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Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2019

By : Lewin Wanzer, Angel Wood
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2019

By: Lewin Wanzer, Angel Wood

Overview of this book

Microsoft’s latest addition to their product range, SharePoint Server 2019, is a new enterprise content management platform that brings on-premise collaboration features to life. It can be used as an isolated platform or in a hybrid connected configuration providing management and connectivity to Office 365. You can use the SharePoint framework to host sites, information, data, and applications in a robust CMS that centralizes collaborative content for enterprises. SharePoint 2019 enables new integrations and features that will allow you to work seamlessly with new and old Office products such as Microsoft Power Apps and other Microsoft Office applications. Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2019 will help you understand the challenges, planning, migration steps, installation concepts, and configuration involved in providing this platform for your enterprise. The book will also show you what the platform brings to the table from an on-premise server perspective. If you’re new to SharePoint 2019, you’ll also be guided through how to get servers up and running so that you and your user community can become productive with this powerful new platform. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed in Microsoft SharePoint 2019 and have the knowledge you need to apply your skills in the real world.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

SharePoint MinRole resources

We talked about MinRoles and their importance in Chapter 2, Planning and Architecture. Assigning MinRoles at this point in our configuration is essential as we have two big service applications we left out previously: User Profile Services and Search Services. I have different reasons for leaving these for last, all of which will be explained in Chapter 6, Finalizing the Farm – Going Live, but to summarize, User Profiles require a server resource in order to run efficiently, as do Search Services. In our configuration, Search requires two servers for redundancy. We can only provide these resources by adding the servers to the farm, which we will do now. Distributed caches will come into play now as well.

Once you have installed SharePoint on all the servers you've created, as we stated in Chapter 4, Installation Concepts, we need to start adding them to the farm. Various prerequisites must be met on all the servers, including performing...