Hi all,
Just thought I'd share a little experience I just had with setting up a medium sized MOSS farm. The topology was 1xIndex server, 2xWFE (NLB'd), 2xSQL (Clustered). The install went trouble free but then it came to configuring the farm and adding the servers to the farm, creating the SSP, etc. The domain I was installing onto was named something like domain.zone1 (notice the period) so I went ahead and created my various service accounts for the farm. Upon running the configuration wizard I went ahead and entered in the various service account details as domain.zone1\username. All went well. I added all the servers to the farm, tested the topology and it was still sweet. Then it came time to create the SSP..... I got through creating the SSP Admin and MySite web sites and when it went to create the SharedServiceProvider I got the error "Windows NT or User group 'domain.zone1\username' not found".....aaarrggghhhhh!! After some google'ing (or live searching for us MS preferred folk) I found out that if you have a domain that is not just one word, i.e you have a period in it, then when you run the configuration wizard you MUST NOT use the FQDN, it must be the NetBIOS name. So I blew away the farm and started over again but this time entered the username as zone1\username and all worked well. Lost a good days effort but I'll know better for next time. Now I just have to complete the install for domain.zone2 and get the two zones talking :-) Enjoy!! Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
