Service Account Configuration<\/h2>\n
Now that the Web Front End (WFE) and Application servers have been installed and configured, the next step is to correctly configure the service accounts.<\/p>\n
Open the Central Administration site and click the Configure service accounts link.
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<\/a>Service Accounts Link<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
From this page you can specify the domain user account that each service should run as. The available services that you can update the credentials for include:<\/p>\n
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- Farm Account<\/li>\n
- SharePoint Foundation Search<\/li>\n
- SharePoint Server Search<\/li>\n
- User Profile Synchronization Service<\/li>\n
- Web Application Pools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/a>Service Accounts List<\/p><\/div>\n
Update the account for each service to match those created in line with the table in the Active Directory Accounts section of part one of this post.<\/p>\n
Search Service Configuration<\/h2>\n
This section describes how to configure the search service.<\/p>\n
To manage the search service, go to the Central Administration site and click the General Application Settings link. On the next page, click the Farm Search Administration<\/em> link.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Farm Search Admin Link<\/p><\/div>\n
Next, click on the link to the Search Service Application<\/em>, which will load the Search Administration page.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Search Service Application Link<\/p><\/div>\n
The changes that should be made include specifying the default content access account, which is described in the Service Accounts<\/a> section. To do this, click on the link to the right of the Default content access account<\/em> heading.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Default Content Access Account Link<\/p><\/div>\n
Then within the popup window, enter the domain user account credentials that should be used.<\/p>\n
To update the contact email address, this time click on the link to the right of the Contact e-mail address<\/em> heading and enter the address in the popup dialog.<\/p>\n
A content crawl schedule is not configured by default. Click on the Content Sources link<\/em>, to configure this.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Content Sources Link<\/p><\/div>\n
Then on the next page, click the Local SharePoint sites<\/em> link.<\/p>\n
From the resulting page, scroll down to the Crawl Schedules<\/em> section. From here you can specify full and incremental crawl schedules for the local SharePoint site content.<\/p>\n
To create a schedule for full crawls, click the Create schedule<\/em> link immediately below the Full Crawl drop down list. Next, do the same for the incremental crawl. Ideally you want the full crawl to run once every day and the incremental to run every 30 minutes, of course this depends on the volume of data that will be crawled and how important it is to your business that content becomes visible via searches after approval\\submission.<\/p>\n
User Profile Service<\/h2>\n
Before configuring the user profile service, the first step is to ensure the synchronisation service has started. To do this, launch the Central Administration site and click on the Manage services on server link.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Manage Services on Server Link<\/p><\/div>\n
Also, ensure the selected server is the application server before continuing and then locate the User Profile Synchronization Service<\/em> entry in the list. To the right of the entry is a link titled Start<\/em>, click it to continue. If it has already started you can ignore the rest of this step and continue from the next heading – Configure User Profile Service<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Enter the domain user account to run the user profile service under. This is described in the Service Accounts section of this post<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Configure User Profile Service Account<\/p><\/div>\n
Click the OK button to apply the changes.<\/p>\n
After applying the changes, perform an IIS reset on the server and then return to the homepage of the Central Administration site. Under Monitoring<\/em>, click the Check job status link.<\/p>\n
On the page that loads, under the Running<\/em> section, look for an entry titled ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob<\/em>. It should have a status of running. Refresh the page every minute or so until the job has completed.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Running Profile Sync Service<\/p><\/div>\n
Next, go back to the list of services and wait until the User Profile Synchronization Service<\/em> entry has a status of Started<\/em> before continuing.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>User Profile Sync Started<\/p><\/div>\n
Once again, perform an IIS reset.<\/p>\n
Configure User Profile Service<\/h3>\n
To configure the user profile service, launch the Central Administration site and click on the Manage service applications<\/em> link.<\/p>\n
From the list of services, locate and click the link titled User Profile Service Application<\/em>.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>User Profile Service App Link<\/p><\/div>\n
On the next page, click the Configure Synchronization Connections<\/em> link.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Configure Sync Connections Link<\/p><\/div>\n
Click the Create New Connection<\/em> button. This will load a new synchronization page for the user profile service application.<\/p>\n
Give the connection a name. The name you give is not important.<\/p>\n
Enter the domain controller name in the Forest Name<\/em> text box.<\/p>\n
For the account, enter the User Profile Sync account, the same as that used when configuring the user profile service account from earlier.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>New Sync Connection<\/p><\/div>\n
Next, press the Populate Containers<\/em> button, select the containers you would like to synchronise and press OK. Ensure that you select only the users you want to synched otherwise it may take a long time to complete.<\/p>\n
Again, perform an IIS reset on the server.<\/p>\n
The last step for this configuration is to start a full profile synchronisation. To do this, go back to the User Profile Service Application<\/em> page – Central Administration -> Manage service applications -> User Profile Service Application.<\/p>\n
This time, click the Start Profile Synchronization<\/em> link.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Start Profile Sync Link<\/p><\/div>\n
Change to Start Full Synchronization<\/em> and click the OK button.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Start Full Sync<\/p><\/div>\n
The final step in the configuration of the user profile service is to setup the timer job. Do this by clicking on the Configure Synchronization Timer Job<\/em> link from the User Profile Service Application<\/em> page.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Configure Sync Timer Link<\/p><\/div>\n
By default, the timer is setup to run at 1am every day. If you want to change it, this is the page where you can modify it.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Enable Sync Timer<\/p><\/div>\n
Either way, click the button titled Enable<\/em> to enable the synchronisation timer.<\/p>\n
Outgoing Email<\/h2>\n
To manage the outgoing mail configuration, go to the Central Administration site and click the System Settings<\/em> link.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>System Settings Link<\/p><\/div>\n
Next, click on the Configure outgoing e-mail settings<\/em> link.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Outgoing Email settings Link<\/p><\/div>\n
In the Outgoing Email Settings<\/em> page, enter the relevant details for your environment.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Outgoing Mail Settings<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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