Production and Farm Deployments

• Deployment section on TechNet
• Deployment model – Visio or PDF or XPS – TechNet
• Administrative service accounts required for initial deployment – TechNet
  Make sure farm account is in local admins group
• Configuring servers and services for a 3-tier farm – TechNet, step by step guidelines
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Win2008 R2 and SQL step-by-step – Andreas Glaser (very good)
• Life on the farm part 1: Installing and Configuring – guest post on Joel Oleson’s blog (Sept 2010)

Development Environments (i.e. may not be a supported config)

• Setting up a development environment for SharePoint 2010 – MSDN (updated post RTM, May 2010)
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on a single machine – UK MCS blog
• Installing SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows 7 (Powershell command to skip the need for AD)
• Installing SharePoint with SQL Server but without AD – Neil Hodgkinson, Powershell commands
• Installing SharePoint complete without AD – Soren Nielson, how to fix Search after
• Installing SharePoint standalone on a DC:
  • SQL express is not supported on a DC, default set-up will fail
  • Run from command line: setup.exe /config FILES\SETUP\config.xml

SharePoint and Small Business Server 2011

• Expect to have ‘fun’: Recreate your SharePoint Foundation 2010 application and content database, TechNet Mar 2011

Installation tips

• Don’t run the Config Wizard straight away. Check you’ve installed everything you need first. e.g. if installing Enterprise Edition, install OWA as well before running the config wizard.
• If using Powershell New-SPConfigurationDatabase (to install without AD), when prompted to supply user credentials, use format Servername\Username and use a unique account (i.e. spadmin)
• For demo VMs, to turn off IE enhanced security – go to Server Manager, click on Root, scroll down and click on ‘Configure IE ESC’

Security and Permissions

• Remember SharePoint groups cannot be nested. Windows Security groups can.
• Enabling anonymous access:
  1. In Central Admin, select Manage Web Apps,
  2. Select the Web App to be granted anonymous access and click Authentication Providers in the ribbon
  3. Click on Default zone and check box to enable anonymous access
  4. Click on Anonymous Policy in ribbon and set policy for anonymous access (e.g. deny write)
  5. In Site Collection, go to Site Permissions and click on Anonymous access in ribbon
• Kerberos issues. Need to configure Kerberos Delegation if multiple servers in farm and using Kerberos as server authentication.  Details: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Troubleshooting-Kerberos-SharePoint-environment-Part3.html

Content Databases

Easy way to map site collections to content databases within Central Admin (suitable for a small number):

• Central Admin – Application Management – Manage Content Databases
• Create the content databases you require
• Stop them all (take offline). Note: Doesn’t actually take the databases offline, people can still access SharePoint and create sites, lists and libraries. You just can’t create site collections when the database is offline in Central Admin
• Start the one you want to create a site collection for. Create the site collection. Then stop the database again
• Rinse and repeat for each site collection. Then start all the content dbs (choose Ready).

Alternate Access Mapping

Each web application must have either a dedicated IP, Host Header or Port number. The first two options require TCP/IP and DNS to be configured prior to create each web application. But you can then create alternate access mappings.

If using a different port per web application, to set up alternate mappings including on port 80, you have to do the following: