When you install SharePoint V3.0 onto SBS 2003 using the standard “side-by-side” installation you will find the following locations in use :
:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Data\Applications\\Config – contains global configuration files used by the search engine, like language specific noise word and thesaurus files along with the thesaurus schema XML file.
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\SERVER12\Server Setup Controller – critical setup files that might be needed later fro re-running certain aspects of the setup and configuration wizard.
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN – executables like stsadm and prescan.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS – administrative pages address by the _layouts relative path on the Sharepoint sites.
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES – is the _images realtive path for images addressable anywhere in Sharepoint sites.
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