How To: send alert to distribution group in WSS 3.0

1. Go to Exchange server
2. Create a Distribution Group
3. Set Delivery Restriction to no authentication
4. Note the email address
5. Go to People and Groups
6. Add a domain group such as Domain Users
7. Edit E-Mail field with noted email address

now add alerts with this email address.

SQL Problem installing WSS 3.0 - 'min server memory':

weird error when installing WSS 3.0 (during SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard) with SQL 2005. to fix it so that wizard can complete, execute the following on the SQL server:

use master;
go
exec sp_configure 'min server memory','256';
reconfigure with override;