Chapter 4: Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2010
What’s In This Chapter?
- Running prerequisiteinstaller.exe and setup.exe
- Avoiding standalone installation
- Running the Config Wizard
- Running the Central Administration Wizard
- Handling post-setup configuration
- Installing SharePoint 2010
Please read this chapter! It has become commonplace for IT professionals and consultants to just “wing” the installation and configuration of software, figuring if there are any issues along the way a quick trip to Bing will get them squared away. While this may be true, it is hardly considered best practice.
This chapter walks you through all of the steps necessary to get your users a SharePoint site they can access. Starting with installing the software and then working through running the two configuration wizards, you will be on your way. Once you are done with the wizards, you will make some additional changes to Central Administration. With all of the knobs turned and the buttons pressed, you will then create a web application and site collection. At that point you are ready to turn over SharePoint to the users. Then there is nothing to do except cross your fingers and hope for the very best. Or if you are the proactive type you can check out Chapter 15 where monitoring is covered.
It is interesting to look back over the past five years and see that SharePoint911's most popular service has been performing server audits—essentially, walking through the install and configuration steps ...
