SharePoint Post Installation Steps for Trusted Sites and User Authentication

Having run the Products & Technologies Configuration Wizard, you’ll want to run up Central Administration to complete the configuration of your SharePoint installation. Depending on your environment you might need to perform these 2 additional steps before you launch Central Administration, otherwise you might find that IE starts complaining about trusted sites and you get the nag prompt to enter your Network credentials.

These instructions are valid for IE7 and IE8.

Add the SharePoint Central Administration site to the list of trusted sites

1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2. On the Security tab, select the “Trusted Sites” zone and click the Sites button.
3. Clear the “Require server verification (https:) checkbox for all sites in this zone” check box.
4. In the “Add this Web site to the zone” box, type the URL for the SharePoint Central Administration site, and then click Add.
5. Select the “Require server verification (https:) for all sites in this zone” check box.
6. Click Close.
7. Click OK.

Configure User Authentication settings for Trusted Sites

1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2. On the Security tab, select the “Trusted Sites” zone and click the Custom Level button.
3. In the Settings list box, under “User Authentication” (right at the bottom), click “Automatic logon with current username and password” or “Automatic logon only in Intranet zone”.
4. Click OK.
5. Click OK.

SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 Service Account Requirements

What service accounts do you need for a SharePoint / MOSS Farm installation, or a simple single-server installation on your dev box?

The answers are many and varied, and the documentation from Microsoft tends to be hard to read and convoluted to say the least – you really really really have to want to trawl through it to get the information you’re after

As far as what service accounts you need, whether they need to be domain accounts or local accounts you can find out from the documentation (obviously), having done that, you can decide to really go to town and plan an elaborate service account matrix or you can use just 2 accounts.

I’ve gone for a middle ground approach (unless needs demand otherwise) and planned a simple set of service accounts, reproduced here, which you can either use as-is for a simple farm deployment, or you can build on for a complex deployment.

I’ve also provided a link to the simplest, most readable document from Microsoft, that I came across while researching my own service account requirements.

Anyway, here’s the links;

• MOSS Farm Level Service Accounts Matrix.xlsx
• MOSS Farm Level Service Accounts Matrix.xls
• Office SharePoint Server Security Account Requirements.doc (from the Office Website)