SharePoint 2010 Farm Configuration Wizard
August 27, 2010 by rvajaria
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I used it several times and was not sure if I want to run that in the production environment. Everybody at SharePoint Best Practices conference this week anonymously mentioned that NO – DO NOT USE THIS WIZARD IN PRODUCTION. It is the worst practice! It puts a very heavy load on the server unnecessarily. Best is to install Service Applications as we get ready for them and when business needs them.
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Best Practices Conference this year was great (today is the post conference day). The sessions were great! Quite informative from the people who are experienced working with SharePoint 2007 and 2010. All instructors were focused on highlighting:
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- What is the best practice
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- What is the worst practice
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- Trade-offs
Fantastic! There were a variety of topics for all – developers, administrators, project managers, IT Pros and so on. We all learn from our trial and error after reading on the technology. Participating in this (or similar) conference gives anyone an opportunity to get familiar with what other people have experienced faster than reading their blogs. This reduces the learning / exploration curve. Don’t do stuff that other experienced people (experts, MVPs, etc) have faced problems with.
This does not mean all participants would know all nuts and bolts SharePoint 2010. From our experience with during beta, testing, play around, and this conference, we have a pretty good idea how to avoid problematic approaches; and different ways to recover from melt downs.