Although SharePoint Services are designed to be easy to use, it is a bit of a task of installing and fixing the initial server configuration. Fortunately, this is a work at once. To begin, you must first download the Microsoft SharePoint Services. You can get http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/default.mspx SharePoint Services download is a 34 MB self extracting, executable file.
To install SharePoint Services, download the file STSV2.EXE to an empty folder and double click it. This will cause Windows to decompress the contents of the file and start the setup program. When the installation wizard starts, accept the license agreement and click Next to continue. The next screen prompts you to perform a typical installation or if you prefer to create a server farm. For demonstration purposes, select the Typical installation option and click Next. Setup will now confirm that you are about to install the SharePoint Services and the destination drive has enough free space. Click the Install button to begin installing the necessary files
As the installation progresses, you might notice a message indicating that Setup is the configuration of Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine. Windows SharePoint Services rely on SQL Server. As we all know, however, SQL Server can be expensive. To help make the services of SharePoint (and other applications) more affordable, Microsoft has included a watered down version of SQL Server in Windows Server 2003. It is called Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine or MSDE. If no SQL Server installed on the server before you install Windows SharePoint Services, the installation program automatically configures SharePoint Services to use MSDE. Although it works well enough MSDE, SQL Server provides much better performance in environments where more than five people will be using the Windows SharePoint Services at the same time.
