In Chapter 2, Planning a SharePoint Farm, you learned how to plan and design SharePoint Server 2016- and 2019-based farms. Selecting a farm topology using MinRole will help you lay the foundation for a successful deployment. However, that's just the beginning.

Up to this point, we've discussed the concepts of farms, roles, sites, and service applications, but haven't really seen them up-close or gone into their configuration. In this chapter, however, we're going to start configuring some components to make the SharePoint Server farm useful.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following topics:

• Configuring and maintaining core infrastructure to support a SharePoint deployment
• Deploying and configuring service and web applications
• Planning and configuring OneDrive/My Site access
• Planning and configuring...