2. Who is this Todd guy?
• WSS MVP since 2006
• Speaker, writer, consultant, Aquarius, President of Shane Young fan club
• Personal Blog
www.toddklindt.com/blog
• Company web site
www.sharepoint911.com
• E-mail
todd.Klindt@Rackspace.com
• Twitter me! @toddklindt
• NETCAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• http://www.toddklindt.com/netcast
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3. Who Am I?
• Shane Young
• SharePoint911, a Rackspace Company
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP
• Consultant, Trainer, Writer, & Speaker
• Shane.Young@Rackspace.com
• Blog
• http://msmvps.com/shane
• SharePoint Consulting
• http://www.sharepoint911.com
• Twitter @ShanesCows
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4. Four stages to a good install
• Don’t forget the forgotten Prereqs
• http://www.toddklindt.com/sp2013forgottenprereqs
• If you have any hot fixes, service packs, or language packs now is the
time to install them
5. Prerequisite install
• Adds IIS and application server role to Windows and configures them
• Downloads and installs all necessary software
• Can be manually downloaded and installed if no internet access available.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx
• Actually doesn’t work
• You can install from predownloaded location. Use /? To get syntax
•
• If you have already installed everything manually it will skip those
steps
8. Setup.exe
• Must be local administrator on all SharePoint Servers
• Must have SQL Server roles of dbcreator, securityadmin,
and public
• http://www.toddklindt.com/SP2013ServiceAccounts
9. Account name Role Domain rights Local SharePoint Server rights SQL rights needed
needed
sp_install Used to install SharePoint Domain User Local administrator on all public, dbcreator, and
binaries. SharePoint boxes securityadmin SQL roles. Need
to be SysAdmin on SQL when
installing the Workflow
Manager
sp_farm Farm account. Used for Domain User Local Admin during UPS None
Windows Timer Service, provisioning, log on locally
Central Admin and User right
Profile service
sp_webapp App pool id for content web Domain User None None
apps
sp_serviceapps Service app pool id Domain User None None
sp_content Default account used by Domain User None None
Search Service Application to
crawl content
1
sp_userprofile Account used by the User Must have Replicating Change None None
Profile services to access permissions to AD. Must be
Active Directory given in BOTH ADUC and
ADSIEDIT. If domain is
Windows 2003 or early, must
also be a member of the "Pre-
Windows 2000" built-in group.
2
sp_superuser Cache account Domain User Web application Policy Full None
Control
Web application super
account setting
2
sp_superreader Cache account Domain User Web application Policy Full None
read
Web application super reader
account setting
sql_server Account the SQL Instance is Domain User None Will be given necessary
running as. permissions when SQL Server
is installed by a local
administrator on the SQL box
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10. Account name Role Domain rights Local SharePoint Server SQL rights needed
rights needed
sql_ssas Account that we run the SQL Domain User None db_datareader on databases
Server Analysis Service
services as
sp_excel Excel services unattended Domain User None None
account.
sp_pps PerformancePoint Domain User None None
Unattended account
sp_accsvc Access Services. Used to Domain User None db_owner, public, and
create all Access databases securityadmin
in SQL and the service
account running the service
app pool for the Access
Service Application
3
sp_workflow The RunAs account for the Domain User None None
Workflow Manager service
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15. Additional servers?
• You can do servers 2 through N at the same time. They will take turns
adding themselves to the farm. No fear of deadlocks. Everybody
shares like they were taught in Kindergarten.
19. Host Named site collections (HNSC)
• Much more scalable than Web Applications (20 versus 1000's)
• You CAN use host names and HNSC
• http://teama.contoso.com
• http://contoso.com/sites/teama
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