28. Set up outgoing email, under Central Administration System Settings, Note: You need the Outbound SMTP  server and from/to SharePoint administrator email address as defined in the prerequisites 29. Optional - Set up incoming email, under Central Administration System Settings, Note: You need the  SMTP service setup locally on the Windows Server OS before this is done as defined in the prerequisites 30. Setup My Sites under Central administration Manage Services on Server User Profile Service   Application Setup My Sites. Fill in all the properties according to your farm requirements.  a. What you can do here at this is create a new web application to host your My Sites before configuring My Sites and point to it here b. Also, create a web application/site collection that will host your preferred Search Center and point to it here c. Under Site Naming Format, I always to be on the safe side, set it to use Domain and user name Web Server Install Now that we have the main Application server up and running, the next step is to add the web server and in fact any other server to the farm 1. Ensure all prerequisites from Hardware, Software, Miscellaneous and Service Accounts above 2. Make sure your media is available in the DVD drive of the server or accessible locally or a network share 3. Under Administrative Tools Server Manager Configure IE ESC, I normally turn it off for Administrators   4. Under Control Panel User Accounts User Accounts Change User Account Control settings, I normally set it to    Never notify 5. Run the splash page
28. Set up outgoing email, under Central Administration  System Settings, Note: You need the Outbound SMTP server and from/to SharePoint administrator email address as defined in the prerequisites 29. Optional - Set up incoming email, under Central Administration  System Settings, Note: You need the SMTP service setup locally on the Windows Server OS before this is done as defined in the prerequisites 30. Setup My Sites under Central administration  Manage Services on Server  User Profile Service Application  Setup My Sites. Fill in all the properties according to your farm requirements. a. What you can do here at this is create a new web application to host your My Sites before configuring My Sites and point to it here b. Also, create a web application/site collection that will host your preferred Search Center and point to it here c. Under Site Naming Format, I always to be on the safe side, set it to use Domain and user name Web Server Install Now that we have the main Application server up and running, the next step is to add the web server and in fact any other server to the farm 1. Ensure all prerequisites from Hardware, Software, Miscellaneous and Service Accounts above 2. Make sure your media is available in the DVD drive of the server or accessible locally or a network share 3. Under Administrative Tools  Server Manager  Configure IE ESC, I normally turn it off for Administrators 4. Under Control Panel  User Accounts  User Accounts  Change User Account Control settings, I normally set it to Never notify 5. Run the splash page
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