2.3. Advanced Server Farm Installation

Verify that your pre-installation preparations are complete. In particular, prepare the domain accounts that you plan to use for your SharePoint Services. Confirm that your server is a member of the domain. Make sure that you know the name (and possibly the instance name where applicable) of the SQL server that will contain the SharePoint databases.

Once you are prepared, make sure that you are logged in to the server where you will be doing the installation as your SharePoint setup account. (My example's is setupacct, or more accurately dem0tek\setupacct, because dem0tek is the fictitious domain for this book and setupacct is a domain user.) Or prepare to run the SharePoint installer using the setup account's ...

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