For many, the SharePoint Configuration Wizard (SCW) is used for the first and last time during the initial setup of SharePoint. The purpose of this post is to provide administrators with additional information surrounding uses of the SCW.
The SCW can be used for the following:
- Configuring SharePoint for the first time: Once the SharePoint binaries are installed on a server, the SCW must be ran in order to setup the configuration database and the SharePoint Central Administration site.
- Updating/Patching SharePoint: After installing SharePoint patches, the SCW must be ran in order to pply the patches to the databases. When ran, the SCW will not have any options.
- Repair a SharePoint installation: There are two parts to repairing a SharePoint installation:
- Repairing the binary files from the Add Remove Programs (The SCW must be ran after)
- Running the SCW and selecting the following options (the binary repaid is not required):
- Do Not disconnect from Farm
- Do not remove the Central Administration site
- Disconnect a SharePoint server from a SharePoint farm: The SCW must be used when removing a SharePoint server from a SharePoint farm.
- Add or Remove the Central Administration site: The SCW can finally b used to add the Central Administration site to a second SharePoint server in a farm. This can be useful for redundancy.
The SharePoint Configuration Wizard is an essential configration tool for all SharePoint ebvironments. Administrators should not be afraid to run this tool since it does not affect content in the main databases.
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