Back To All SharePoint Standards

When you are installing, implementing or even upgrading SharePoint it is important to keep these installation standards in mind to ensure a higher level of success, manageability and flexibility.

Naming

• Each new SharePoint content or service database must use a unique customized database name.
  • Each must also use a similar prefix so that it is clearer which are SharePoint databases in the advent you are using a Shared SQL instance.
• Ensure that each web application provisioned has a clear customized name for future reference.

Search

• Ensure that a specified Contact Email Address has been configured for Search.

Services

• Separate accounts must be used for different services and processes.
• No executing service or process account may be running with local administrator permissions.

SQL

• Use a SQL Alias when connecting to the SQL farm.
• Ensure auto shrink is turned off.
• Pre grow content databases to reduce fragmentation.
• Ensure MDF and LDF files are not stored on the system (windows) drive.
• Configure a SQL maintenance plan to check DB consistency.

References

• Plan for Administrative and Service Accounts – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445%28office.12%29.aspx
• Installation Technical Reference http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff806334.aspx
• Assign or Remove Administrators to a Service Application http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee704546.aspx
• Post Installation Steps for Search http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee808863.aspx

Am I missing an installation standard? Don’t agree with one? Please let me know in the comments.

Hope this helps,
Richard Harbridge