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Essential SharePoint
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Essential SharePoint

by Jeff Webb
May 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
10h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Re-Extending Existing Sites

Installing Portal Server removes the association between existing virtual servers and SharePoint. You must re-extend each virtual server before the server and all of the sites it contains will begin working again. To re-extend a virtual server:

  1. From the SharePoint Central Administration page, click Extend or upgrade an existing virtual server complete list; and then click the name of the server. SharePoint displays the Extend Virtual Server page.

  2. Click Extend and create a content database. SharePoint displays Figure A-4.

    Set the application pool

    Figure A-4. Set the application pool

  3. Select the application pool you wrote down earlier in the "Recording Settings" section, but don't enter database information at this point—you'll re-establish the data connection later. For now, just accept the default content database server, enter a site owner and click OK.

  4. After SharePoint extends the site, click Windows SharePoint Services Configure Virtual Server Settings select the site name Manage content databases. SharePoint displays Figure A-5.

    Removing the default database

    Figure A-5. Removing the default database

  5. Click the database name (STS_servername_n) and select select Remove content database. SharePoint displays a warning. Click OK to close the warning; then click OK again to make the change.

  6. SharePoint returns you ...

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