MOSS 2007 – Configure Incoming email

Reading through these 2 technet articles, you get the main idea on how to set this up

Plan incoming e-mail (Windows SharePoint Services)

and in here

Configure incoming e-mail settings (Windows SharePoint Services)

In Windows Server 2008 R2,  there are some steps that are different from the technet articles.  My environment is as follow:

First is to add the SMTP server feature.  Open Server Manager, add features, and select the SMTP Server

once you click on this, it will bring another dialog box, prompting you to add more role services

It seems that it requires the SMTP Server Tools from the Remote Server Administration Role, and also the ODBC Logging.

click Add required button and continue. Now click on the Next button on the features wizard.

On the confirmation screen you can verify these 2 new roles

Click install.

After the installation, Open IIS 7, and under the Features View, double-click SMTP Email.

Click on Apply.

Now go back to MOSS Central Administration and click on the Incoming e-mail settings task for the Administrator

On the item,  task, select the Action: Configure Incoming E-Mail Settings.

 

After you have configure the incoming email you can now receive emails on our SharePoint document libraries. Now you can follow the instructions on this article to get those emails inside your document library enable/configured email article.

How to configure a MOSS VPC Development image

On the Microsoft TechNet site, there is a couple of articles on how to set up a MOSS environment. Following those steps will give you a good environment.  However, I have found that there is not that much control over the naming of the databases.  This is fine, but then you have to come back and do some extra steps to rename them correctly.  These are the steps that I follow to avoid having to come back and do all of that work.

I have already configure a VPC image with Windows Server 2003, SQL Server, Visual Studio 2008, etc.  I have also set it up as a Domain Controller (DC) and create a couple of accounts (SharepointService, SQLService, etc).

There are instructions on TechNet on how to setup the SQL Server before setting the MOSS environment: Prepare the Database servers. Follow those steps.

Now start the MOSS setup, select the Advance installation

I choose to install the Web Front End, since it gives me the most flexibility

Once this step has finished running, this is a good point to rename the Content DB's.

Do not run the configuration wizard yet.

Uncheck and close this window. Now use the psConfig utility, which it is available on this location:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN

parameter	value
Server	MossOnlyAW
Domain	MOSSBSG
User	SharepointService
Password	*********
Config DB name	STS_Config
Admin Content DB name	STS_AdminContent

this is the parameters to configure the initial Databases

psconfig.exe
  -cmd configdb
  -create -server MossOnlyAW  
  -database STS_Config
  -user MOSSBSG\SharepointService
  -password <myPassword> 
  -admincontentdatabase STS_AdminContent

Run this from the command prompt window and you will get the following results:

SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard version 12.0.4518.101
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2005. All rights reserved.

Performing configuration task 1 of 3
Initializing SharePoint Products and Technologies configuration...

Successfully initialized the SharePoint Products and Technologies configuration

Performing configuration task 2 of 3
Creating the configuration database...

Successfully created the configuration database.

Performing configuration task 3 of 3
Finalizing the SharePoint Products and Technologies configuration...

Successfully completed the SharePoint Products and Technologies configuration.

Total number of configuration settings run: 3
Total number of successful configuration settings: 3
Total number of unsuccessful configuration settings: 0
Successfully stopped the configuration of SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Configuration of the SharePoint Products and Technologies has succeeded.

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>

now if you check your SQL server, you will see the 2 databases that were created, it also went and added that SharepointService account to the valid logins in your SQL Server.

Now go ahead and run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard. It will pick the databases that you have created, do not disconnect from this server farm:

I like to specify a port number that is easy to remember

Gotchas:  You might run into an error if the service account does not have enough rights:

Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The current identity (MOSSBSG\SharepointService) does not have write access to 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files'.

so open up this folder and add the SharepointService account to the list of  authorized users. Give this account access to modify.

Close the browser and re-open the Central Administration page. You can now start to configure your MOSS sites.