
different process using the Msdmback script. For
details on this process, the Microsoft Web
site includes a support article on SPS
backup procedures (search for article reference no. Q281413). I also
recommend their article (reference no. Q300672) for information on the
backup and restoration of the IIS Metabase, since the workspaces are
provided using IIS virtual directories. The creation of a new workspace
in SPS creates new virtual directories in IIS.
The directory named Article in my example screen shot represents
the new workspace I created in SPS. Within that
virtual directory, directories for Portal, Dashboards and Forms
are created.
The WebDAV schema is contained
within the folder structure of the Workspaces and the Portal Server
store, so no additional backup or restore procedures are required for
the schema.
Be careful about trying to use
the Exchange System Manager tools with SPS stores and settings as SPS
sets specific configurations on the items. Another application layer
exists above this one to permit or restrict access to the workspaces and
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