Rolling out Central Admin and the Config Database and all the assoicated features

Stacy Simpkins

Here’s an oldy but a goody, how to get your Central Admin and Config Databases created without using the gray wizard.

Blog post inspiration –> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607838.aspx

This approach results in clean database names.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue


Write-Host "When prompted for credentials, give SharePoint the farm account, not the install account that you are signed in with, then provide the

passphrase, note: you will not be prompted for passPhrase if it is baked into the script" -ForegroundColor green

New-SPConfigurationDatabase -DatabaseName 2013_SharePoint_Config -DatabaseServer SharePointSQL -Passphrase (ConvertTo-SecureString "1Qaz2Wsx3Edc4Rfv" -AsPlainText -Force) -FarmCredentials (Get-Credential) -AdministrationContentDatabaseName 2013_SharePoint_CentralAdmin_Content -SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost

# Note: you can remove the “-SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost” if creating a 2010 farm and may want to change db names #

# Enter the port for Central Admin and the Authentication Provider if different than NTLM #

$CAPort = 5000

$CAAuth = "NTLM"

 

#Must use this order http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff806336(v=office.14).aspx##

 

Install-SPHelpCollection -All

Initialize-SPResourceSecurity

Install-SPService

Install-SPFeature -AllExistingFeatures

New-SPCentralAdministration -Port $CAPort -WindowsAuthProvider $CAAuth

Install-SPApplicationContent

New-ItemProperty HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa -Name "DisableLoopbackCheck" -value "1" -PropertyType dword

## Note you might not have an SCP in your domain, so you may want to exclude the next two lines ##

$ServiceConnectionPoint = get-SPTopologyServiceApplication | select URI

Set-SPFarmConfig -ServiceConnectionPointBindingInformation $ServiceConnectionPoint -Confirm: $False

Write-Host "Make sure to register the managed accounts for Service Apps and for Web Content before continuing with the 2013Install script" -ForegroundColor

Green -BackgroundColor Yellow

 

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