Although some parts of the MDS installation process are thankfully just the standard Next, Next, Next as seen in a lot of Microsoft products, the configuration process, carried out using the Configuration Manager, requires some pre-installation planning.
The key areas to consider are:
Server topology
Database service account
Administrator account
We will now examine each of these next.
As we discovered in Chapter 2, Master Data Services Overview, Master Data Services requires SQL Server and also Internet Information Services (IIS) in order to function correctly. When planning for the installation, there are two basic server topologies to choose from, namely:
A distributed configuration can offer the benefit of increased performance, as server resources can then be dedicated to a particular...