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Outgoing e-mail

1. Open SharePoint central administration
2. Select System Settings and then Configure outgoing e-mail settings
3. Make it looks like that

In my case i configured an smpt server however if you have exchange server you can simply replace the Outbound SMTP Server field with the exchange server full name.

Diagnostic logging

1. Open SharePoint central administration
2. Select Monitoring and then Configure diagnostic logging
3. Make it looks like that

Configure usage and health data collection

1. Open SharePoint central administration
2. Select Monitoring and then Configure usage and health data collection
3. Make it looks like that

Configure file size limits (Optional)

Out of the box, SharePoint allows you to upload files up to 50MB in size and Excel Services allows you to view files as large as 10 MB in a browser. Our new farm setup increases the Excel Services limit to 50MB. You can change these settings even further if users will be publishing and interacting with larger files.

To increase Web Application limits:

1. Navigate to SharePoint 2010 Central Administration > Application Management > Manage Web Applications.
2. Select SharePoint-80 and then, on the Ribbon, select General Settings > General Settings.
3. Change the Maximum Upload Size setting to the MB limit you want to set. (The maximum allowed by SharePoint is 2047MB.)

1. Open SharePoint central administration
2. Select Configuration Wizards
3. Select "Walk me through the settings using this wizard" and Next
4. Make the form look like this

1. Wait a while tell the wizard change it works
2. After that you are promoted to create a new site collection
3. Enter the following data and then click ok

1. Congratulations you have just activated all SharePoint services

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Assign Permissions

Setup Admin and Fo-Dev-07-SP-Farm accounts must be assign the following roles in the sql server : dbcreator and securityadmin.

Open Start, Programs, Sql Server Management Studio

1. Connect to your Server Instance my case ( FO-DEVELOPER-07\GEMINIBI )
2. Pen the security / logins node
3. Located the Admin account if doesn’t exist create it
4. Right click properties / Server Roles
5. Check Security admin and dbcreator
6. Click ok
7. And then restart your server

Configure networking

At the end you need to configure networking if you are planning to deploy a farm with multiple SharePoint Server 2010 servers.

According to TechNet [1] you need to "ensure that SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 is updated to the required level and configured as follows":

SQL Server 2005: Local and remote connections are enabled and are configured to use the TCP/IP protocol.

SQL Server 2008: The TCP/IP protocol is enabled for the network configuration.

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If you installed sql server with Power pivot … You should skip this step and proceed to the next step Sql Server Configuration

Avoid DataBase name with guids

In order to avoid creating the SharePoint config and content databases with names having guids

I would recomend you to run a command line as administrator and write the following code

cd C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\BIN

psconfig -cmd configdb -create -server FO-DEVELOPER-07 -database FO_DEV_07_Wss_ADMIN_CONFIG -user

Fo-Dev-07-SP-Farm -password ****** -admincontentdatabase FO_DEV_07_Wss_ADMIN_CONTENT

Or make what ever names you would like to have for more information read this topic

SharePoint Installation Wizard

Click Start / All programs / Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products

SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard

1. Click Next , Click yes and choose to create a new server farm
2. Select create a new server farm
3. Enter the Database server my case ( FO-DEVELOPER-07\GEMINIBI ) and DB name
4. For the farm user enter : Fo-Dev-07-SP-Farm
5. Enter a passphrase to secure farm configuration data. It is also needed if you join a new server to the farm. "Password1" is a good example
6. Select a port : 55555 and a authentication provider : NTLM
7. Click Next and Install and finish the installation Process

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This topic is only for installing sql server without power pivot if you have already

Installed SQL server with power pivot by following the last step , you should skip this step and the next step SharePoint Configuration Wizard and proceed directly to the step

SQL Server Configuration

• Login as a server and domain controller administrator

If you installed visual studio 2010 before this step you will need to do the following

Create a .reg file and add this lines:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramewor\v2.0.50727\AssemblyFoldersEx\Chart Controls]

@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Chart Controls\\Assemblies"

And then run the reg file

• Run SQL Server Setup with administrator permissions. Right-click Setup.exe, and select Run as Administrator.
  • Click Installation on the navigation pane to the left.
  • Click New SQL Server standalone installation or add features to an existing installation.
  • In Setup Support Rules, click OK if no problems were detected. Otherwise, follow the instructions on the page to correct the problems and then restart setup.
  • Accept Agreement and Click Next
  • On the Setup Role page, select the Sql Server Feature Installation

  

  • In Feature Selection, Select the following features

    

  • Click Next, Next, Next
  • On the server configuration Click "Use the same account for all SQL Server Services"

    And enter the settings for the user DEVSOLAR\Fo-Dev-07-SQLService

  

  • Click the Collation Tab and click Customize and selecet Latin1_General From the Drop down for the Database Engine

  
  

  • Click Ok , and Next
  • Database Engine Configuration dialog. Click on Add Current User to ensure that you are a SQL Server system administrator.
  • Click "Add.." and add the user "Fo-Dev-07-SP-Farm"

  

  • Click Next , to the end of the wizard and install the server

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This topic is only for installing sql server with power pivot if you have no plans for applying power pivot services you should skip this step and proceed to the next step

SQL Server Installation Without Power Pivot

This topic is not working it ended up with some error at the end and the power pivot wasnt working … Still looking through it

• Login as a server and domain controller administrator

If you installed visual studio 2010 before this step you will need to do the following

Create a .reg file and add this lines:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramewor\v2.0.50727\AssemblyFoldersEx\Chart Controls]

@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Chart Controls\\Assemblies"

And then run the reg file

• Run SQL Server Setup with administrator permissions. Right-click Setup.exe, and select Run as Administrator.
  • Click Installation on the navigation pane to the left.
  • Click New SQL Server standalone installation or add features to an existing installation.
  • In Setup Support Rules, click OK if no problems were detected. Otherwise, follow the instructions on the page to correct the problems and then restart setup.
  • Accept Agreement and Click Next
  • On the Setup Role page, select the Analysis Services with SharePoint Integration option and then select New Farm from the drop down menu.

  

  • Click Next , Next, Next
  • On the New SharePoint Farm Configuration, enter YOUR username and password or the account you are using to configure your server, specify a passphrase that meets the standard password requirements, for example ‘Password1′, and leave the default port number or enter a port number of your choice.do-

  
  

  • Click Next, Next
  • On the server configuration Click "Use the same account for all SQL Server Services"

    And enter the settings for the user DEVSOLAR\Fo-Dev-07-SQLService

  
  

  • Click the Collation Tab and click Customize and select Latin1_General From the Drop down for both the Database Engine and Analysis Services

  

  • Click Ok , and Next
  • Database Engine Configuration dialog. Click on Add Current User to ensure that you are a SQL Server system administrator.
  • Click "Add.." and add the user "Fo-Dev-07-SP-Farm"

  

  • Click Next
  • On the Analysis Services configuration page, click Add Current User to ensure that your account has access to Analysis Services
  • Click "Add.." and add the user "Fo-Dev-07-SP-Farm"

    

  • Click Next , Next

  

  • Next and Install

  

  For more information please visit this link

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1. Run the SharePoint Server 2010 Installation
2. Select Install Software Prerequisites
3. Press Next , Check I accept and Install

1. After that select "Install SharePoint Server"
2. Enter The Product Key and click continue
3. Accept Agreements and click Next
4. Select Server Farm

1. Select Complete and Click Install Now

1. It is very important to un check The box Run the sharepoint wizard and click close

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Accounts list

It is strongly recommended to create domain accounts and use them as service accounts.

For more information see this topic

You need to create at least the following accounts in Active Directory

My current naming scheme is Computer Name-Product – User Role

In my case i am using one account the farm admin account (Fo-Dev-07-SP-Farm )for all

The sharepoint services.

But you should create for every service a separate service account in order to meet least-privilege security best practice.

You should give a service account only the permissions needed by the service to work properly. E.g. the content access account only needs read permissions. Using the SharePoint Farm Account which is member of the farm administrators group as the content access account isn’t the thing I would do

Create Accounts

Steps to add users

1. Click Start , Administrative Tools , Active Directory Users And Computers
2. Select the folder you want to add user in and right click it add new user
3. Enter User Details , Click Next
4. Enter password And Uncheck User Must Change Password
5. Check User Cannot Change Password and Password Never Expires

1. Click Next and Finish
2. Repeat the same process for all the users

Assign Permissions

Setup administrator( Fo-Dev-07-SP-Admin )

1. You need to put the setup Admin account has to be a member of the administrators group on every server SharePoint should be installed
   1. Select Start , Administrative Tools , Computer Management
   2. Under System Tools – Local Users and Groups
   3. Right Click Administrators – Properties
   4. Click Add enter Setup Admin account (Fo-Dev-07-SP-Admin(
   5. Repeat the same steps for each server in the farm
2. The same above steps should be done to the account Fo-Dev-07-SP-Farm
3. Setup Admin account must be assign the following roles in the sql server : dbcreator and securityadmin. ( will configure that in the SQL Server Installation Step Later in this series )

Farm account ( Fo-Dev-07-SP-Farm )

The farm account is used for the following things :

1. "Configure and manage the server farm."
2. "Act as the application pool identity for the SharePoint Central Administration Web site."
3. "Run the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service."
4. In my case i am using the same account for the SharePoint services.

SQL Server service account ( Fo-Dev-07-SQL-Services )

You don’t need to assign permissions since they are assigned during installation of SQL Server 2008.

The SQL Server service account is used to run SQL Server and should be a domain account.

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1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.
2. In the features Tab Select Add Features
   
3. Select SMTP Server and Add Required Role Services

1. Click Next Next Install
2. After Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click (IIS) 6.0 Manager
3. Right click [SMTP Virtual Server #1] and choose properties
4. Select Access Tab and then click Relay
5. Click add
   1. IP address : 127.0.0.1 , click ok