Installing SharePoint 2013 without screwing it up Installing and Configuring SharePoint 2013 (too badly) Without Screwing It Up (Too

Badly)

Todd Klindt SharePoint Nerd Rackspace Todd.klindt@Rackspace.com

Who is this Todd guy?

WSS MVP since 2006 Speaker, writer, consultant, lover of cheese Personal Blog www.toddklindt.com/blog Company web site www.sharepoint911.com E-mail todd.klindt@rackspace.com Twitter me! @toddklindt

Agenda
Start the farm build Talk about building the foundation Configure the farm Par-tay!

All slides, scripts, and a few pictures of my cat at http://www.toddklindt.com/SEF2012

Create the Farm

Foundation is laid (more on that later) Prereqs are installed
Even the forgotten prereqs http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2013forgottenprereqs

Bits are installed Use PowerShell to thwart GUID creation

Hurray!

Demo time

Lets build ourselves a farm

Hardware considerations
Can I squeeze this all into one box?
http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx 24 GB of RAM for SharePoint Server 4 Cores

I get by with 10 GB, barely

Laying down the foundation

The characters Windows Server 2008 R2 64 bit
Trial, http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/2008-r2-trial.aspx

Windows Server 2012 Trial

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_108_1_4

SQL Server 2012 64 bit

Trial, http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29066

SQL Server 2012 SP 1 CTP 4

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34700

SharePoint Server 2013 Preview

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx

Foundation goodies
Tweak Windows a bit Use DCPROMO to create an AD domain
Fiddle some domain and machine bits Create service accounts Create user accounts

http://www.toddklindt.org/PoshDcpromo tp://www.toddklindt.com/PoshMakeUsers

SQL
Install SQL 2012
Database engine and client tools Add a user to the administrators Set maximum memory Set the Max Degree of Parallelism to 1 Change Model database settings Add sp_install to dbcreators and securityadmins roles

SQLTweaks.sql
http://www.toddklindt.com/Slides/SEF2012/SQLtweaks.s ql

Creating the Farm

Use PowerShell to create the farm
New-SPConfigurationDatabase

Can use PowerShell for the rest or use the Wizard Check MAXDOP http://www.toddklindt.com/CreateFarm http://www.toddklindt.com/Slides/SEF2012/crea tefarm.ps1.txt

Configuring the Farm

Some PowerShell, some CA No Wizards! Similar to my SharePoint 2010 installation process
http://www.toddklindt.com/SP2010InstallGuidance

 Managed Metadata with PowerShell needs an extra kick

http://www.toddklindt.com/SP2013ManagedNav

Set up App Domain service with PowerShell

http://www.toddklindt.com/SP2013AppDomainPosh

Create Web Apps with PowerShell

http://www.toddklindt.com/CreateClaimsWebApp

Links and bits

My blog
http://www.toddklindt.com/blog

SharePoint 2013 specific blog posts

http://www.toddklindt.com/SP2013BlogPosts

Download this wonderful deck and all my scripts

http://www.toddklindt.com/SEF2012

Questions??

Tak!!
Todd.Klindt@Rackspace.com @toddklindt