*Warning DO NOT upgrade existing WSS 2.0 site to WSS 3.0!! Install WSS 3.0 side by side**This is not supported by MicrosoftPrerequisites:
- Download WSS 3.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d51730b5-48fc-4ca2-b454-8dc2caf93951&displaylang=en
- Download Adobe PDF IFilter v6.0 http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611
Step 1 – Installation of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- After downloading WSS 3.0 launch SharePoint.exe-*Select “No, do not upgrade at this time
- Click on the “Data Location” Tab (click “Browse” to select the location of the data)
- Click Install Now
- When complete make sure the “Run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard now” is checked and click Close
- Click Next and accept the Service Restart warning message and let it finish all 10 tasks
- Click Finish
Step 2 – Change the new site to resolve “intranet” during transition
- Add a hostname in DNS with the name Intranet and the IP of the SBS (ping intranet to confirm name resolution)
- Open SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration, and click on the Application Management tab.
- Under the SharePoint Web Application Management section, click on Create or extend Web application.
- Click to Extend existing web application.
- On the page that opens, click on the Web Application field and select Change Web Application.
- On the page that opens, select your SharePoint Web Application.
- In the IIS Web Site section, select the option to create a new web site.
- Enter a description for the new site (e.g. Intranet)
- In the Port field, enter 80
- In the Host Header field, enter intranet
- Click OK.
- Verify that http://intranetopens/opens the new SharePoint Site-Return to the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration and click on the Application Management tab.
- Under the SharePoint Web Application Management section, click on Remove SharePoint from IIS WebSite-In the Web Application section, verify that the web application is http://servername
- In the Deletion Options section, verify that the IIS Website is set to SharePoint – 80 (Default)
- Select the option to Delete IIS Web sites-Click OK
- Open IIS Manager, expand [servername] and expand web sites. Select the default web site and click the Start button
