
<p>An Enterprise solution like Microsoft's SharePoint is easy to install. Easy that is, if you prepare your infrastructure appropriately. You need to prepare your administrative, domain and service accounts, set the SQL Server agent service account and configure the setup user account.</p><p>You then need to configure the SQL Server instances to listen on the correct port, configure the firewall and performance tune your Windows Server.</p><p>Finally you start the installation itself. You need to decide whether you want to install SharePoint in a stand alone server configuration or a server farm. You need to consider whether you want to set up application pools of web application collaboration sites, community or team sites.</p><p>You need to add apps for extra functionality. You can build apps for SharePoint itself, or if you prefer, go to the App Catalog or online store to install apps on the system.</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/complicated-sharepoint-loses-out-to-igloo-for-childrens-hospital-foundation-intranet-7000018179/">Keep reading...</a></p>