When
you successfully complete the installation of any edition of SharePoint
2010, you will have a new program group on your Start menu called
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products. The program group contains the
three menu items shown in Figure 1.
Use this group to manage and configure your SharePoint 2010
installations or in the event you need to rerun the Configuration
Wizard.
1. Running the Farm Configuration Wizard
If you decide later that you
want to use the SharePoint 2010 Farm Configuration Wizard to install
and configure your service applications, you can do so from within
Central Administration. After you launch the wizard, you use the same
interface that appears during the Complete installation, which is
described step by step in the section titled Section 1.3
earlier in this article. However, in this case you will choose the
first option on the wizard’s opening page, Walk Me Through The Settings
Using This Wizard. After you select this option, click Next to display
the page shown in Figure 2. On this page, you specify the account that the services will use to operate.
Note:
BEST PRACTICES Use an account other than the SharePoint farm account for improved security of your farm.
In addition to specifying the services account, there are 15 service applications, listed in Table 1,
that you can choose from and specify that they be configured. By
default, all of them are selected to be configured except the Lotus Notes Connector. However, you can clear any services you won’t be using to improve the server’s overall performance.
Table 1. Farm Configuration Wizard Service Applications
| SERVICE APPLICATION | DESCRIPTION |
|---|
| Access Services | Allows viewing, editing, and interacting with Access Services databases in a browser |
| Application Registry Service | Provides backwards compatibility for Business Data Catalog API |
| Business Data Connectivity | Provides the ability to upload BDC models that describe your line of business interfaces |
| Excel Services | Allows viewing and interactivity with Excel files in a browser |
| Lotus Notes Connector | Search connector crawls data in a Lotus Notes server |
| Managed Metadata Services | Provides access to managed taxonomy hierarchies, keywords, and global content types |
| PerformancePoint Service Application | Supports monitoring and analysis of PerformancePoint Services such as storage and publication of dashboards |
| Search Service Application | Indexes content and responds to search queries |
| Secure Store Service | Stores data securely and associates it with a specific identity or groups of identities |
| State Service | Provides temporary storage of user session data |
| Usage and Health Data Collection | Collects farm-wide usage and health data and provides data reporting |
| User Profile Service Application | Provides support for My Sites, profile pages, social tagging, and other social computing |
| Visio Graphics Service | Enables viewing and refreshing of published Visio diagrams in Web browser |
| Web Analytics Service | Web Analytics Service Application |
| Word Automation Services | Provides framework for performing automated document conversions |
After making the required
changes, click Next to display a processing page that lets you track
the progress as the services that were selected are configured.
Note:
If there are problems
with the configuration of any of the services, you can complete the
remaining steps of the Farm Configuration Wizard and then resolve the
issues with the services that couldn’t be properly configured. Then you
can rerun the Farm Configuration Wizard, choosing those previously
troubled services. When you run the wizard subsequent times, you will
only be able to access the check boxes of those services that aren’t
already configured.
After the services
configuration completes, you are given the option to create a top-level
site collection using the Create Site Collection interface shown in Figure 3.
On this page, you can choose to skip or create the top-level site
collection for the website. If you choose to create it, you need to
provide the title, an optional description, and the website address or
URL to access the site collection. Finally, you choose which site
template you want to use to create the site collection from
approximately 20 default site templates provided.
After the site collection for your top-level website is created, you will see a final Farm Configuration Wizard page, shown in Figure 4, that lists the services that were configured as well as the title and URL of your top-level website.
After you run the
Farm Configuration Wizard in SharePoint 2010, you can access SQL Server
using Management Studio, and you will see the additional service
application databases that were created by the Farm Configuration
Wizard, as shown in the example in Figure 5.
