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At the moment I read a lot about SharePoint configuration since I’m doing initial SharePoint configuration tasks. Here are two useful blog posts I have found.

Top 10 SharePoint Configuration Mistakes

This blog post lists the top 10 SharePoint 2010 configuration mistakes (applies for SharePoint 2013 as well). I recommend to read this post before start doing basic configurations! 🙂

Besides the well-known ‘don’t use the SharePoint configuration wizard’ it names 9 more configuration mistakes such as Default SharePoint Database Settings which slows down SQL performance (and therefore SharePoint as well).

Here’s the complete post: Top 10 SharePoint 2010 Configuration Mistakes — and How to Fix Them | SharePoint 2010 content from SharePoint Pro

SharePoint Configuration Management

Also very useful – not only for initial configuration but for configuration management in general – is following article: SharePoint Configuration Management: Guidelines and Tips.

It shows how to track changes of SharePoint configuration and which benefits such a approach has.

Here’s the complete post: SharePoint Configuration Management: Guidelines and Tips

Other Ressources

25 Mistakes to Avoid in SharePoint or Office 365 (and How to Fix Them): http://en.share-gate.com/blog/recording-dont-suck-at-sharepoint-avoid-common-mistakes

We want to do a SharePoint 2013 farm installation.
Do we need a installation wizard or are there any helpful guides in the internet? 🙂

Complete guide

As always the Microsoft pages are very helpful if you want a detailed or complete guide.
You can find the Microsoft guide on this page:

Overview of SharePoint 2013 installation and configuration: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee667264.aspx.

On this page you can find how to set up administrative and service accounts:

Initial deployment administrative and service accounts in SharePoint 2013: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662513.aspx

And here’s the section ‘Install’ itself:

Install SharePoint 2013: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303424.aspx

Quick guide

But you can find here a shorter guide that sums up the most important steps:

Install SharePoint 2013: http://sharepoint-tutorial.net/page/install-sharepoint-2013.aspx
(it is free; just click on the buttons at the end of the page in the section Next Step)

Planning your farm

For planning (not installation) see following post.

SharePoint 2010 – Architecture Best Practices | Purunep’s Blog: http://thomasbartsch.net/sharepoint-2010-architecture-best-practices-puruneps-blog/

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