Installing Arabic Language Pack for MOSS 2007 over Windows Server 2008 

Windows 2008 Server does not accept installing the MOSS 2008 unless it is loaded with SP1, it is also obvious that the same thing goes for the Language Pack.

1- First download the language pack from this URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ar&FamilyID=2447426b-8689-4768-bff0-cbb511599a45
The file name is: "ServerLanguagePack.img"

2- Then download the SP1 for the language pack from this URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=ar&FamilyID=3a6c26fd-0beb-40d5-8cba-15164faab150
The file name is: "officeserverlp2007sp1-kb936984-x86-fullfile-ar-sa.exe"

The first file is a .img file, you need a software to extract this file like WinISO for example. The files and folders after extraction will look like this when you extract it to a folder that you know

Now as you see there is a folder called "Updates" but it is amost empty but from a "README.txt" file.

3- Now go to the SP1 folder where you downloaded it and you will notice it is a .exe file.

We need to extract this file t get the zipped file inside it. This cannot be done from a windows GUI interface, we need a command to do this.

4- To extract the "officeserverlp2007sp1-kb936984-x86-fullfile-ar-sa.exe", put it in a folder that you know - in my case it was on the "D:" root - for easier access. Then run the command line tool and type the extract command to another folder that you know, in my case it was "D:\ar". The command line looks like:
C:\>file.exe /extract:"C:/folder"

In my example it was D:\>officeserverlp2007sp1-kb936984-x86-fullfile-ar-sa.exe /extract:"D:\ar"

The extract confirmation window will appear, just check the check box and click the continue button

5- Now find the updates folder inside the extracted language pack files:

Copy and paste all the ten extracted files from the "officeserverlp2007sp1-kb936984-x86-fullfile-ar-sa.exe" inside the updates folder. The folder will be having a one "README.txt" file as the image below:

6- Now go back one folderu up to the root of the Language Pack extracted folder and sun the "setup.exe" file to start installing the Language Pack.

The "Terms and Conditions" dialogue bo will appear, check the check box and click the continue button

7- When the installation is done the finish installation box will appear, keeb the check box checked and click close

8- The "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard" will start. Click the "Next" button

The warning message appears, click "OK": 

The configuration process starts. As you notice this time the steps are 7 not 8 as usual

When the wizard finishes, click the "Finish" button

9- Now go to your site, from site actions menu choose "Create Site", or choose "Create" if you did not enable publishing feature, the choose "Sites and Workspaces" from create page

Now you will notice the language choice drop down before the site template choice box:

10- Choose the language that you want and then create you site.

Congratulations...

1.       Open up IIS and right-click on the Web Sites node and go to Properties. Click on the Service tab. As shown in FIGURE 1

1.       Check  compress application files checkbox

2.       Check  compress static files checkbox

3.       Go to the Web Service Extensions node. Right-click in the right pane, and click Add a new Web service extension

5.       Click on Add. Choose C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll (your path may be different, but that is doubtful), and click OK. Check the Set extension status to Allowed check box, and click OK.

6.       Open up Windows Explorer and go to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv. Find MetaBase.xml and make a copy (you can just highlight it and do a Ctrl-C, then a Ctrl-P to make a copy of MetaBase.xml). Now open up MetaBase.xml in a text editor.

7.        Find the <IIsCompressionScheme/> section. Be careful, there are two sections here: one for deflate and one for gzip. We want gzip so the Location attribute of the element will have the following value:   Location ="/LM/W3SVC/Filters/Compression/gzip"

9.       Final step is to do an IIS shutdown and restart by right-clicking in Internet Information Services node and then click All Tasks, Restart IIS. You can test at http://www.pipeboost.com, as shown in FIGURE 4.

SQL Server 2005 provides three main types of replication: snapshot, transactional, and Merge.
Publications and Articles
Articles: database object
Publication: SQL Server group’s articles from the same database in a unit called a publication.
Server Roles
You can configure a server as Publisher, Distributor, and/or Subscriber.

• The Publisher is the original owner of the information that is published.
• A Publisher is the only place where data can be modified.
  

The Distributor is responsible for managing the distribution database which stores replication status data, metadata, and, in some replication scenarios, the actual data that SQL Server replicates

A single database server instance can act as both the Publisher and the Distributor.

The server that then receives copies of the publication and provides the data to end users and applications is called the Subscriber.

Subscribers have a read-only copy of the database; in other configurations, you can update information in the Subscribers and replicate those changes back to the Publisher.

Push and Pull Subscriptions

With a push subscription, the Distributor copies the data to the Subscriber database. With a pull subscription, the Subscriber retrieves the data from the Distributor.

When your communication infrastructure has stable and permanent connections among replication servers, a push subscription offers the advantage of providing a central management point to all replication agents that manage the replication process. This results in less administrative overhead and easier troubleshooting procedures.

However, when the replication configuration includes many Subscribers, the distribution process for push subscriptions can tax the hardware resources of a Distributor.

Furthermore, servers or clients that connect on demand are better configured as pull subscriptions.

Replication Types

Snapshot replication the easiest replication type to understand because it is conceptually similar to a full backup and restore.

Transactional replication

It makes an initial complete copy of the data, and then all subsequent copies transfer modified data only.

Transactional replication uses the transaction log to apply to the destination data the same transactions performed on the source data. Because the same modifications are applied at both ends, the information is identical at the Publisher and the Subscriber.
This replication type is frequently used for transactional tables, such as an Order Details table in a retail database.

Merge replication

When your environment requires the ability to support simultaneous data modifications in the Publisher and Subscriber databases, merge replication offers a solution.

Replication Agents

SQL Server uses a group of programs called replication agents to execute the replication process.